Nemoptic announces a low cost prototyping kit to evaluate and develop e-paper applications with its BiNem® LCD technology
A fraction of the price of comparable prototyping sets, the BiNem® Display HVGA Prototyping Kit allows system integrators to test the performance of Nemoptics’s bistable nematic Liquid Crystal Display technology and to develop applications for consumer and professional products using an e-paper display, inexpensively
Magny les Hameaux, France – February 1 2006 - Nemoptic, an e-paper display company for consumer and professional handheld devices, today announced that its BiNem Display HVGA (320x480) Prototyping Kit is ready for shipping. The BiNem® Display HVGA Prototyping Kit enables electronics manufacturers to test Nemoptic’s e-paper displays and to develop applications for a full-range of existing and new consumer electronic and industrial devices as well as office equipment. Potential applications include electronic shelf labels (ESL), Point-Of-Sale displays, e-books, e-newspapers, Ultra-Mobile PCs, e-dictionaries, industrial sensors, and mobile phones. Priced at the extremely competitive price of EUR 300 (approx. USD 388), the BiNem Display HVGA Prototyping Kit is currently being shipped to customers, worldwide.
“Nemoptics’ BiNem Display HVGA prototyping kit enables electronic engineers to get a real test drive of our technology on all kinds of e-paper display applications, existing and new,” says Thierry Emeraud, VP Sales & Marketing at Nemoptic. “They will find it easy to create and show images on a BiNem display, since this prototyping kit can be used either in a stand alone mode or interfaced with their own development platforms. We are confident that they will be impressed by the high optical performance resulting in unprecedented readability in reflective mode and the low power consumption of BiNem displays. The kit’s low price, one-eighth of the price of comparable LCD prototype kits, may also be an incentive for testing.”
The BiNem Display HVGA Prototyping Kit features a 4.8 inch, mid-to-high resolution (120dpi) black & white display that is mounted directly on a driving electronics board, which makes the module a convenient one-piece. This dot-matrix zero power display offers the highest contrast ratio on the market (greater than 10:1 at 120dpi), excellent readability in reflective mode at all angles, as well as fast-refreshing speed. There is a hardware interface in the form of a flat cable and a software interface that can adapt to most existing processors. It comes with specifications to help users determine what kind of signals they can use to write images on the display, when connecting on their own platforms.
“We have made significant progress in refining the industrial processes of our BiNem technology, which is enabling us to move steadily into manufacturing,” says Jacques Noels, CEO at Nemoptic. “At EUR 300, our BiNem module is further evidence of our capacity to design high-quality and reliable e-paper displays in different dimensions that are cost-effective to make. This is very satisfying for us.”
Interested parties can order BiNem Display HVGA Prototyping Kit online at www.nemoptic.com. In addition to the HVGA Prototyping Kit referenced BK2301, Nemoptic is proposing two other Kit models featuring different BiNem display designs: BK2101 (3.06” diagonal; 64x240 resolution) and BK2201 (2.7”; sub QVGA). “In this way customers can select the BiNem display design that best matches their application, “ Noels added.
About Nemoptic
Nemoptic is an e-paper display company that designs and manufactures superior-quality bistable liquid crystal displays (LCD) highly suitable for consumer and professional mobile devices. Unlike other e-paper LCDs in the market, Nemoptic offers a white screen, giving users the best image contrast and a remarkable screen reading experience, comparable to ink on paper. The company’s cutting-edge technology, BiNem® (Bistable Nematic), has application in a range of handheld devices, including educational e-books, e-dictionaries, e-newspapers, ultra mobile PCs, mobile phones, toys as well as electronic shelf labels. Nemoptic e-paper displays are recognized for their high resolution, zero-power consumption when holding images, fast-refreshing screens, and low-cost. They come in pure black and white and offer a large number of colors. Nemoptic leads in the development of bendable, full-color rendering e-paper displays.
Created in 1999, Nemoptic, headquartered near Paris, has raised more than 35 million Euros and operates a production unit in Sweden.
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