# Adafruit 3.5" 320x480 Color TFT Touchscreen Breakout
## Overview
Add some jazz & pizazz to your project with a color touchscreen LCD. This TFT display is big (3.5" diagonal) bright (6 white-LED backlight) and colorful! 480x320 pixels with individual RGB pixel control, this has way more resolution than a black and white 128x64 display, and double our 2.8" TFT. This display is available with a resistive touch driver or a capacitive touch driver.
This display has a controller built into it with RAM buffering, so that almost no work is done by the microcontroller. **The display can be used in two modes: 8-bit or SPI.** For 8-bit mode, you'll need 8 digital data lines and 4 or 5 digital control lines to read and write to the display (12 lines total). SPI mode requires only 5 pins total (SPI data in, data out, clock, select, and d/c) but is slower than 8-bit mode. In addition, 4 pins are required for the touch screen (2 digital, 2 analog) or [you can purchase and use our resistive touchscreen controller (not included) to use I2C or SPI](http://www.adafruit.com/products/1571).
Of course, we wouldn't just leave you with a datasheet and a "good luck!". For 8-bit interface fans [we've written a full open source graphics library that can draw pixels, lines, rectangles, circles, text, and more](https://github.com/adafruit/TFTLCD-Library "Link: https://github.com/adafruit/TFTLCD-Library"). For [SPI users, we have a library as well](https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_HX8357_Library), its separate from the 8-bit library since both versions are heavily optimized. We[also have a resistive touch screen library that detects x, y and z (pressure)](https://github.com/adafruit/Touch-Screen-Library "Link: https://github.com/adafruit/Touch-Screen-Library") and [a capacitive touch screen library that detects up to 5 multi-touch points](https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_FT5336) and example code to demonstrate all of it.
- [Next Page](https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-3-5-color-320x480-tft-touchscreen-breakout/pinouts.md)
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### 3.5" TFT 320x480 + Touchscreen Breakout Board w/MicroSD Socket
[3.5" TFT 320x480 + Touchscreen Breakout Board w/MicroSD Socket](https://www.adafruit.com/product/2050)
Add some jazz & pizazz to your project with a color touchscreen LCD. This TFT display is big (3.5" diagonal) bright (6 white-LED backlight) and colorful! 480x320 pixels with individual RGB pixel control, this has way more resolution than a black and white 128x64 display, and double...
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Add some jazz & pizazz to your project with a color touchscreen LCD. This TFT display is big (3.5" diagonal) bright (6 white-LED backlight) and colorful! 480x320 pixels with individual RGB pixel control, this has way more resolution than a black and white 128x64 display, and double...
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Connect this to that when a 18-pin FPC connector is needed. This 25 cm long cable is made of a flexible PCB. It's A-B style which means that pin one on one side will match with pin one on the other side. How handy!
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