GOLDELOX

  • Custom embedded 4DGL graphics controller designed to interface with many popular OLED and LCD displays.
  • Powerful graphics, text, image, animation and countless more features are built right inside the chip.
  • Offers a simple plug-n-play interface to many 8bit 80-Series colour LCD and OLED displays.
  • GOLDELOX is not available for purchase from our online store. If you wish to purchase, please contact our sales team.

US$10.95

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GOLDELOX processor

The GOLDELOX processor is a custom embedded graphics controller designed to interface with many popular OLED and LCD display panels. Powerful graphics, text, image, animation and countless more features are built right inside the chip. It offers a simple plug-n-play interface to many 8bit 80-Series colour LCD and OLED displays.

The chip is designed to work with minimal design effort and all of the data and control signals are provided by the chip to interface directly to the display. Simply choose your display and interface it to the GOLDELOX on your application board. This offers enormous advantage to the designer in development time and cost saving and takes away all of the burden of low level design.

The GOLDELOX belongs to a family of processors powered by a highly optimised soft core virtual engine, E.V.E. (Extensible Virtual Engine). EVE is a proprietary, high performance virtual processor with an extensive byte-code instruction set optimised to execute compiled 4DGL programs. 4DGL (4D Graphics Language) was specifically developed from ground up for the EVE engine core. It is a high level language which is easy to learn and simple to understand yet powerful enough to tackle many embedded graphics applications.

The device offers modest but comprehensive I/O features and can interface to SPI, serial, analogue, digital, buttons, joystick and Dallas 1-wire devices. Provision is also made for creating complex sound effects for audible user feedback with an extended RTTTL tone generator.

A basic system font is included, and unlimited customisable fonts with fixed or proportional spacing can be created using the Workshop 4 IDE. The chip-resident display driver libraries implement and share the same high-level functional interface. This allows your GUI application to be portable to different display controller types.

The 4D Workshop4 IDE is FREE and there is no licensing requirement.

Information about the processor

  • Low-cost OLED, LCD and TFT display graphics user interface solution.
  • Ideal as a standalone embedded graphics processor or interface to any host controller as a graphics co-processor.
  • Connect to any colour display that supports an 80-Series 8 bit wide CPU interface. All data and control signals are provided.
  • Built in high performance virtual processor engine (EVE) with an extensive byte-code instruction set optimised for 4DGL, the high level 4D Graphics Language.
  • 10K bytes of flash memory for user code storage and 510 bytes (255 x 16bit vars) of RAM for user variables.
  • 2 x GPIO ports supports:1 x 32bit free running system timer with 1msec resolution.4 x 16bit user timers with 1msec resolution
    • Digital I/O
    • A/D converter with 8/10 bit resolution
    • Complex sound generation
    • Dedicated RTTTL tune engine
    • Multi-Switch Joystick
    • Dallas 1-Wire
  • Asynchronous hardware Serial port with auto-baud feature (300 to 256K baud).
  • Hardware SPI port interface for SD memory cards or Serial Flash memory chips for storing of icons, images, animations, etc.
  • Comprehensive set of built in high level 4DGL graphics functions and algorithms that can draw lines, circles, text, and much more.
  • Display full colour images, animations, icons and video clips.
  • 8×8 built-in system font and support for unlimited user customisable fonts with fixed or proportional spacing with the aid of a freely provided Font-Tool.
  • Single 3.3 Volt Supply @12mA typical.
  • Available in a tiny 6mm x 6mm 28pin QFN.
  • RoHS Compliant

The GOLDELOX includes the following items:

  • GOLDELOX Processor

SPECIFICATIONS

Controller

GOLDELOX

Operating Ambient Temperature

-40°C to +80°C

Storage Temperature

-40°C to +80°C

Module Dimensions (mm)

6.00 x 6.00 x 1.00

RoHS?

