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Mentor Embedded Inflexion UI
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MENTOR EMBEDDED INFLEXION UI SOLUTIONS Rapidly create stunning user interfaces Mentor Embedded™ Inflexion™ UI enables users to create compelling and visually rich user interfaces (UIs) with significantly reduced effort; allowing users to meet the UI demands of today’s embedded devices. From highly animated and visually rich 3D UIs for Android- or Linux-based consumer devices, to Linux- or RTOS-based industrial controllers, Inflexion UI solves many of today’s more demanding UI implementation problems. Inflexion UI comprises Inflexion UI Express and Inflexion UI Runtime – offering out-of-the-box support for Android, Linux, and Nucleus® RTOS. Inflexion UI Express is the PC tool used to implement the UI through a drag-and-drop approach. No coding is required for the UI element of the application. As a result, software engineers are free to concentrate on implementing the underlying application logic. The output of Inflexion UI Express is an XML description of the UI along with graphic resources. These are used by Inflexion UI Runtime to display the UI on the device. Inflexion UI Runtime can use its own built-in 2D or 2.5D software rendering or, where available, it can use the device’s OpenGL/ES hardware graphics engine for 2D, 2.5D, or full 3D effects. Meeting the UI demands of today with reduced implementation effort End-user expectations and the competitive pressures placed on device manufacturers result in the need to create highly differentiated and compelling UIs. This can often turn problematic for device Inflexion UI Express – Compelling UIs through a basic drag-and-drop approach. Product Features: Small, efficient UI Engine Ideally suited for all embedded devices 3D and animation effects Optimized full 3D or 3D effects with animation, without additional hardware or software UI Express tool Create, customize, and test UIs in a fraction of the typical effort without the need to write software Rendering services Exploiting the graphics accelerated hardware, zoom and scale images to any size, Alpha bending, transparency OpenGL/ES support UI Engine supports OpenGL/ES 1.1 and 2.0, taking advantage of available software and hardware acceleration Additional standards support Supports COLLADA™ from the Khronos Group, an open standard for 3D models Product Benefits: Rapid creation, customization, and testing of Android GUIs Deliver more compelling, more usable UIs in less time with a simple drag and drop tool Significant cost savings Less time is needed to develop and customize UIs; codeless customization capabilities enable differentiation with minimal effort Customize the UI without coding Radically rebrand existing Inflexion apps without software changes Mitigate development risks No coding is required to create the UI part of the application – software bugs are not introduced into the UI, resulting in significantly reduced project risks DATASHEET

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manufacturers as traditional UI tools are often not up to the task of meeting today’s demands (whether the platform is based on Android, Linux, or an RTOS). This means that manufacturers will have to create the UI by hand coding the software, which places a huge burden on the manufacturer both in terms of project timescales (project overruns or reduced UI functionality) and in expensive software engineering effort. Inflexion UI Express solves this problem – allowing state-of-the-art UIs to be created in a fraction of the time when compared to software coding. In addition, by providing...

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