VxWorks and Linux graphic interface development are easier and easier

Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel, recently announced the immediate launch of Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite 5.7. This is a software development solution for embedded applications. It can efficiently build and deploy multi-platform and highly available graphical user interfaces.

Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite 5.7 is the result of the company's acquisition of Tilcon in February this year and product integration, further expanding the Wind River software development product lineup, not only is it more closely integrated with VxWorks in terms of features, but it is also the first version of Tilcon graphics suite that provides standard support for Wind River Linux.

In today's fiercely competitive equipment manufacturing market, end-user experience is the key for manufacturers to gain differentiated advantages. It often plays a decisive role in device purchase rate and sales. However, traditional development methods for Embedded graphical user interfaces are basically engineering-oriented, rather than customer experience-oriented. Therefore, they are time-consuming and produce a large amount of capital costs. It is particularly worth noting that the traditional interface development method requires a large number of complicated codes, and even a small modification will bring a very high price for product testing and verification.

Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite 5.7 makes it easier for device manufacturers to develop a variety of user interfaces for their products, and it consumes less money and labor costs than traditional graphic user interface development. In this solution, the core capabilities are provided mainly through the following two key components:

◆ Tilcon Interface Development Tool (IDT): provides innovative and flexible host simulation methods for graphic user Interface design and Development. With Tilcon IDT, you do not have to write any product code or code in the early stages of product development, the device manufacturer can design, launch a prototype, simulate, and test the Embedded graphic user interface.

◆ Tilcon GUI Engine: This is a run-time platform running on the device operating system. It not only displays the running results to users, in addition, all applications, software, and hardware on the device can be integrated with the user interface to be developed, running applications, and processes. This GUI engine allows you to modify images without affecting the basic application code, which can greatly shorten the product time to market.

Starting from this, the new Tilcon Graphic Suite, as an organic part, was integrated into the Wind River company's product lineup and provided TSP (Target Support Packages) for VxWorks 6.7 and Wind River Linux 3.0, target support package ). By combining these two industry-leading platform products, Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite delivers Enhanced availability and smoother workflows to customers and partners. Not only that, unlike equipment manufacturers that must seek support from Wind River and Tilcon, the use of a single, fully integrated software development solution from a single provider of Wind River, equipment manufacturers can also obtain many associated benefits. Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite 5.7 brings more important benefits to device manufacturers, including:

L extends host support, including Windows Vista and Linux

L extensive and comprehensive tutorials

L The New Wind River Workbench Application Template enables closer integration with other Wind River products. The updated Tilcon Scalability Tool can be integrated with Wind River Workbench, And the TSP for VxWorks Simulator is added.

L use the Wind River license and installation software to maintain better consistency with other Wind River Products

Marc Brown, vice president of marketing and strategy of Wind River Corporation's VxWorks product department, pointed out: "With the advent of low-price display of hardware and more powerful processing capabilities, in many industries, the graphic interface is switching from a high-end demand to a large number of mainstream applications. In the division of labor between equipment manufacturers, partners, and industrial application markets, Fenghe makes unremitting efforts to fulfill its responsibilities and commitments, the integration of the Tilcon embedded graphics solution and the original Fenghe product lineup was quickly realized. The launch of Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite 5.7 within six months after the acquisition of Tilcon is not only an example of Wind River's commitment, moreover, the company's market position has been continuously consolidated and expanded ".