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Embedded System Solutions Linecard PDF

Embedded single board computers ranging from 3.5” to 5.25” form factors. (PC/104, EPIC, ITX, PICO-ITX, RISC CPU Modules) All in one panel PCs and ruggedized enclosures.

TN, STN, FSTN, CST, TFT and OLD, semi-custom and full custom displays and modules. Vertically incorporated with factory integrated resistive and capacitive touch options, PCB fab and assembly.

Touch screens (4, 5, 8 wire resistive & PCAP), ranging from 3″ to 22″ suited for all consumer to industrial applications.

Front end, AC/DC, DC/DC, ruggedized, emobility, DC/AC power supplies

AC/DC, DC/DC, noise filter and switching power supplies

LCD controllers and accessories that produce display devices from high end specialist instruments to 24/7 signage displays.

TFT, CSTN, STN graphic, STN character & resistive / PCAP touch LCD displays.

LED drivers, drop-in replacement LED drivers and CCFL inverters.

Color TFT LCDs, highbright TFT LCDs, embedded displays, monochrome LCD & touch panels.

4-, 5-, 7-wire, single and dual-touch resistive touch panels, standard and custom projected capacitive touch, controller boards and microcontrollers.

Cost effective industrial LCD controllers & accessories for flat panel displays.

Full size CPU card, half size CPU card, back plane, industrial motherboard, embedded board, ETX/COM express/Q7 & TPM modules and industrial touchscreens.

Flat panel displays ranging from 3.5″ to 65″ in multiple resolutions and aspect ratios.

DRAM, DRAM modules, NAND Flash, NOR Flash, SSD Storage, Phase change memory and
hybrid memory cube.

AC/DC, DC/DC power converters.

World class heavy industrial TFTs, highbright & ultra bright models ranging frm 4.3″ to 19.2″.

OLED, TFTs, RGB displays, serial interface, LCD character, LCD graphic, LCD-COG modules & VF displays.

AC & DC fans, DC blowers and motorized impellers.

AC/DC, DC/DC, ruggedized, custom power supplies.

AC/DC and DC/DC power supplies.

AC/DC power supplies.

4-wire / 5-wire resistive, surface capacitive, fire-wire resistive, multi touch screens & projected capacitive touch panels.

Display flat flex, high voltage, inverter, shielded cables & cable assemblies.

Mobile, PC, monitor, large TV and digital information displays in sizes ranging from 3.5″ to 82″ with wide viewing angle.

Industrial Strength LCDs built to perform in environments ranging from factories to physician’s offices. Their durable construction, high contrast, high brightness, wide viewing angles, and high operating temperatures deliver high performance for your very toughest product demands.

TX, redundant, AC/DC, DC/DC, UPS power supplies, battery chargers, LED drivers, power cords and cables.

Computer hardware and peripherals.

AMLCD display products and solutions from both NLT Technologies, Ltd. and the Tianma Group.

Projected capacitive, resistive, surface capacitive, and custom touch screens.

Dot matrix character & graphic DC plasma & LED display modules.

One of the largest developer, designer & manufacturer of OEL (OLED-Organic Lighting
Emitting Diode) displays.

Medical

Medical Electronics manufacturers need highly reliable products that are going to be available for years to come. Our industrial LCDs, peripherals, and customization capabilities fit these requirements perfectly, and so are often featured in Medical electronic products. We also supply highly complex and reliable cable assemblies that are 100% made in the US.

WPGA supplies numerous products to Medical equipment manufacturers. From displays with integrated touch screens and open frame designs to complete subassemblies with displays, touch screens, cables, housings etc. WPGA also offers testing at all levels from incoming screening to final system test. WPGA has provided design assistance to many of our customers in the Medical equipment field. We can assist with designs for sheet metal parts, cables, incorporation of SBC’s, high bright panels, anti-glare, anti-reflection and all thermal considerations.

As many professionals in the medical imaging field know, monochrome CRT displays are unsurpassed when it comes to displaying grey scale pictures. We offer ultra high resolution LCD products for use as replacements to the older CRT technologies. WPGA offers CRT replacements that will keep your legacy systems up and running.

On the other end of the spectrum, we also offer full color LCD upgrades for aging equipment. Used in thermal imaging, CT scans, and life support equipment, as well as in many other applications, imaging displays spend large amounts of time running. This can dramatically reduce the expected life of your display, leading to costly downtime, administrative headaches, or even put a patient’s life in jeopardy. With a life of 50 000 hours, if our displays were run for 24 hours a day, every day of the year, they would last for over 5 and a half years! As with our CRT options, our LCD replacements keep all of the required medical approvals in place, which eliminates the need to seek out brand new equipment.

