E-mail questions to Tom@csyslabs.com
Q. What's the delivery time for a designer kit.
A. Usually less than week after we receive your order. There are times when this could be extended to a few weeks such as when we are between production cycles and demand is high.
Q. What's the delivery time for production quantities.
A. That depends on the quantity and if you schedule deliveries. Normally, for quantities around 25 pieces, Three to four weeks is reasonable. Larger quantities could be in the six to 12 week time frame for an initial order with lead times getting shorter for subsequent deliveries.
Q. What's the interface card in the designer kit used for.
A. The interface card is an address decoder and bidirectional data buffer for the PC ISA buss which allows the example programs and your initial development code to be run in a PC environment. After your screen and button code is debugged you can port the code to your micro-controller.
Q. Is an interface card required in my final system design.
A. No, as long as you have hardware which will control the enable, read and write signals of the TVM inputs, the datalines can be directly (or through buffers) connected to your system data buss. See the data sheets for sample schematics.
Q. What technology is used for the touch panels.
A. The touch panels are a double layer of polyester with an Indium Tin Oxide coating which is etched to produce a X-Y matrix of conductors. When a switch is pressed a mechanical connection is made between the two layers which is then decoded by our controller card on the TVM unit.
Q. Can a display page be stored directly into the Touch Vision modules.
A. No, The Touch Vision modules are display and touch panel devices which receive instructions from a host micro-controller, PLC, PC or micro-processor. The instruction set is a high level lanquage which makes the creation of display data and the programming of buttons an easy task and the required code is very efficient and takes little memory space for a screen.