Easily prototype, simulate, validate, and deploy graphical displays.
Overview
Crank™ Storyboard™ Designer enables user interface (UI) designers to easily prototype the look and feel of a product, and then move the prototype directly to the embedded target for deployment. UI designers maintain full control over the UI and user experience (UX) without having to perform a hand off to an embedded systems engineer for implementation.
Designed for rapid development—parallel design, test, and development efforts
Ease of import/update from all popular formats (jpeg, png, psd, and more). Direct import from Adobe PhotoShop.
Identical visual representation of graphical content from simulator to embedded target
Interactive UI design; immediate design feedback
Graphical management of screen animations
Scripting engine
Embedded interface simulator

Storyboard Designer
Crank Storyboard Suite’s UI prototyping and visualization products solve the challenges you face today.
- OS-agnostic Crank Storyboard 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
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