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Altia Code Generation Support Available for Texas Instruments AM62x Family of Processors

Posted on by Cheryl Falk

Altia announces today code generation support for the new Texas Instruments (TI) Arm®-based AM62x family of processors targeting a broad range of industrial and automotive applications. For development teams seeking a low-power processor for a dual-screen display or small-size graphical user interface (GUI) applications, Altia offers a toolset for designing and deploying rich, custom graphics and efficient C code for optimized performance and lowest footprint.

TI AM62x family of processors delivers real-time performance at a lower cost to enable faster development and deployment and help reduce time-to-market. The AM62x includes four Arm® Cortex-A53 processors, a 3D graphics processing unit (GPU), one Arm® Cortex-M4F processor, two PRU-SS and 2GB DDR4 SDRAM. AM62x processors enable dual-screen, full high-definition displays and support for multiple operating systems, including Mainline Linux® and Android™ operating systems. Additionally, the architecture of AM62x processors is designed to reduce power consumption in industrial applications by as much as 50%–enabling an application powered by AA batteries to remain on for over 1,000 hours.

Altia’s GUI development software can further enable low power consumption and high frame per second (FPS) performance for designing and deploying graphical displays with TI AM62x. The Altia DeepScreen code generation solution for this processor is architected to make the most of each feature on chip, resulting in tight, production-ready C code that consumes minimal memory. Companies designing GUIs with Altia and TI AM62x processors can leverage Altia’s time-saving workflow to create full-featured, custom graphics with rich animations and 3D, delivering a high-impact user experience and extended battery life.

“Our DeepScreen code generation architects love designing solutions for new silicon—and they are especially excited to develop new code generators for processors where power is precious and bill of material (BOM) cost is critical,” states Michael Hill, Altia Vice President of Engineering. “The Altia team is proud to provide a concept to code solution for designing and deploying efficient GUI for TI AM62x processor customers.”

Altia is offering automotive instrument cluster and health monitor demos for the TI AM62x processor. Details about the demos can be found on Altia’s TI AM62x 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 Showcases GUI Solutions and Altia CloudWare™ at Embedded World 2023

Posted on by Cheryl Falk

Altia, a leading provider of user interface design and development software, is proud to announce its participation in Embedded World Expo 2023. This premier international trade fair and conference for embedded systems will take place in Nuremberg, Germany from March 14 to 16, 2023.

Visitors to the Altia booth will have the opportunity to see live demos of Altia graphical user interfaces (GUIs) at work with a variety of embedded ecosystem partners—including Android, Green Hills Software, Imagination Technologies, Infineon, NXP, Qualcomm, Renesas, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments. All are invited to visit and speak with Altia experts about how the company’s solutions can help them create visually stunning and highly functional user interfaces for their embedded systems. Around the show, Altia GUIs will be demonstrated by partners as well.

“We are excited to be a part of Embedded World Expo 2023 and to showcase our industry-leading software to the global embedded systems community,” said Jason Williamson, Altia Vice President of Marketing. “With Altia, our customers create intuitive user interfaces that set their products apart in a competitive market. Furthermore, they have the flexibility to scale their Altia GUIs from low- to high-power hardware and even switch to less expensive or more readily available hardware mid-production.”

At the expo, the Altia team will be demonstrating Altia CloudWare™, the newest product in Altia’s GUI development software lineup. This cloud-based Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS) solution, is available to companies developing embedded graphical user interfaces for production devices. CloudWare™ allows GUI developers to remotely access and pair Altia’s software with popular embedded hardware to create a test drive experience for their GUI from anywhere in the world.

Visitors to the Embedded World 2023 parallel conferences are invited to learn more about Altia CloudWare™ in presentations by Jeff Stewart, Altia Director of Global Sales Engineering, at Electronic Displays 2023 Conference on Wednesday, March 15 at 2:20 PM and Thursday, March 16 at Embedded World 2023 Conference at 5:00 PM.

Find Altia in Hall 4, Booth 4-201 at the Embedded World Expo 2023. Attendees are encouraged to schedule a meeting at the show or visit Altia’s booth to learn more about the company’s products and services and to see live demos of its software in action.

Altia Launches CloudWare™ to Enable Simplified, Faster Embedded GUI Development

Posted on by Cheryl Falk

Altia CloudWare™, a cloud-based Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS) solution, is now available to all companies developing embedded graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for production devices. The newest product in Altia’s GUI development software suite, CloudWare™ allows GUI developers to remotely access and pair Altia’s graphical user interface software with popular embedded hardware to create a test drive experience for their GUI from anywhere in the world.

Officially launched at CES 2023 and previewed prior to the show with key partners and customers, Altia CloudWare™ is already being recognized as a game-changing solution for improved collaboration, fast access to production hardware and simplified hardware testing to find the right-sized hardware for a GUI project.

