PoC – Emulation of LCD and TP for the LandTiger board

Hi, my name’s Gabriele Filipponi, I’m making this write-up to demonstrate a proof of concept I made a while ago to emulate the LCD and Touch Panel drivers.

As you know, Keil offers a lot of debug utilities to monitor the cores peripherals on board, but it certainly lacks the ones that we were getting used during the course ‘Architettura dei Sistemi di Elaborazione’ like for example the LCD and TP.

The emulation was achieved with a Python script and a library made by Keil’s developers named ‘UVSC.dll’ that offers a network based interface to control Keil.

For the demo I wrote a simple project that displays a RED background with a label in the center ‘LCD Emulation’ and two buttons at the bottom:

  • “Red”
  • “Black”

Depending which one you tap it makes the screen RED or BLACK.

Here it is the demo:

Demo of the Emulator