The Pervasive Displays Library Suite is specifically designed for the Pervasive Displays e-paper screens, extension boards and development kits.

It provides a high-level interface to drive the e-paper screens with normal and fast update, supports capacitive touch and haptic feed-back.

Release 9 inaugurates a new structure based on drivers developed by Pervasive Displays.

The library supports the screens through drivers

• iTC monochrome with wide temperature and embedded fast update (film K),
• iTC monochrome with touch,
• iTC colour black-white-red-yellow (film Q);

the extension boards

• EPD Extension Kit Gen 3 (EXT3 or EXT3.1),
• Touch Expansion Board for EXT3 (EXT3-Touch) for EXT3.1,
• EPD Extension Kit Gen 4 (EXT4);

and the development kits

• EPD Pico Kit (EPDK-266), which includes a Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040, an EXT3.1 extension board and a 2.66" monochrome panel,
• EPD Pico Kit Touch (EPDK-271-Touch), which includes an EXT3.1 extension board, an EXT3-Touch expansion board, and a 2.71"-Touch monochrome panel with embedded fast update, and
• E-Paper Development Kit for Matter (EPDK-Matter), which bundles an Arduino Nano Matter, an EXT4 board and a 2.90" high-definition monochrome panel with embedded fast update and wide temperature.

Legacy release 8 supports the screens

• iTC monochrome with normal update (film C),
• iTC monochrome with embedded fast update (film P), and
• iTC colour black-white-red (film J).

Drivers

PDLS relies on drivers developed and maintained by Pervasive Displays.

The drivers are available at the Pervasive Displays GitHub page.

Drivers © Pervasive Displays, 2010-2025

Documentation

The documentation includes two documents:

• This Reference manual lists all the objects and functions, with details for their parameters and returned results.
• The User guide focuses on how to use the different libraries, with commented examples.

Additionally, the Pervasive Displays Technical Wiki provides a gradual introduction to the e-paper technology and how to use it.

Author

Rei Vilo

Date

21 Jan 2025

Version

903

Copyright

© Rei Vilo, 2010-2025

All rights reserved

For exclusive use with Pervasive Displays screens

• Basic edition: for hobbyists and for basic usage
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Consider the Evaluation or Commercial editions for professionals or organisations and for commercial usage

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• Viewer edition: for professionals or organisations
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