SPI device

ILI9488 TFT

The ILI9488 TFT is an SPI device in the LabWired part catalog. Its catalog type is ili9488. It connects to the MCU over SPI. It has 14 pins. A registered peripheral model runs in the engine: the firmware talks to it over the real bus and gets device-accurate responses.

From the catalog: SPI pixels, D/C, CS, and RESET are simulated. COLMOD selects the wire depth (default and 0x66 are 18-bit RGB666 → RGB888 artifact). LED backlight and the XPT2046 touch header pins are not simulated.

Key facts

Category	SPI devices
Catalog type	`ili9488`
Interface	SPI
Pins	14
Datasheet	Ilitek ILI9488 datasheet

What LabWired simulates

What is simulated

Simulated device model

How it was validated

Built from the datasheet

ILI9488 TFT pinout

Power: VCC, GND
SPI: CS, MOSI, SCK, MISO
PWM: LED
GPIO: RESET, DC, T_CLK, T_CS, T_DIN, T_DO, T_IRQ

Pin	Electrical type	Function
`VCC`	Power input	Supply
`GND`	Power input	Supply
`CS`	Input	SPI chip select (CS)
`RESET`	Input	GPIO
`DC`	Input	GPIO
`MOSI`	Input	SPI data out of the MCU (MOSI)
`SCK`	Input	SPI clock (SCK)
`LED`	Input	PWM
`MISO`	Output	SPI data into the MCU (MISO)
`T_CLK`	Input	GPIO
`T_CS`	Input	GPIO
`T_DIN`	Input	GPIO
`T_DO`	Output	GPIO
`T_IRQ`	Output	GPIO

How to simulate the ILI9488 TFT in LabWired

Open the Playground at app.labwired.com and place an MCU board.
Add the ILI9488 TFT (catalog type ili9488).
Connect VCC and GND to the supply and ground of the board.
Connect SCK, MOSI and MISO to the SPI pins of the board.
Connect CS to the chip-select pin of the board, or to a free GPIO.
Connect LED to a pin that can output PWM.
Connect RESET, DC, T_CLK, T_CS, T_DIN, T_DO and T_IRQ to free GPIO pins.
Run the firmware. It selects the part and moves bytes over the simulated SPI bus as on hardware.

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Modelled from Ilitek ILI9488 datasheet.

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