Do you face these kinds of challenges?

• It’s a challenge delivering a rich UI experience on resource-constrained embedded devices
• It’s a challenge nailing product delivery dates because we’re often going back and forth between the UI designers and the embedded systems engineers
• It’s not possible to leverage our past product development investments; we start each new project from scratch
• It's a challenge working with today’s UI development tools that were designed for the desktop—not embedded systems
• It’s a challenge working with tools that aren’t portable across OSs

The Crank Storyboard Suite of UI prototyping and visualization products solve the challenges you face today.

With each new project, you face the same old challenges. The Crank Storyboard Suite was developed by engineers for engineers. It's an embedded UI development optimization suite for manufacturers of resource-constrained embedded devices requring a rich user interface, and it corrects the technical gap that exists today between what the UI experts define and what the engineers deliver. It enables UI designers to do what they do best; it enables engineers to do what they do best. It's a complete tool that allows the team to work in parallel, yet independently, to achieve the best possible user interface experience.

• OS-agnostic Embedded Engine supports any hardware the OS supports
• Embedded Engine does debugging, traceability, and performance metrics
• Embedded Engine is written in C and source code access is possible for profiling, optimization, testing, and validation
• Scalable through plug-in architecture and can be customized for the requirements of your environment
• Memory requirements scale to your needs. Expect about 200-500K depending on the profile plus the sum of all of the graphical assets on the current displayed screen. Minimizes impact on bill of materials (BOM).
• Clean design, clean architecture, and drag-and-drop functionality
• Leverages the Eclipse™ environment
• GPU hardware optimized
• The UI prototype is your product

Shorten the design cycle, make the best use of your resources, optimize hardware performance

• Your UI designer can take a PSD file and see it onscreen within 5 minutes.
• Commercializing a GPS golf card would typically take 4-man months (75 days). Our customer used Storyboard to complete their end-to-end development lifecycle in one and a half man months (30 days)—accelerated time to market by 60% plus reduced the development costs.
• Our customer exceeded an aggressive timeline deploying a stereo receiver that enabled browsing an iPod on TV. Storyboard is the innovation that made it possible to reduce their development cycle from months to weeks.
• Embedded Engine uses approximately 30-80% less CPU. Embedded Engine understands CPU usage, memory utilization, graphical display depth, hard offloading, embedded architecture, and communication optimized hardware. Embedded Engine utilizes the hardware to increase the performance and capabilities. An example of this is a slide from one screen to another—it can be done using the hardware layers found on most ARM processors and allow for smooth screen transitions with next to no CPU usage and zero dropped frames.
• Embedded Engine is native-UI technology, which delivers 30 frames of animation per second on low-end hardware.