Product: Altia DeepScreen

Altia Announces DeepScreen Code for MediaTek MT2715

Posted on by Cheryl Falk

Today Altia announces DeepScreen graphics code running on the MediaTek MT2715 system-on-chip (SoC). This combination of Altia and MediaTek technologies will serve global automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers designing automotive cockpit applications for production vehicles.

The MT2715 is the newest generation SoC from MediaTek—which replaces the company’s Autus I20 (MT2712). The MT2715 features higher CPU and GPU computing power than the previous generation to support 6K display resolution and rich applications across multiple displays for automotive integrated cockpit systems.

Altia’s advanced embedded HMI editor and graphics code generators are exceptionally suited for high power hardware like the MediaTek MT2715 SoC. The Altia tool suite enables designers and engineers to create powerful advanced displays with a streamlined, state-of-the-art workflow. Altia software allows for quick, easy iterations of dynamic, integrated 2D and 3D graphics for clusters, head-up displays, infotainment systems and full integrated cockpit applications. Leveraging Altia as a single tool for all cockpit displays, design teams can create a truly unified user experience across various display. Altia DeepScreen software solutions are architected to take advantage of the full array of features on chip to deliver high performance, production-ready C code.

“Altia and MediaTek have each enjoyed long success in driving advanced graphics for consumer electronics. We are extremely pleased to bring our technologies together on the MT2715 platform with a focus on next generation HMIs for automotive cockpit displays. We are currently working with OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers on their most demanding UI challenges—and we are poised to solve these challenges with our potent combination of hardware and software solutions,” stated Mike Chang, VP of Computing, Connectivity & MetaVerse Group.

“We are proud to be the first HMI graphics supplier to provide graphics code for MediaTek’s new SoC. With the powerful feature set available on the MediaTek MT2715 and Altia’s production-proven user interface software, automakers will be able to design and deploy an integrated cockpit with multiple operating systems, including Android, and maintain a truly branded look and feel across every screen in the car,” stated Michael Hill, Altia Vice President of Engineering.

For more information about Altia code generation solutions for MediaTek MT2715, email [email protected].

About Altia

Altia is a software company that provides graphical user interface design and development tools that can be used from concept to final product code. Our GUI editor, Altia Design, offers development teams the capability to implement a model-based development process for clear communication and accelerated user interface development. Our code generator, Altia DeepScreen, supports a vast range of low- to high-powered processors from a variety of industry-leading silicon providers. Altia generates pure C source code that is optimized to take full advantage of hardware resources. Graphics code generated by Altia is driving millions of displays worldwide – from automotive instrument clusters, HUDs and radios to thermostats, washing machines and healthcare monitors. Our mission is to get the best automotive, medical and consumer interfaces into production in the shortest time on the lowest cost hardware.

Altia was founded in 1991. Its customers include automotive OEMs and Tier 1s like Continental Automotive, Denso, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Honda, Renault, Magneti Marelli, Nippon Seiki, Valeo, Visteon and more – plus leading consumer device manufacturers like Electrolux, Whirlpool, NordicTrack and many others.

For more information about Altia, visit www.altia.com or email [email protected].

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Altia Expands Support of NXP i.MX RT Series Crossover MCUs to Include i.MX RT1170

Posted on by Cheryl Falk

Altia, a global leader in graphical user interface development software, has extended DeepScreen code generation support for the NXP i.MX Series to include the i.MX RT1170 crossover MCU.

Designed into over 100 million devices, Altia has a strong legacy for success in automotive, medical, industrial and consumer markets. Altia’s GUI development software and services are used by companies worldwide to get first class displays onto the lowest cost, best performing hardware. With Altia Design, the GUI editor and centerpiece of Altia’s tool chain, users import their assets from tools like Adobe Photoshop to draw their GUIs, create animations, define behavior and optimize user experience. Once complete, Altia DeepScreen generates pure C source code from the Altia design model that leverages unique hardware features for fast and efficient runtime performance.

The i.MX RT1170 crossover MCU addresses a broad range of applications, including consumer, industrial and automotive applications. The dual core MCU runs on the Arm® Cortex®-M7 core at 1 GHz and Arm Cortex-M4 at 400 MHz. The i.MX RT1170 features dual graphics engines to compose and blend graphics content before sending it to a display. Its Vector Graphics engine enables hardware rendering of scalable vector content into compositable bitmaps. The integrated 2D PXP Graphics Accelerator can manipulate and blend bitmaps with multiple pixel formats, scaling, fixed angle image rotation and DMA transfer of image data. The display controller allows creation of up to eight display layers, offering on-the-fly alpha blending capabilities and multi-format support.

