“TouchGFX, which has both cost-effectiveness and user-friendliness, is well-received worldwide”

TouchGFX Designer, a user-friendly interface for implementing GUI without complex coding
Free solution… Provides economic benefits to businesses… Highly rated for cost efficiency

[Editor's Note] STMicroelectronics (hereinafter referred to as ST) is hosting the 'STM32 Quest: 2024 University Developer Contest (GFX & Wireless)' for college students. The theme for 2024 is 'Implement your own ideas using ST's GUI and Wireless'. As it is held for college students, it is also meaningful in terms of fostering future engineers from the perspective of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) that ST emphasizes. During the period, ST marketers will provide webinar sessions on GFX & Wireless solutions, and STM32 development boards will be distributed to students to provide them with the experience of developing their own creative projects. We met with Alexandre Renoux, ST’s marketing manager for TouchGFX, the core of the STM32 Quest, to learn more about TouchGFX.

▲ Alexandre Renoux, Marketing Manager for ST TouchGFX Product Line

■ Introduction to the TouchGFX Development Board

The key selling point of the TouchGFX development board is that it features an STM32 MCU.

This MCU has ample internal memory, providing excellent storage capacity to store various programs internally without the need for separate external memory.

Development of memory-intensive graphic applications can also proceed without any problems.

It is equipped with a 5-inch display for GUI implementation, and additionally, an external OctoSPI flash memory with a capacity of 128 MB can be used if a lot of images and various character displays including Korean are required.

I highly recommend the TouchGFX development board (STM32U5G9J-DK2) as it allows you to create an effective GUI prototype.

■ What are the biggest differences and special features of TouchGFX?

Every year, our Danish development team comes up with new and useful features.all.

One of the biggest advantages of TouchGFX Designer is its user-friendly interface, allowing you to easily implement GUIs without complex coding.

Additionally, various image compression options and vector graphics support can significantly reduce memory usage.

This allows TouchGFX to run effectively even on low-cost MCUs, making it applicable to a wide range of products.

■ What applications is TouchGFX targeting and what is the market response?

TouchGFX targets a wide range of applications.

It can be said that we have the ability to manufacture products in every industry except the automobile industry.

For example, various products such as household electronic products, beauty devices, industrial graphical user interfaces (GUIs), smartwatches, and home automation control devices have already been mass-produced and released to the market.

Overall, we've had very positive feedback about TouchGFX from various regions around the world.

Another reason for its high rating is that it is a user-friendly solution.

Additionally, it offers economic benefits to businesses as the solution is provided free of charge, making it a cost-effective option.

Meanwhile, in Korea, its recognition is gradually increasing in the consumer market.

Korean language support is a key factor in our success, with a Korean version of the TouchGFX User Manual website enabling more users to use the website. A representative example is the ability to effectively utilize ST's solutions.

■ What we want from STM32 Quest participants

We hope that you will experience ST's user-friendly yet powerful development environment and the latest technologies in UI and wireless connectivity, and let your creative ideas run wild.