Compact Panel PC with 6.3" XGA Solutions

PANEL 6

The PIP with the Panel-6 option is a highly integrated robust packaged industrial PC with a special designed aluminum housing and an integrated TFT display. The PIP housing offers enough space to integrate hard disk and/or Flash disk, floppy and any PC/104 extensions. The PIP product range offers next to the standard PC functionality on-board special industrial features like 4x RS232 (RS485), USB, Ethernet, and Firewire (depending on selected model).

Panel-6 Specialities

The PIP product range is available with various processor technologies up to Intel Core 2 Duo. The special low power consumption design from MPL allows to operate the PIP family without fan or ventilation holes. Unique is also that the PIP products can be operated with 8 - 28VDC/48VDC. With the PIP product range there is no need for internal cabling as all is connected and ready for the customer.

XGA resolution
Touch option available
Compact, robust aluminum housing
Wide range of CPU boards

The PIP product is a unique industrial solution with a great flexibility to help to reduce the overall cost in your projects.

The Panel & Touch option gives the PIP product range additional functionality on very small space. The integrated panel is a TFT display with 6.3"-XGA resolution. The panel supports the design efforts of low power consumption. It offers excellent readability and brightness as required in industrial applications. The panel is protected with a hard coated and non-glaring glass.

If the application requires a Touch screen solution then this can also be integrated in the product without special wiring. The Touch screen surface is specially hard coated and has the non-glare feature too. The input can be done by hand or with a pen. Width the touch-6 option, a resistive touch screen is offered.

Technical Features Panel-6

LCD Options	LCD6XGA-1/-2
LCD Type	active TFT LCD, LVDS IF a-Si TFT active matrix
Display size	6.3 inch diagonal
Resolution	XGA (1024 x 768 pixel)
Color depth	16.2M colors
Brightness	250cd/m²
Contrast ratio (CR)	500:1
Viewing angle horizontal (left/right)	60° / 60°
Viewing angle vertical (up/down)	60° / 45°
Pixel pitch	0.126mm x 0.126mm
Backlight unit	bottom edge side 1CCFL type
Surface treatment	antiglare and hard-coating 3H
Operating temperature	0°C to +60°C

Touch Options	Touch6-1R	Comment
Type	resistive 8-wire touch screen	others on request
Surface	hard coating, antiglare treatment
Light transparency	79%
Controller resolution	1024 x 1024
Controller interface	standard over PS/2 optional RS232 or USB	touch and mouse simultaneous possible
Operating temperature	-10°C to +60°C

Housing Options	PANEL6-1A	PANEL6-2A
Surface	aluminum, externally powder coated	aluminum, externally powder coated
Case color	RAL5024 (other colors on request)	RAL5024 (other colors on request)
Protection class	IP51	IP51
Mounting option	DIN-Rail / Flange	DIN-Rail / Flange
Dimensions (W x H x D)	min. 270 x 162 x 82.5 mm	min. 270 x 162 x 120 mm
External interfaces	all external PIP CPU board interfaces (mouse, keyboard, Ethernet, firewire, serial, LPT,...)

Physical Features
Power supply	DC input from 8-28V
Power consumption	display & inverter 5W	add CPU board power consumption according datasheet
Humidity	10% - 90% non condensing
Operating temperature	see comment on individual components (LCD, Touch, CPU-board, HDD/flash...)

Wide range of CPU boards available
PIP CPU board matrix

Panel-6 Versions

Case options
PANEL6-1A	Standard 82.5mm high aluminum PIP-housing (internally chromated, externally powder coated), capable to incorporated a 6" TFT display, a Touch screen, any PIP board including HDD/Flash, RAM and expansion possibility of one PC/104 or one PC/104-Plus card.
PANEL6-2A	Standard 120mm high aluminum PIP-housing (internally chromated, externally powder coated), capable to incorporated a 6" TFT display, a Touch screen, any PIP board including HDD/Flash, RAM and expansion possibility of up to three PC/104 or PC/104-Plus cards.
LCD options
LCD6XGA-1	6.3" XGA (1024 x 768) TFT display, inverter for the LCD, cable connection between PIP and TFT all built together and connected into the PANEL6 housing. (for Celeron M or Pentium M PIPs)
LCD6XGA-2	6.3" XGA (1024 x 768) TFT display, inverter for the LCD, cable connection between PIP and TFT all built together and connected into the PANEL6 housing. (for Intel Core Duo PIPs), uses same LCD as LCD6XGA-1
Touch options
TOUCH6-1R	Additional 8-wire resistive touch option for the Panel6 Solutions (Touch is connected over Mouse-PS/2)

Touch Drivers

The following drivers are recommended or required if you have the Touch option installed:

Windows XP Windows 2000 Windows ME Windows 98	TSHARC UniWinDriver	6.20cs	UniWin Driver Manual
Windows CE 3.x	WinCE30 Driver	1.10	Driver Manual
Windows CE 4.0	WinCENET40x86 Driver	1.0	X86 Version
Windows CE Net 4.1 Windows CE Net 4.2	WinCE410x86 Driver	1.01	X86 Version
Windows XP embedded	WinXPE Driver	5.04	RS232 only
DOS	DOS Driver	3.3	Driver Manual
Linux	Linux Driver	2.02	XFree V4.3 and later

Further drivers are available from the Microchip homepage