“At Altia, we work with companies developing graphical displays for production and we learn a lot about the challenges they have experienced in previous projects. It’s our mission is to make embedded GUIs easy, so we created CloudWare™ to simplify benchmarking, testing and running GUI designs on any supported hardware from anywhere in the world,” stated Mike Juran, Altia CEO. “With the prevalence of distributed teams, this new tool also enables immediate collaboration with a unified hardware-software stack. GUI teams will turn months of collaboration time into minutes with CloudWare™.”

“This hardware-in-the-cloud solution offered by Altia will enable our customers to rapidly evaluate NXP® Semiconductors’ high-performance MCUs and MPUs and make it easy for them to choose from the wide range of NXP devices available for their GUI-based products,” said Jeff Steinheider, Vice President and General Manager, Industrial Edge, NXP. “The production-proven pairing of Altia GUI software with i.MX 8QuadMax in the cloud is a major advance in HMI development. With coming support for i.MX RT1170 and i.MX 93 families, our customers will be able to quickly and easily explore our broad portfolio to find an optimal solution for their needs.”

“Altia CloudWare™ is more than just a product we’re offering to customers. As a global company, we have engineers all over the world who are actively using this tool for our own demo and product development,” stated Mike Morgan, Altia Director of Product Delivery. “Not only has CloudWare™ enabled us to troubleshoot our GUI development in real time, but it makes our engineering team members even more productive and successful. We’re collaborating more effectively and with greater certainty because we are developing and testing for the exact same hardware.”

Altia CloudWare™ is now available. To request your demo, visit www.altia.com/cloudware.

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 Solves GUI Development Challenges with New Hardware-in-the-Cloud Solution

Posted on by Cheryl Falk

Altia is proud to announce Altia CloudWare™, a cloud-based Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS) solution that allows graphical user interface (GUI) developers to pair Altia’s production-proven graphical user interface software with popular embedded hardware to create a test drive experience for their GUI from anywhere in the world. Altia will showcase this new product at CES 2023 – January 5-8 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“Altia’s real-world understanding of the challenges of embedded system setup, configuration and validation inspired the development of Altia CloudWare™,” stated Michael Hill, Altia Vice President of Engineering. “We wanted to give our users the ability to rapidly access embedded systems as if they are sitting on their own desks—without the hassle associated with hardware and software management. We have achieved this with CloudWare™.”

What challenges does Altia CloudWare™ solve? As embedded GUI developers face incredibly long lead times for test hardware, Altia CloudWare™ enables access to test hardware in minutes. With multiple platforms available, GUI teams can pair their GUIs with the hardware of their choice to benchmark and test their project for best performance. Distributed GUI team members work with the same hardware-software stack—eliminating risk of disparate software versioning, configuration or compiler installation. Additionally, because the hardware is in the cloud, there is no loss of productivity while teams wait for test hardware to manufacture and ship. Instead, teams can begin development now with their selected CloudWare™ platform. Altia CloudWare™ enables GUI design teams to meet their product development schedules so that, when production hardware is available, their GUI will be ready to deploy.

The Altia team will demonstrate Altia CloudWare™ at their Renaissance Hotel exhibitor suite at CES 2023. CES attendees interested in a demo of Altia CloudWare™ can request a meeting with Altia at www.altia.com/ces. Not attending CES? Sign up to see CloudWare™ on our website.

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.

 

Electric Vehicle Charging Station GUIs Powered by Altia and Texas Instruments

Posted on by Cheryl Falk

Altia HMIs drive an optimized user experience for automotive applications—whether that be while you’re driving your car or charging your car.

We’re excited to demonstrate our latest electric vehicle charging station HMI in a Phytec reference design based on the plyCore-AM62x System on Module at electronica 2022—November 15-18 in Munich. See the demo live with Texas Instruments in Hall C4, Booth 156.

More about the demo…

The EV charging station demo includes two touch-enabled screens—the first with a rotating car and an animated charging cable where the user indicates when the car is ready to plug in and when to start charging. The second screen informs the user about what time of day the vehicle will be completely charged, remaining time for charge, charging current and battery level with attractive and intuitive indicators. The platform under the status car on this screen glows with increasing intensity as the car charges.

Altia’s HMI development software—including Altia Design GUI editor and DeepScreen code generator—enables design teams to get first class graphics and an optimized user experience into production. Check out Altia’s pixels to production workflow in this video.

Here are details about the platform that Texas Instruments will be using to demonstrate this EV charging GUI.