Military

WPG Americas’ LCD solutions program really performs in the Military Electronics industry. We supply the highest quality LCD panels with many different options including high-brighting, sunlight readability, NVIS, low EMI and much more. We also provide American made cable assemblies that meet multiple military specifications, and components that help meet the low power demands of mobile devices.

WPGA has supplied displays for use in various Military applications including simulators and ruggedized laptops. WPGA is ISO 9000 and AS9120 certified, taking special note that we are also ITAR certified which makes us the perfect partner to our Military and Avionics customers. We can supply bonded panels that will meet the requirements of rapid temperature and pressure changes

as well as shock and vibration requirements. WPGA also has a demonstrated NVIS capability which can be incorporated into airborne, ground based and hand held displays. These combined with touch screen integration and complete black box builds allows WPGA to provide total solutions to all our Military customers.

WPGA understands the unique need placed on military personnel and equipment. This calls for tough display products that can stand up to the harshest of conditions. Our military grade display products are ruggedized, with damage resistant touch screens. These ensure that dust, dirt, oil and water will not damage the screen or the electrical components housed within. Wide viewing angles ensure that everyone within a vehicle will be able to read the display. We offer rugged monitors that can be used in Army, Air Force, Naval, and other applications. In addition to our work with specific military standards, we maintain ISO 9001 certification for quality management systems, follow ITAR regulations and implement leading-edge technical innovations.

Aerospace 

WPG Americas has a proven record of supplying the aerospace market with in flight entertainment displays for both commercial and private aircraft. Our Quality Systems allows us to design and manufacture high quality products for the aerospace industry. We have designed and manufactured cabin lighting controllers which incorporate a display, touch sensor, cabling and all electronics into a single housing.

Marine

Marine displays are used in outdoor environments, often in direct sunlight. For this reason, high bright and wide operating temperature solutions are important for marine monitors to be legible in the sunlight. Our LCDs and peripherals are designed to offer crisp images, even in direct sunlight. At WPGA Displays, we have three display technologies that work well in direct sunlight: Super bright LED backlit displays, optical bonding and ruggedized touch technologies.

In addition to having a sunlight readable display, a good marine solution has to be able to withstand exposure to the elements. Our experience in military applications has led to designs created with severe environments in mind. Our displays and peripherals are able to operate over a wide temperature range and in the harsh conditions typically experienced by marine displays.

Industrial Controls

Industrial electronic machinery often needs to be ruggedized and highly accurate. Whether it’s for factory automation or for mobile products out in the field, we have tough components that meet and exceed these requirements. From heavy duty, highly specific cable assemblies and wire harnesses, to ruggedized LCDs with touch screens, or specialized tapes and adhesives, we have quite a few products that would fit perfectly inside the best industrial electronic machinery.

The industrial market represents a large segment of today’s display market. WPGA supplies displays for many industrial applications; for example, we provide multiple size displays with integrated touch screens for use on machining center controls.

We also supply displays that are used in industrial scales as well as lens grinding equipment. WPGA enhanced displays can also be utilized in a farm equipment, navigation and control system. WPGA is a leader in the industrial displays and controls market. We have expanded our display module and product offerings to include AMLCD, Passive character and graphic LCDs, OLED and electroluminescent displays. These products are complemented by a full line of accessories and display interfacing hardware.

Digital Signage

WPGA display solutions have been installed in major airports across the country for use in advertising applications. WPGA has installed video walls for security / emergency surveillance, in store displays and advertising / information displays in Casinos. We can provide local and remote content control for a single display panel to any size matrix of panels to form the desired size video wall. WPGA has taken video walls from concept through installation including video, audio, structural and power requirements as well as thermal considerations. We have also supplied outdoor displays for the fast food industry.

Automotive

The automotive industry presents a unique set of challenges for electronics including being able to withstand high levels of motion, heat and long lifetime requirements. Well, we supply DRAM, relays, capacitors and more components specifically engineered for the automotive industry. Our LCDs are also a great fit in vehicles or on subway platforms as well. Remember we are classified as a woman-owned small business and the automotive industry has numerous supplier diversity programs honoring tier 1 and tier 2 suppliers.

WPGA has supplied the transportation industry with a variety of display solutions. We have run the gamut from airborne entertainment systems to information displays used in police cruisers, to displays for major metropolitan mass transit systems.

WPGA can supply everything from a standard out of the box display to a fully customized unit that may be high bright, ruggedized or have enhanced optical performance.

Gaming

The gaming industry has been serviced by WPGA Display Solutions for many years. We have manufactured a hand held bingo device which includes an SBC, LCD & touch screen integrated into a hand held device. We have provided displays for use in automated card tables and have designed slot machine upgrade kits.

