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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
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