Suitability Check

Is Embedded Wizard suitable for your product development? The following list of typical requirements helps you to find the answer!

 

Input & Events

  • Keyboard and Mouse 
  • Touch Screen inkl. Gestures 
  • IR Remote Control
  • Proprietary keys, keypads, knobs…
  • Adaptable interface for customer specific inputs and events

 

Output & Display

  • Support of all common screen resolutions and aspect ratios, e.g. CGA, QVGA, VGA, SVGA, PAL, NTSC, HD 720, HD 1080. 
  • Freely adjustable screen resolution 
  • Color Formats: 8bit index, 16bit, 32bit True Color with or without alpha blending (*depending on hardware) 
  • Adaptation to proprietary color formats 
  • Support of two displays, depending on hardware 

 

Design

  • Basic menu widgets e.g. buttons, sliders, panels. 
  • Creation of own, customer specific widgets 
  • Import of own graphics and True Type Fonts 
  • Support of alpha blending, transparency and fading (*depending on hardware) 
  • Transparency to background, e.g. for video or image viewer overlay. 
  • 2D Effects, e.g. moving objects, rotation (*depending on hardware) 
  • 3D Effects, e.g. zooming, perpective transformation (*depending on hardware, e.g. available 3D core or suitable processing power, like  >200 MIPS for VGA resolution) 

 

Integration

  • Interaction with main application via events 
  • Integration with HTML Browser, e.g. overlay with UI objects like keyboard. 
  • Coexistence with Flash: Content can be presented in a transparent section of the Embedded Wizard GUI and e.g. overlayed and controlled by UI objects. 

 

Hardware and OS

  • Support of over 40 hardware platforms: See complete list. 
  • Minimum chipset requirements: 32-bit architecture, > 100 MIPS, access to framebuffer.
  • Support of common OS, like Embedded Linux, Windows Embedded, VxWorks, pSOS, and proprietary OS. 
  • Direct adaptation to hardware without OS is supported.