Marine Control, Navigation Systems and Instrumentation represent challenging graphics applications. Instrument Dashboard Clusters are standard in Marine applications. In addition, Marine Control Panel manufacturers strive to differentiate their products with the addition of useful functionality such as overlaying Radar and Navigation images and video overlays from integrated Camera equipment on the same display.
Through LCD-Pro, Lattice offers manufacturers of Marine HMI systems the ability to drive multiple types of LCD modules. LCD-Pro also enables integration of multiple video sources: Video Camera and DVI Video, in the same Video Input module. LCD-Pro’s ability to manage multiple layers of display information, including video, enables all information to be presented on a single screen.
LCD-Pro enables manufacturers of Marine HMI systems to dramatically reduce development time by being able to use the same controller for their entire HMI family, providing significant time-to-market benefits.
Alternative solutions usually offered to Marine HMI manufacturers are standard PC platforms with additional PCI boards to support plus additional equipment for video source multiplexing. LCD-Pro dramatically reduced product complexity and cost while increasing reliability due fewer connections, more compact design and better EMC Model.
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