Altia supports all these unique hardware features to ensure fast performance and a seamless user experience:

  • Unlocks the potential of i.MX RT1170 2D GPU and VGLite rendering pipelines
  • Generates hardware optimized code for the smallest footprint and fastest execution
  • Layer Manager supports rendering for up to eight simultaneous hardware layers including direct from flash, “Clock in Place” options
  • Binary Asset Manager automatically selects optimum pixel-depths and compression formats for each graphical asset to minimize your memory footprint
  • Supports runtime or static versions of anti-aliased font engines such as FreeType and Monotype
  • DeepScreen code can be easily ported to different operating systems or even no OS platforms

Altia is offering a demo for the NXP i.MX RT1170 Crossover MCU board. Details about the demo can be found on Altia’s i.MX RT1170 product page.

About Altia

Altia is a software company that provides graphical user interface design and development tools that can be used from concept to final production code. Our GUI editor, Altia Design, offers development teams the capability to implement a model-based development process enabling clear team communication and accelerated user interface development. Our code generator, Altia DeepScreen, supports a vast range of low- to high-powered processors from a variety of industry-leading silicon providers. Altia generates pure C source code that is optimized to take full advantage of hardware resources. Graphics code generated by Altia is driving millions of displays worldwide – from automotive instrument clusters, HUDs and radios to thermostats, washing machines and medical devices. Our mission is to get the best automotive, medical and consumer interfaces into production in the shortest time on the lowest cost hardware.

Altia was founded in 1991. Its customers include automotive OEMs and Tier 1s like Continental Automotive, Denso, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Honda, Renault, Magneti Marelli, Nippon Seiki, Valeo, Visteon and more – plus leading consumer device manufacturers like Electrolux, Whirlpool, NordicTrack and many others.

For more information about Altia, visit www.altia.com or email [email protected].

Follow Altia on LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.

Altia Announces DeepScreen Code Generation Support for NXP i.MX RT1060 Crossover MCU

Posted on by Cheryl Falk

Altia announces the availability of Altia DeepScreen code generation for the NXP i.MX RT1060 Crossover MCU. Customers seeking to close the gap between high performance and cost-effective graphical user interface (GUI) solutions for Internet of Things (IoT) devices can now do so with the powerful cooperation of Altia and NXP. Altia’s solution leverages our highly optimized and compact miniGL engine architecture to maximize performance, while still enabling a robust suite of graphics capabilities.

The i.MX RT1060 processor delivers the highest performing Arm® Cortex®-M7 that can support both real-time performance and an applications processor level of functionality. This platform includes 1MB of on-chip SRAM with up to 512KB configurable as Tightly Coupled Memory (TCM). It contains advanced multimedia peripherals including the 2D PXP accelerated graphics engine, a parallel camera sensor interface and a parallel 24-bit LCD display controller which supports up to WXGA (1366×768) resolutions.

With Altia’s release of this code generation target, customers can now scale their Altia GUI models across a wide array of NXP products, including the i.MX 8, i.MX 6, i.MX 1060, i.MX RT1160, i.MX RT1170, S32V, MAC57D5xx, MPC5645S, MPC5606S, i.MX28, i.MX53, LPC1788, and VFxxx families.

Altia’s GUI development software is used by companies all over the world to deliver custom interfaces for automotive, construction and agriculture, medical, consumer and industrial devices. Development teams start with their favorite graphics tools, import their artwork into Altia Design, and create fully functional GUI models that can be tested early and often to achieve a seamless user experience. Once a GUI model is complete, developers deliver their artist’s pixels to production hardware with the Altia DeepScreen code generator. Altia’s code generation solutions are exceptionally suited for hardware like the NXP i.MX RT1060 Crossover MCU. Features like the Altia miniGL pipeline and Binary Asset Manager work in concert to store image assets as hardware optimized formats by automatically selecting the correct pixel-depth and compression options, while enabling the lowest possible memory footprint and best performance on chip.

“For customers designing and deploying 2D graphics for IoT devices with the NXP i.MX RT1060, Altia offers a potent solution for achieving the rich graphics and on-chip performance that make for a satisfying user experience,” said Jason Williamson, Altia Vice President of Marketing. “As companies seek to scale their GUIs from a high-power processor like an i.MX 8 to other product lines, Altia’s scalable GUI solutions combined with products like the i.MX RT1060 continue to enable high end graphics on lower cost products.”

