4D Systems - GOLDELOX SGC/GFX2

The GOLDELOX SGC/GFX2 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 color 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 processor is designed to operate under two different software platforms: SGC serial command or GFX2 (4D Graphics Language).

GOLDELOX SCG/GFX2 features:

• Low-cost OLED/LCD display graphics user interface solution.
• Ideal as an embedded slave graphics processor.
• Serial interface to any host micro-controller.
• Connect to any color display that supports an 80-Series 8 bit wide CPU interface. All data and control signals are provided.
• Single 3.3 Volt Supply @12mA typical.
• Available in a tiny 6mm x 6mm 28pin QFN.

GOLDELOX SGC firmware specific features:

• Comprehensive set of built in high level graphics functions and algorithms that can draw lines, circles, text, and much more.
• Display full color images, animations, icons and video clips.
• Supports all available Windows fonts and characters (imported as external fonts).
• Multiple switch/button feature on a single pin.
• Dedicated sound pin with complex sound generation.
• Hardware and software interface for SD, micro-SD or MMC memory cards for multimedia storage and data logging purposes.
• Asynchronous hardware serial port with Auto-Baud feature.

GOLDELOX GFX2 firmware specific features:

• Built in high performance virtual processor engine (EVE) with an extensive byte-code instruction set optimized for 4DGL, the high level 4D Graphics Language.
• 2x GPIO ports supports:
  • Digital I/O
  • A/D converter with 8/10 bit resolution
  • Complex sound generation
  • Dedicated RTTTL tune engine
  • Multi-Switch Joystick
  • Dallas 1-Wire
• 10K bytes of flash memory for user code storage and 510 bytes (255 x 16bit vars) of RAM for user variables.
• 1x 32bit free running system timer with 1msec resolution.
• 4x 16bit user timers with 1msec resolution
• 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 color images, animations, icons and video clips.
• 8x8 built-in system font and support for unlimited user customizable fonts with fixed or proportional spacing with the aid of a freely provided Font-Tool.