What is ILI9488?
The ILI9488 LCD Controller is a 16.7M single-chip SoC driver for a-Si TFT liquid crystal display panels with a resolution of 320(RGB) x 480 dots. The ILI9488 is comprised of a 960-channel source driver, a 480-channel gate driver, 345,600 bytes GRAM for graphic data of 320 (RGB) x 480 dots, and power supply circuit.
How do I use TFT display with Arduino Uno?
Steps:
- Download the UTFT Library.
- Unzip the Library.
- Open UTFT\hardware\avr in case of Arduino or depending on the microcontroller used.
- Open HW_AVR_defines using Notepad.
- Uncomment Line 7 to enable UNO shield for MEGA.
- Save the file and Add this Library to Arduino IDE.
Is TFT or LED better?
Performance wise LEDs are far better than TFT and LCD displays. LEDs provide high contrast than LCDs/TFTs. In a LED display, you will see perfect black and perfect white which is not able to see in TFT or LCD. LED has a better viewing angle.
How to interface ili9488 LCD controller with Arduino?
The LCD is easily interfaced with Arduino SPI bus, and it needs minimum of four Digital IO lines. The ILI9488 LCD Controller is a 16.7M single-chip SoC driver for a-Si TFT liquid crystal display panels with a resolution of 320 (RGB) x 480 dots.
What is the ili9488?
It is based heavily on the Adafruit_ILI9341 library and is designed to work with the Adafruit_GFX library. I have made some heavy modifications, as the typical Adafruit TFT libraries are designed to work with 16bit color (RGB565), and the ILI9488 can only do 24bit (RGB888) color in 4 wire SPI mode.
Is 320×480 TFT LCD compatible with Arduino?
320×480 TFT LCD (SPI interface, ILI9488 LCD controller) = 1 No The TFT LCD (3.5 inch, 320×480 pixel, ILI9488 LCD controller), is used for this instructable. The LCD is easily interfaced with Arduino SPI bus, and it needs minimum of four Digital IO lines.
What is the difference between ili9488 and Adafruit TFT libraries?
I have made some heavy modifications, as the typical Adafruit TFT libraries are designed to work with 16bit color (RGB565), and the ILI9488 can only do 24bit (RGB888) color in 4 wire SPI mode. You can still use the library EXACTLY like you would for 16bit mode color, the colors are converted before sending to the display.