Test & Measurement

The test and measurement market faces unique challenges by the very nature of the application. Test and measurement design engineers rely on WPGA Displays and Solutions to be able to supply a wide breadth of LCD and OLED selection and identify opportunities to create feature rich, high value solutions.

Because the use of LCDs is expanding so rapidly in the test and measurement market, customers are also looking for a single supplier partner like WPGA to ease the burden of sourcing from multiple vendors. WPGA recognizes that there are many niches within the test and measurement market that have difference requirements.

Standard LCD display offerings can be the simple solution to what is often the greatest challenge to the most visible and important part of the product, the users interface. Increasingly design engineers are finding that many standard, off-the-shelf display technologies do not meet all of their needs and recognize that a total engineered solution will offer the best result for more complex design needs and enriched feature options. WPGA specializes in adding value to a customer design by creating such solutions.

Consumer

Consumer displays and the products market is probably one of the most challenging of the business sectors. It is a mix of domestic and international requirements and trends. As one of the fastest moving and most technologically demanding markets you must have access to bleeding edge tech. WPGA has a very solid consumer grade offering of displays yielding our customers access to the sharpest most innovative displays without breaking the bank. These markets include television sets (TV), set-top boxes (STBs), media players, digital cameras, white goods, and high-demand personal electronic devices, etc, etc.

Optical Bonding

Optical bonded displays offer optical characteristics and mechanical robustness superior to any other solution.

Optically bonded “cover glass” can be any number of materials such as glass, polycarbonate, acrylic, touch screens, or other optically clear overlay material placed in front of the LCD. Integrated ITO Heaters and EMI/RFI shielding can be included in the bonding process if needed, providing a product that is complaint to the most extreme of requirements.

Benefits of Optical Bonding include:

• Improved Optics and Glare Reduction – Optical bonding reduces or eliminates reflection from internal and external light sources. When combined with Anti-Reflection front surface it is possible to dramatically reduce glare and increase light transmission from the assembly yielding a most satisfying and accurate viewing experience.

• Protection of the display – Displays typically have a polarizer that is a soft plastic material as the front surface. The front surface is easily scratched, even from routine cleaning. With optical bonding a protective “cover glass” is placed on the display. The optically bonded display can be further built into a system which is weatherproof, in fact we have had products which were bonded for use by divers under water.

• Safety – An optically bonded display can help contain materials in the event of breakage (an impact directly to the display or crash in a vehicle). This is well suited for transportation application and is also used in zero gravity spacecraft. A display that is easily read is also a benefit where the driver/operator heads to look away momentarily to read a display before focusing back on driving or the task at hand.

• Reduced Power – In a high ambient brightness environment an optically bonded display will allow you to turn down the installed backlight system. In fact in a sunlit environment going from 12% to 1.5% reflection will have the same effect on contrast ratio as going from 500 nits to 3500 nits. The results not only in a savings in power consumption, but also less heat is generated which must be removed from the assembly.

• Ergonomics – A display with reduced glare and sharp clear image reduces eyestrain and is essential for those whom make their living from behind the LCD. The American Optometric Association lists glare as a contributor to Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) and reducing glare is effective in reducing the effects of CVS.

• Dust and Moisture – By eliminating the gap between the LCD and the cover glass this area can no longer be a place where dust and moisture collect.

• Vision and Mechanical Shock – It has been demonstrated that an optically bonded display is superior at resisting the effects of vibration and mechanical shock.

Markets / Applications Using Optical Bonding

• Military
• Avionics
• In-Flight Entertainment
• Medical
• Digital Signage
• Marine
• Industrial
• Control Room
• Transportation/Automotive
• Consumer

Optical Enhancements

After optimizing the optics of the front of the display by reduing reflections from all materials between the display image and the viewer through AR Films, Optical Lamination and Optical Bonding the next place to focus for improvement is the backlight of the LCD.

Passive Backlight Enhancements

Many LCD displays can benefit from passive enhancements utilizing more efficient light diffusing films in the optical path and through focusing the existing light emitted from the display to the designed eye position. Passive Enhancements alone can almost double the light output of many displays.

Two of our main tools in passive enhancements is 3M Brightness Enhancement Films (BEF) and Dual Brightness Enhancement Films (DEEF). The BEF materials works by focusing light to the viewer, and the DEEF film is a reflective polarizer which actually recycles the light which would otherwise be attenuated by the rear polarizer of the display.

LED Backlights and Active Enhancements

Interactive Display Solutions Inc. can design and provide almost any commercially available display in an LED version. LED backlights provide more brightness with less power, are operational over a wide temperature range with no warm up time (instant on in all conditions), and being solid state are more robust in difficult environments.

