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Microchip Graphics Suite Harmony Documentation Package

MPLAB® Harmony 3 is an extension of the MPLAB® ecosystem for creating embedded firmware solutions for Microchip 32-bit SAM and PIC® microcontroller and microprocessor devices. Refer to the following links for more information:

• Microchip 32-bit MCUs
• Microchip 32-bit MPUs
• Microchip MPLAB® X IDE
• Microchip MPLAB® Harmony
• Microchip MPLAB® Harmony Pages
• MPLAB® Discover

This repository contains the Microchip Graphics Suite (MGS) Harmony Documentation. The suite supports a free fast to market, graphics software development environment for Microchip MPLAB® 32-bit SAM and PIC® microprocessor devices. Refer to the following graphics links for release notes, home page, training materials, framework and application help.

For feature-rich, professional Microchip Graphics Suite demonstrations and demonstrations from third-party graphics libaries, refer to user guides on Microchip Developer Help or search for "Microchip Graphcis Suite" on MPLAB® Discover.

Examples for display bring-up can be found at various device-family specific repositories

• Release Notes
• MPLAB® Harmony License
• Release Notes
• MPLAB® Microchip Graphics Suite Harmony User Guides

Features

The key features of the MPLAB® Harmony Graphics Suite are the following:

• Hardware optimized for use with Microchip 32-bit SAM and PIC® devices
• Compatible component for use with Microchip Harmony 3 Configurator (MHC)
• Written in C with MISRA C (Mandatory) compliancy
• RTOS and non-RTOS support
• Configurable widget building blocks buttons, labels, lists, sliders, and images
• Rich tool set: Heap Estimator, Event Manager, Palette generator, Asset Manager, String and Font interface, DDR memory organizer
• Hardware integrated for Microchip GPU and display controller peripherals
• Support for single and double frame buffers
• Multi-language font support
• External input support for use with capacitive, resistive and other devices
• UI design editor for what-you-see-what-you-get (WYSWYG) graphics layouts
• Fluid-UI support for alpha-blending, animations, scaling
• Pixel format support for RGBA8888, RGB888, RGB565, RGB5551, RGB332, GS8
• Multi-image support for industry standard formats, compression choices, external memory accessibility
• Fully functional demonstrations and quick-starts to enable new development
• Low memory and low power configurable
• Segmented LCD Controller driver

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