MPLAB® Harmony 3 Graphics Support Package

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MPLAB® Harmony 3 Graphics Support Package

MPLAB® Harmony 3 is an extension of the MPLAB® ecosystem for creating embedded firmware solutions for Microchip 32-bit SAM and PIC® microcontroller and microprocessor devices. Refer to the following links for more information:

This repository contains the MPLAB® Harmony Graphics Suite. The suite supports a free fast to market, graphics software development environment for Microchip MPLAB® 32-bit SAM and PIC® microprocessor devices. Refer to the following graphics links for release notes, home page, training materials, framework and application help. Graphics application examples can be found at various device-family specific repositories.

Features

The key features of the MPLAB® Harmony Graphics Suite are the following:

Hardware optimized for use with Microchip 32-bit SAM and PIC® devices
Compatible component for use with Microchip Harmony 3 Configurator (MHC)
Written in C with MISRA C (Mandatory) compliancy
RTOS and non-RTOS support
Configurable widget building blocks buttons, labels, lists, sliders, and images
Rich tool set: Heap Estimator, Event Manager, Palette generator, Asset Manager, String and Font interface, DDR memory organizer
Hardware integrated for Microchip GPU and display controller peripherals
Support for single and double frame buffers
Multi-language font support
External input support for use with capacitive, resistive and other devices
UI design editor for what-you-see-what-you-get (WYSWYG) graphics layouts
Fluid-UI support for alpha-blending, animations, scaling
Pixel format support for RGBA8888, RGB888, RGB565, RGB5551, RGB332, GS8
Multi-image support for industry standard formats, compression choices, external memory accessibility
Fully functional demonstrations and quick-starts to enable new development
Low memory and low power configurable

Contents Summary

Folder	Description
Legato	Legato graphics library, drivers, applications, and tools.
Blank	Blank graphics interface for third-party graphics libraries

Legato Graphics

The performance improved graphics for MPLAB® Harmony Graphics Suite. Supports Microchip PIC32 and SAM microcontrollers.

Category	Item	Description
drivers	glcd	Driver for the GLCD display controller peripheral
	2dgpu	Driver for the 2DGPU graphics processor
	lcc	Driver for the LCC software display controller
	gfx2d	Driver for the GFX2D graphics processor
	lcdc	Driver for the LCDC display controller peripheral
	external controller	Driver generator for external display controllers
	ssd1963	Driver for the ssd1963 display controller
	ili9488	Display Driver for the ili9488 controller
	parallel_ebi	Interface to the parallel EBI registers
	parallel_portgroup	Inteface to the parallel portgroup registers
	parallel_smc	Interface to the parallel smc registers
	spi	Interface to the spi registers
library	legato	Graphics library
designer	legato MHGC	Harmony graphics composer for Legato

Blank Library Interface

Blank Library Interface - the library interface which easily allows a third-party graphics library direct access to the display framebuffer. Blank library applications are available at various device-family specific repositories.

Aria Graphics

The legacy graphics facilities for MPLAB® Harmony Graphics Suite. Supports Microchip PIC32 and SAM microcontrollers.

As of Graphics release v3.8.0, Aria Graphics has been deprecated and removed from this repository. A snapshot of all previously published applications, tools, middleware and drivers related to Harmony 3 Aria Graphics are available at this archive repository.