Pervasive Displays Library Suite - Basic edition

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

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

The PDLS_Basic edition supports the screens

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

the extension boards

• EPD Extension Kit Gen 3 (EXT3 or EXT3.1),
• Touch Expansion Board for EXT3 (EXT3-Touch) for EXT3.1,
• Pervasive Displays EPD Extension Kit Gen 4 (EXT4) and EXT4-to-Nano adapter boards;

and the development kits

• EPD Pico Kit (EPDK), 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 capacitive touch,
• E-Paper Development Kit for Matter (EPDK-Matter), which includes a Pervasive Displays EPD Extension Kit Gen 4 (EXT4) and a Pervasive Displays EXT4-to-Nano adapter boards, a Pervasive Displays 2.9″ 384x168 E-ink monochrome high-definition with embedded fast update and wide temperature display, an Arduino Nano Matter board based on Silicon Labs MGM240S.

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).

Features

The Pervasive Displays Library Suite provides a high-level interface to drive the e-paper screens.

• Normal and fast update
• Graphics routines
• Text routines
• Four extended fonts with double-sized variants

Documentation

• Pervasive Displays Technical Wiki
• User guide with commented examples
• Reference manual

Support

• Please refer to the PDLS_Basic repository for reporting issues and contributing pull requests.

Installation

Software

• Arduino IDE or Arduino CLI

• Installing Additional Arduino Libraries

  • Using the Library Manager
  • Importing a .zip Library

Hardware

• Connecting the Pervasive Displays e-Paper EPD Extension Kit Gen 3

Configuration

Software

• Arduino SDK
• SPI library
• Wire library

Hardware

• Pervasive Displays EPD Extension Kit Gen 3 (EXT3 or EXT3.1)
• Pervasive Displays EPD Extension Kit Gen 4 (EXT4)
• Pervasive Displays iTC black-white-red-yellow colour screens (film Q)
• Pervasive Displays iTC monochrome screens with wide temperature and embedded fast update (film K).

Licence

Copyright © Rei Vilo, 2010-2025

For exclusive use with Pervasive Displays screens

Licence Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)