Benefits of LED Backlights:

• More Brightness with less power consumption and less heat to remove from the system.
• Wide Temperature Operations – Instant On
• Low Voltage operation for minimal impact on EMI/RFI
• More robust when subject to mechanical shock and vibration
• NVIS compatible LED for dual mode operation
• Can be used in direct backlighting application to increase dynamic contrast
• Long life Operation and Redundancy
• No Mercury and ROHS Compliant

Sunlight Readable Solutions

WPG Americas Displays is an innovative company that provides flat panel display enhancements. Our enhancements are applicable to a broad range of FPD technologies including liquid crystal (LCD), Plasma, Vacuum Flourescents (VFD) and OLED.

Our goal is to improve the looks and durability of your LCD or FPD in all the environments it will operate. Our enhancements dramatically reduce front surface and internal reflections while making the display brighter and increasing viewability in all conditions.

Antiglare – Antireflection – Contrast Enhancement

The solutions that WPGA Displays provides include:

• Optical Lamination of Flexible Substrates
• Optical Bonding in Rigid Substrates
• Passive Backlight Enhancements
• Active Backlight Enhancements
• Contact Assembly and Kitting
• Touch Panel Attachment
• Test, Measurement and Display Screening
• Humidity Protection
• Polarizer Replacement
• Hydrophobic and Oleophobic Surface Treatments
• Specialty Think Film Coating Design
• Repair and Refurbishing of LCD Displays

All Value-Added work at WPGA Displays is preformed at ESD safe workstations and optical path work is always preformed in either a Class 1000 Clean Room or Class 100 Benches.

About WPG Americas Embedded System Solutions Mission
WPG Americas Embedded System Solutions Group focuses on the design, value-add and integration of products to support the embedded display market. We are proud to partner with the leading companies in the world for display technologies providing best in class industrial LCD displays, peripheral products and services to our valued customers through the continual improvement process of adding high quality lines, educating our employees and expanding our capabilities. In short to always push to do business at a higher standard. No matter the market for your products, we have the solutions for you. Let our expertise and partnerships help you find the solution you need to reduce your time to market and overall system cost.

It’s all about Adding Value
Why do customers choose WPGA Embedded System Solutions? Because WPGA has been supporting display centric applications with leading technology, widest breadth of products and services and some of the leading display engineers in the industry. WPGA can be the single supplier from consumer to industrial products, both standard and customized solutions as well as off the shelf products and as fully integrated engineered solutions. The benefits of having WPGA as a supplier partner are:

•  Breadth of products means reduced number of vendors
•  Leveraging WPGA’s design expertise reduces your engineering time
•  Value-Add and Integration services means faster time to market
•  The latest technology means the most feature enhanced, high performance solutions on the market

WPGA the Company
WPGA Displays & Solutions was founded in 2007 and has become a leading U.S. Designer, Manufacturer, Value Added Reseller and Distributor of flat panel displays and system solutions. With corporate headquarters located in San Jose, California with over 25 sales and support locations in N. America, Canada and Mexico.
Our expertise in LCD displays, products, technologies and solutions is unmatched. WPGA services include customized display kits, Optical Bonding services, LCD brightness/legibility enhancements and display sub system assembly. Additionally we provide our WPGA valued clients and partners our world class JIT program along with complete after sales technical support and repair services.
WPGA’ unique and innovative offering of products and services are used in medical, military, gaming, digital signage, factory automation, avionics, test and measurement, automotive, industrial HMI, point of information (POI) and point of sales (POS) applications to name just a few..

WPGA the Distributor
Since 2007 WPGA has been focused on the value propositions side of the industrial displays market. Our development, sales, marketing, service and production personnel have focused and sharpened their skills over many years. As a displays and solutions distributor of Innolux, Samsung, LG, Mitsubishi, Ampire, EDT, FEMA, WiseChip, Hyundai, BOE, and NewHaven Displays WPGA can supply the very latest in industrial and consumer display technologies. With an unmatched support line card we can deliver best in class peripherals and support solutions associated to our clients display requirements.

WPGA Fulfillment
In addition to our traditional distribution business WPGA is one of the largest suppliers optically enhanced displays and LED backlighting solutions. As a system solutions provider WPGA supplies value added kits consisting of display, LCD controller, touch screens, single board computers and all required accessories. Our global procurement and logistics team purchases all the required devices based on our customer’s application needs. This means we provide our valued clients a complete solution from a single source, including customized products, design-in support and comprehensive after sales service. Our in-house expertise, wide breadth of products and services enable WPGA to be a leader in the flat panel technologies marketplace.

WPGA Service
A lean organization and concise decision making processes allow us to be nimble and flexible on customer requirements. Combined with our collective 25 years+ of display experience WPGA is the one stop shop for all
your display needs. Logistics efficiency and procurement proficiency ensures on time and clean delivery of products
every time.

WPGA Quality
WPGA is an ISO 9000, AS9120 and ITAR certified company.