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The last few years have seen a significant increase in the number of embedded products containing an integrated graphical display. While this is providing consumers with a more visually appealing presentation of information, it’s introducing challenges for the embedded development team. As well as the system level specifications, product requirements now must also include details about the visual presentation of the product.
Often, the graphic design team is detached from the standard software development team, which leads to an “over the fence” style of development. Graphic artifacts such as images and screen designs are handed off to software developers who try to interpret them and attempt to make them fit into the rest of the system design. The two teams are often quite disconnected leading to inevitable integration problems.
Our white paper examines some of the technical issues that graphic designers and system engineers need to be aware of when designing a graphical product for the embedded market and looks at tools to facilitate the graphic design process for embedded systems by assisting with integration and highlighting technical issues early in the development cycle.
Storyboard now provides support for OpenVG. But what does that mean to you? With the growing market demand for handheld portable devices, semiconductor vendors are introducing hardware-based accelerators. Support for Open VG enables Storyboard to take advantage of this hardware acceleration at very low power levels to ensure fluid interactive performance of your graphics. Bottom line: accelerated hardware performance renders higher quality graphics, renders higher quality graphics faster and, ultimately, delivers a higher quality experience.
While best known for our flagship UI development solution, Crank Storyboard Suite, our roots are in embedded systems development. Our consulting and embedded development services accelerate the design lifecycle to get your product to market on time, on budget, on spec—and with less risk.
Crank Software’s engineering team offers your organization extensive experience working in the field of real-time and embedded software development including graphical processing units, CPU architectures, operating systems, graphical toolkits, and the Eclipse™ development framework.
We also offer WebKit support and services. Many companies would like to integrate WebKit into their next project; however, the challenge associated with maintaining and integrating a large source base not developed internally involves too much risk. To assist you in minimizing risk and help you get to market faster, we provide custom support plans and development services for WebKit.
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