FTDI Teams up with MikroElektronika to Provide Development Support for EVE GUI Platform
FTDI Chip, as part of its effort to help engineers create economical graphical user interfaces (GUIs), offers advanced software support for its new Embedded Video Engine (EVE) family through third party partnership. It has collaborated with tool chain vendor MikroElektronika, providing it with detailed libraries for accessing the popular Visual TFT graphic development solution.
The EVE family has an object based structure (where objects can be images, fonts, etc) that presents engineers with an easy way to design more effective GUIs for TFTs, with all the display, audio and touch functionality included. Visual TFT, from MikroElektronika, is a standalone software environment in which EVE objects can be dragged and dropped onto a palette in order to build complex applications. It uses this graphic input and generates code that is compatible with MikroElektronika's range of compilers. This can then be placed onto the system microcontroller.
"A wide variety of industry sectors are now demanding more sophisticated forms of human-machine interaction and expecting more satisfying user experiences. EVE integrates display, audio and touch onto a low cost, easy-to-use, single-chip solution," Fred Dart, CEO and founder of FTDI Chip, explains. "By working with MikroElektronika, we are now in a position to complement our EVE offering with a comprehensive design environment."
"Combining FTDI Chip's EVE family with our Visual TFT offering will facilitate the rapid construction of GUIs that are highly intuitive in nature," states Aleksandar Nikolic, Product Manager at MikroElektronika. "This will have a major impact on a broad cross section of TFT implementations."
About FTDI Chip
FTDI Chip specialises in the design and delivery of advanced silicon and software solutions. The company focuses on providing engineers with feature-rich, easy to use, robust products that will speed to market and reduce development costs. Widely recognised for its broad portfolio of Universal Serial Bus (USB) products, FTDI Chip can offer a simple route to USB migration by combining easy-to-implement ICs with proven, ready-to-use, royalty-free firmware and driver software. It has everything from simple bridge devices for converting USB from RS232, RS422, RS485, I2C, SPI, etc, to highly integrated system solutions with built in microcontrollers and sophisticated development platforms.
FTDI Chip has now further expanded its "made easy" philosophy, with the addition of simple to use display controllers that combine display, audio and touch functionality in a single compact package with accompanying development software, for creating Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs) suitable for a wide variety of low-power microcontrollers.
FTDI Chip is a fab-less semiconductor company, headquartered in Glasgow, UK, with research and development facilities located in both Glasgow, Singapore and Taipei, Taiwan, plus regional sales and technical support sites in Glasgow; Portland, Oregon, USA; Shanghai, China; and Taipei.
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