Yes

Country of origin

Australia

CCCN / tarif code

85423991

ECCN export control code

EAR99

TARIC Code

8542311000

AHECC Code

85423991

Product Weight (g)

11

Weight with Packaging (g)

11

REACH

Yes

CE Mark

Yes

Supply Voltage

3.0V – 3.6V DC

Supply Current

~12mA

Processor Capability

210K Pixels / second

Flash

10KB

RAM

510 bytes

I2C

No

GPIO

2 x GPIO

SPI

1 channel

IDE

4D Workshop4 IDE

Serial Speed

300 to 256K baud

Serial Interfaces

1

8-bit Parallel Transfer

No

SIZE & WEIGHT

Viewing Area: N/A

Module Width: 6.00 mm

Module Height: 6.00 mm

Module Depth: 1.00 mm

Module Weight: 11 g

WORKSHOP4 IDE

Workshop4 is a comprehensive software IDE for Microsoft Windows that provides an integrated software development platform for all of the 4D family of processors and modules. The IDE combines the Editor, Compiler, Linker and Downloader to develop complete 4DGL application code.

All user application code is developed within the Workshop4 IDE.

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS THAT SUITS ANY APPLICATION & USER LEVEL

Workshop4 includes four development environments for the user to choose based on application requirements or even user skill level.

WORKSHOP4 PRO

Make complex widget design, simple.

Smart Widgets Editor is a powerful utility which enables the generation of Smart Widgets.

  • Users can create complex widgets with up to six layers, including the layer for the base image. The order of the layers can be arranged as desired.
  • Each layer can contain one or more images arranged in sequence that can be manipulated in a variety of ways. Image manipulation options include horizontal motion, vertical motion, and angular motion. Additionally, the transparency of a layer can be set.
  • Two or more layers can be linked to produce synchronized movements of images. This enables the generation of complex widgets with multiple moving parts. Clockwork feature is also supported. This enables users to quickly generate clock widgets.
  • Each layer can have a numeric part which can display numbers in various fonts and formats. Alternatively, the numeric part can be a fixed sequence of text.
  • The output frames can be utilized using any of the supported Workshop4 environments.

GENIE MAGIC

Genie Magic is an extension to ViSi-Genie, which is available in Workshop4 PRO. Genie Magic allows the User to add 4DGL code to various points in the ViSi-Genie backend code, which allows Users to take full advantage of the power of 4DGL, while retaining the speed and convenience of ViSi-Genie and its defined communication protocol.

Genie Magic allows you to enter 4DGL code in the form of Events, Code and Objects, along with various touch related additions too, giving you to the power to achieve advanced GUI’s in ViSi-Genie without having to write the full code yourself.

Genie Magic is fully supported by the genieArduino and geniePi libraries, making communication with an Arduino or Raspberry Pi host even more powerful.

When using Genie Magic in combination with the Smart Widget Editor, it is possible to use the Smart Widgets Editor tool and Smart Widgets to create other graphical user interface elements such as:

  • Dropdown Menu

  • Side Menu

  • ‘Carousel Slider’

  • List Box

  • Dock Menu
  • Quarter-Rotary Menu

  • Fading Slide-To-Unlock Button

  • Spectrum With Transparency

  • And Many Others

DOWNLOADS

Compatibility:

Workshop4 is a Windows-only product. It is compatible with Windows 8 through to Windows 11.

Note some older OS such as ME, Vista, XP and 7 have not been tested for some time and are not supported by Microsoft anymore; however, they may still work.
Legacy support updates for the older OS may not be possible, depending on what issues are found. For best results, run a current Windows OS.

It is possible to run Workshop4 under a VM on Linux or Mac. However, it is up to the User to set this up.

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GOLDELOX

  • Custom embedded 4DGL graphics controller designed to interface with many popular OLED and LCD displays.
  • Powerful graphics, text, image, animation and countless more features are built right inside the chip.
  • Offers a simple plug-n-play interface to many 8bit 80-Series colour LCD and OLED displays.
  • GOLDELOX is not available for purchase from our online store. If you wish to purchase, please contact our sales team.

US$10.95

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