Codeless Embedded GUI Development

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The Last Embedded Graphics Suite You'll Use

Value

• Faster deployment: Deploy high-quality embedded GUIs faster and for less.
• No coding: Conduct codeless design, prototyping, simulating, and testing of embedded GUIs early in development.
• Quick integration: Drive integration with your embedded platform using Wind River Tilcon GUI Engine.
• OS-ready: Work with the integrated VxWorks and Wind River Linux operating systems.

Results

• Smart interface: Watch your team ramp up quickly with the smart, user-centric graphical interface.
• Fast time-to-market: Streamlined, codeless embedded GUI development generates a competitive advantage with minimal effort and development time.
• Less risk: Simpler, smoother development consumes fewer resources and reduces project risk.
• Agility: User interface modification without application changes makes revision and rebranding simpler.

Features

Visual Embedded GUI Development Tool

• Visual development: Develop your embedded GUI visually, using a drag-and-drop environment.
• Instant product integration: Instantly download your embedded graphics from your host PC to your embedded device.
• Changes on the fly: Quickly iterate your embedded GUI without having to rebuild your application with each change.
• Portable and compatible: Take advantage of seamless portability and true cross-platform compatibility with identical APIs on all supported platforms.

Interface Creation Tools for Application Prototyping

• Anti-aliasing: Generate smooth edges for a high-quality look and feel.
• Alpha blending: Smoothly blend one object into another, moving, scrolling, and scaling the alpha-blended object.
• WYSIWYG development environment: Reduce training and the need for experience with the easy-to-use drag-and-drop tool.
• Adobe Photoshop integration: Load professionally designed graphic elements directly into your embedded GUI, with no cut-and-paste required.
• Codeless animation: Make complex effects and animated graphics in any screen, with no coding.
• Easy customization: Straightforward property sheets make for easy customization.
• OpenGL, OpenGL ES, OpenVG graphics: Render OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and OpenVG 3D and 2D objects within frames.

Prototyping and Simulation with No Coding

• Easy usability: Model your application front end and explore new usability concepts, before writing a single line of product code.
• "Socialized" interface: Quickly show your ideas in action across the organization using self-contained executables.
• Simple testing: See a GUI snapshot at any time during the design and development process, and the prototype becomes the product.

Rich Selection of User Interface Objects

• Widget library: Use existing library for buttons, meters, gauges, charts, and more, or create custom objects using Wind River Tilcon Interface Development Tool.
• OpenGL 2.1–compliant: 3D graphics libraries are compatible with existing VxWorks graphics drivers.
• OpenGL ES, OpenVG, and EGL graphics libraries and drivers: Support hardware accelerated 2D/3D graphics on VxWorks with new embedded OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0, OpenVG 1.1, and EGL graphics libraries and drivers for PowerVR SGX GPU core, found on TI OMAP and Intel Atom processor families.

Drag and Drop Your Way to a Better Embedded GUI

Interface Builder

• GUI design and development made easy
  • Build a user-centric embedded GUI instead of an engineering-centric one.
  • Avoid costly product changes late in the development cycle.
  • Simply drag and drop.
• An upfront GUI
  • Get input from designers, engineers, and usability experts in the earliest stages of development.
• Adobe Photoshop integration
  • Bring completed elements and backgrounds into your embedded GUI from Photoshop.
• Codeless development
  • Build and test graphics visually in real-time, without application code, third-party libraries, or recompilation.
• Prototype to product
  • Quickly create a complete, working, user-centric interface without impacting the product development schedule.
• Supported hosts
  • Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7
  • Linux

Wind River Tilcon Interface Development Tool

Wind River Tilcon GUI Engine

Wind River Tilcon GUI Engine handles all low-level embedded graphics code, fonts, text, images, colors, and more. All object functionality and behavior are preprogrammed. Simply attach the pre-integrated, tested, and optimized Tilcon GUI Engine to your device hardware platform for a finished product, complete with an embedded GUI that provides display speed, maximum functionality, and optimal performance:

• Portable, proven, and optimized: The download interface screens to a product instantly with a pre-optimized embedded GUI engine for your target of choice.
• Easy integration testing: Build and test graphic objects in real-time without coding to quickly test your product with its interface.
• Low-impact hardware and software changes: Run graphic objects anywhere Tilcon GUI Engine runs—no more risk associated with underlying application changes and no porting required.
• Instant rebrand and re-skin: Change any embedded graphic element and view it immediately—no more building, testing, and downloading to the target.
• OpenGL 2.1–compliant: 3D graphics libraries are compatible with existing VxWorks graphics drivers.
• OpenGL ES, OpenVG, and EGL graphics libraries and drivers: Support hardware accelerated 2D/3D graphics on VxWorks with new embedded OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0, OpenVG 1.1, and EGL graphics libraries and drivers for PowerVR SGX GPU core, found on TI OMAP and Intel Atom processor families.
• Run-time environments: Use Wind River's VxWorks (Intel Architecture, Power Architecture, ARM); Microsoft CE (Intel Architecture, ARM); Microsoft Windows; and Wind River Linux and other Linux flavors on Intel Architecture.