PHYTEC Main Controller board:

  • Main Processor: TI AM62x
  • Main Board: PHYTEC phyCORE-AM62x SOM + phyBOARD-AM62x dev kit
  • Wi-Fi Sub-1 GHz Matter: M.2 Wi-Fi card, 2230 Key E form factor Wi-Fi and Bluetooth expansion module with TI WL1837MOD and TI CC1352P7
  • Power Line Communication (PLC): RED-BEET-P 1.1 PLC, HomePlug GreenPHY module Expansion card

TI Power Board: Texas Instruments TIDA-010239
European EV Socket Outlet: PCE socket-outlet type 2 e325
OS: Linux
Render Pipeline: OpenGL ES 2.0
Display: 10” Capacitive Touchscreen, 1920×720 resolution in the Portrait Mode

We invite you to check out the demo live at electronica 2022! Altia’s team will be at the show as well, so please let us know if you would like to meet to discuss needs for your next GUI project.

See you in Munich!

Altia Workflow | From Pixels to Production Hardware

Posted on by Cheryl Falk

Designed into over 100 million devices, companies all over the world trust Altia to get their best-looking, best-performing GUIs to market. 

There are many reasons why Altia is GUI tool of choice for developers of all sorts of devices—automotive, medical, consumer and more. One of the top reasons is our streamlined workflow. Altia’s toolchain not only reduces the overall time to market with new GUI projects, but our software also gives companies the capability to turn their artist’s beautiful 2D and 3D artwork into a working GUI model and then deliver that same model all the way to production hardware.

Want to see how simple developing and deploying GUIs with Altia can be? Check out our latest video which shows the journey from graphics in Photoshop through to production hardware.

Would you like to meet with our GUI experts to discuss your next embedded display project and learn more about how Altia will help you get your product to market quickly? We invite you to schedule a demo with us today!

Meet Altia Design 13.3—Live Webinar

Posted on by Cheryl Falk

How do you create high impact GUIs even faster? Altia’s Director of Product Marketing, Jeff Urkevich, and Tim Day, Altia Design Product Manager, will show you how with a live webinar featuring Altia Design 13.3, the latest release of our GUI editor.

All are invited to join us on Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 10 AM Eastern.

In this presentation, we will offer a first look at the top five new features in Altia Design 13.3.

  • Programmable Scene Node
  • Differential 3D Import
  • Composite Timelines
  • Blend Animations
  • Responsive Layout

Altia Design 13.3 is rich with in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) design power as well as updates to make our customers’ experience with Altia easier and more pleasing than ever before. We can’t wait to show you Altia Design 13.3 in action!

(Are you unable to join us? Make sure to sign up anyway! We’ll send you a recording after the live event.)

 

 

Altia Releases Altia Design 13.3

Posted on by Cheryl Falk

Altia, an international leader in GUI design and development tools, today announced the release of Altia Design 13.3, the company’s flagship editing suite for the creation of embedded graphical user interfaces (GUIs).

The centerpiece of the Altia tool suite, Altia Design, allows GUI designers to turn static digital graphics into fully functional GUI prototypes—preparing graphics for code generation with Altia DeepScreen. This tool chain is used by professionals around the world in automotive, medical, industrial and consumer goods applications to get artists’ assets from third party design tools like Adobe Photoshop, Sketch, Maya and more onto production hardware.

Altia Design 13.3 takes GUI development to the next level with powerful new features, like:

  • Programmable Scene Node, which allows developers to inject their own 3D content into a 3D scene; ideal for integration of mapping applications and ADAS
  • Differential 3D Import, which gives users the capability to replace geometry in the scene without replacing or deleting any of the customization/animation already done in Altia
  • Composite Timelines, which lets users create parent and child timelines – letting users control the sequence of child timelines by the parent
  • Blend Animations, which allows for seamless transition between two complex, independent animations
  • Responsive Layout, which allows developers to set rules for objects and design a GUI once to accommodate for a variety of screen sizes and resolutions

Also included in Altia Design 13.3 are important font module updates as well as enhancements for workflow, user interface and user experience.

“As embedded displays become increasingly pervasive across products in all industries, the need to inform and engage our devices users with 3D graphics and sophisticated animations is becoming an unspoken requirement,” noted Jeff Urkevich, Director of Product Marketing for Altia. “Altia Design 13.3 is packed with excellent features to empower our customers to design these graphics with ease.”

“The features and improvements in Altia Design 13.3 enable some very exciting opportunities for our customers’ next generation GUIs,” added Tim Day, Altia Product Manager. “With this release, we’ve added key in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) design power as well as updates to make our customers’ experience with Altia easier and more pleasing. As an Altia user myself, I am really excited about Version 13.3.”

Altia Design 13.3 is immediately available. Altia customers interested in upgrading to Version 13.3 should email their local FAE team or contact [email protected]. Designers and product developers interested in bringing their next generation GUIs to life with Altia can request a demo of Altia Design 13.3 today.

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]. Follow Altia on LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.

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