Altia is offering a home automation GUI demo for the NXP i.MX RT1060 Crossover MCU board. Details about the demo and the Quick Start Guide can be found on Altia’s i.MX RT1060 product page.

About Altia

Altia is a software company that provides graphical user interface design and development tools that can be used from concept to final product code. Our GUI editor, Altia Design, offers development teams the capability to implement a model-based development process that enables accelerated user interface creation and simplifies team communication. Our code generator, Altia DeepScreen, supports a vast range of low to high-powered processors from a variety of industry-leading silicon providers. Altia generates pure C source code that is optimized to take full advantage of hardware resources. Graphics code generated by Altia is driving millions of displays worldwide – from automotive instrument clusters, HUDs and radios to thermostats, washing machines and medical products. Our mission is to get the best automotive, medical and consumer interfaces into production in the shortest time and on the lowest cost hardware.

Altia was founded in 1991. Its customers include automotive OEMs and Tier 1s like Continental Automotive, Denso, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Honda, Renault, Magneti Marelli, Nippon Seiki, Valeo, Visteon and more – plus leading consumer device manufacturers like Electrolux, Whirlpool, NordicTrack and many others.

For more information about Altia, visit www.altia.com or email [email protected].

Follow Altia on LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.

 

Altia Expands DeepScreen Code Generation Support to Renesas RZ/G2L

Posted on by Cheryl Falk

Altia announced today that DeepScreen code generation support is now available for Renesas RZ/G2L microprocessors (MPUs). For companies developing products like home security devices, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, home appliances and medical devices using the Renesas RZ/G2L, Altia offers a powerful solution for creating beautiful, branded embedded displays quickly and efficiently.

The RZ/G2L MPU includes a Cortex®-A55 (1.2 GHz) CPU, 16-bit DDR3L / DDR4 interface, 3D graphics engine with Arm Mali-G31 and video codec (H.264). This MPU also has many interfaces such as camera input, display output, USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet, making it ideal for applications such as entry-class graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and embedded devices with video capabilities.

Altia’s graphical user interface software includes an advanced embedded GUI editor and graphics code generator for creating high impact GUIs for production hardware like the Renesas RZ/G2L. The Altia tool suite enables designers to leverage artwork from all popular 2D and 3D graphics tools. Developers can leverage these graphics to create a full-featured GUI model. With Altia’s state-of-the-art workflow, developers can do quick, easy iterations of those models to test with users and refine the user experience of the GUI—providing a perfected GUI model for code generation.

Altia DeepScreen then generates production-ready C source code tailored to the Renesas RZ/G2L board, taking advantage of the full array of features on chip to deliver best performance and smallest memory footprint. Altia’s scalable GUI software solution also supports a variety of low- to high-power Renesas products for this market segment beyond the RZ/G2L, including Synergy S5/S7, RX600, SH7268/9 and RZ/A.

“Renesas is committed to meeting the needs of our industrial and home appliance customers with innovative silicon technology and full solutions – and we are achieving that with the RZ/G2L MPU,” said TJ Mueller, Product Marketing and Business Development at Renesas Electronics America. “Altia provides a finely tuned solution for developing best-in-class user interfaces on the RZ/G2L such as advanced 3D interfaces to enable powerful display and video capabilities for systems that require HMI and seamless graphical interaction.”

“We are delighted to be working together with Renesas to extend GUI code generation support to the Renesas RZ/G2L. For companies deploying embedded GUIs for this Renesas MPU, Altia enables their designers with a full-featured toolset to create custom graphics and then deploy pure C code that easily certified and highly performant,” states Jeffrey Urkevich, Altia Director of Product Marketing.

For developers interested in downloading a GUI model for the Renesas RZ/G2L board, visit the Altia DeepScreen for RZ-G2L product page.

About Altia

Altia is a software company that provides graphical user interface design and development tools that can be used from concept to final product code. Our GUI editor, Altia Design, offers development teams the capability to implement a model-based development process for clear communication and accelerated user interface development. Our code generator, Altia DeepScreen, supports a vast range of low- to high-powered processors from a variety of industry-leading silicon providers. Altia generates pure C source code that is optimized to take full advantage of hardware resources. Graphics code generated by Altia is driving millions of displays worldwide – from automotive instrument clusters, HUDs and radios to thermostats, washing machines and healthcare monitors. Our mission is to get the best automotive, medical and consumer interfaces into production in the shortest time on the lowest cost hardware.

Altia was founded in 1991. Our customers include companies developing devices for automotive, medical, home appliance, consumer applications and beyond. For more information about Altia, visit www.altia.com or email [email protected].

Follow Altia on LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.

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