7-inch ESP32-P4 wireless touchscreen display supports GUITION Designer for LVGL, Arduino and ESP-IDF programming

GUITION JC1060P470C is an ESP32-P4 board with an integrated 7-inch touchscreen display and an ESP32-C6 WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5 module providing wireless connectivity. The display also features a microSD card for storage, a MIPI CSI connector to add a camera, a few USB-C ports, and two FPC connectors for GPIO expansion.

It’s a more integrated version of the ESP32-P4-Function-EV-Board that can be used for HMI applications and that is compatible with the GUITION Designer online design tool to create LVGL-based graphical user interfaces.

GUITION JC1060P470C specifications:

• Microcontroller – Espressif Systems ESP32-P4
  • CPU
    • Dual-core RISC-V HP (High-performance) CPU @ up to 400 MHz with AI instructions extension and single-precision FPU, 768KB of on-chip SRAM
    • Single-RISC-V LP (Low-power) MCU core @ up to 40 MHz with 8KB of zero-wait TCM RAM
  • Memory – 768 KB HP L2MEM, 32 KB LP SRAM, 8 KB TCM
  • ROM – 128 KB HP ROM, 16 KB LP ROM
  • GPU – 2D Pixel Processing Accelerator (PPA)
  • VPU – H.264 and JPEG codecs support
• Storage
  • 16 MB SPI flash
  • MicroSD card slot
• Display I/F – 7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS display with 1024 x 600 resolution, 16.7M colors; Note: based on the specifications, there’s another JC1060P470N model without touchscreen function
• Camera I/F – 15-pin MIPI CSI FPC connector
• Audio – 2-pin Speaker connector
• Wireless – ESP32-C6-MINI-1U module for WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5 connectivity with external antenna
• USB – 3x USB Type-C ports, including one for debugging
• Debugging
  • USB-UART Type-C connector
  • 4-pin 1.25-inch UART connector
• Expansion – 2x 14-pin I/O expansion FPC connectors
• Misc – RTC with CR1220 battery holder
• Power Supply
  • 5V via USB-C port
  • 2-pin Lithium battery connector
  • Power Consumption – About 600mA
• Dimensions – 164.9 x 104mm
• Weight – 260 grams
• Temperature Range – Operating: -20 to +70°C; storage: -30 to +80°C

The company points to display (JD9165) and touchscreen drivers (GT911) on the ESP IoT Solution GitHub repository, and also shares a zip file with user manual, PDF schematics, datasheets, and code samples for both the ESP-IDF framework and the Arduino IDE.

Support for the ESP-IDF was expected, but I’m more surprised about Arduino, since ESP32-P4 support in Arduino ESP32 is still a work in progress, with features such as MIPI DSI and CSI yet to be supported. There are more examples Demo_IDF, but the Arduino sketch is called “esp32p4_arduino_mipi-dsi_lvgl.ino”, indicating the display is working and the LVGL library is used for the user interface. It turns out there’s a separate “esp32” boards package provided by Espressif Systems for the ESP32-P4 Dev Board and a few other boards, and that’s what is being used here.

I had never heard about GUITION, but GUITION Designer is a web-based LVGL GUI interface developed in China that provides an alternative to the popular SquareLine Studio for Windows, Linux, and macOS. The documentation is only in Chinese, but as I understand it, GUITION Designer is free, and the company makes money selling displays instead of software licenses.

The 7-inch GUITION JC1060P470C ESP32-P4 touchscreen display is sold on AliExpress for $37, and I can also see a 10-inch ESP32-P4 display (JC8012P4A1C) going for $43.75.

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