Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite enables the development and deployment of rich user interfaces for multifunctional embedded devices, to create a better end-user experience.

The quality of a device's graphical user interface (GUI) can make or break your product. Yet developing GUIs has traditionally been a time-consuming, costly, and risky process. The Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite reduces the complexity of GUI development, enabling you to develop high-quality embedded GUIs faster and more cost-effectively. It boasts a complete set of tools such as an interface builder, an API for integration with your application, and a robust embedded graphics engine to render the graphic objects. Its unique architecture enables embedded developers to easily produce and rebrand user interfaces at a fraction of the cost of traditional GUI software.

With its Adobe Photoshop import feature, artists and engineers can now interact seamlessly, making a rich user interface easy to build.

Benefits

• Deploy high-quality embedded GUIs faster and more cost-effectively.
• Design, prototype, simulate, and test an embedded GUI early in development without coding.
• Integrate a GUI quickly with your embedded platform using the Tilcon GUI engine.
• Use with Wind River's VxWorks and Wind River Linux operating systems.

Results

• Superior user interface: An appealing, user-centric, graphical interface drives higher adoption rates—and sales.
• Dramatically faster time-to-market: Streamlined, codeless GUI development generates a competitive advantage with minimal effort and development time.
• Reduced cost and risk: Simpler, smoother development consumes fewer resources and reduces project risk.
• Greater agility: User interface modification without application changes makes revision and rebranding simpler.

Features

Unique Host-to-Target GUI Development Tool

• Visual development: Develop your embedded GUI visually, using a drag-and-drop environment.
• Instant product integration: Instantly download to your embedded device an interface developed and tested on your host PC.
• Easily change the interface: Quickly iterate your GUI without having to rebuild your application with each change.
• Portability and cross-platform compatibility: Get seamless portability and true cross-platform compatibility with identical APIs on all supported platforms.

Interface Creation Tools for Complete Application Prototyping

• Anti-aliasing: Generate smooth edges for a high-quality look and feel.
• Alpha blending: Smoothly blend one object into another, moving, scrolling, and scaling the alpha-blended object.
• WYSIWYG development environment: Reduce training and the need for experience with easy-to-use drag-and-drop tool.
• Photoshop import/export: Load professionally designed graphic elements directly into your GUIs—no cut-and-paste required.
• Codeless animation: Use complex effects and animated graphics in any screen, with no costly coding.
• Easy customization: Customize with straightforward property sheets.

No Coding to Fully Prototype or Simulate Interface

• Enhanced usability: Easily model your application front end and explore new concepts in usability before writing a single line of product code.
• A "socialized" interface: Share concepts easily across the organization—with management, engineers, designers, and users—with self-contained executables that show your ideas in action.
• Easy testing: See a GUI snapshot at any time during the design and development process, and the prototype becomes the product.

Rich Selection of User Interface Objects

• Widget library: Use existing library for buttons, meters, gauges, charts, and more, or create your own objects using Wind River Tilcon Interface Development Tool (formerly Tilcon Interface Development Suite).

Wind River Tilcon Interface Development Tool

Build a better GUI faster, with drag-and-drop simplicity, using Tilcon Interface Development Tool (formerly Tilcon Interface Development Suite).

• GUI design and development made easy
  • Build a user-centric GUI instead of an engineering-centric one.
  • Avoid costly product changes late in the development cycle.
  • Use drag-and-drop simplicity.
• An upfront GUI
  • Get input from designers, engineers, and usability experts in the earliest stages of development.
• Adobe Photoshop import
  • Bring completed elements and backgrounds into your GUI from Photoshop.
• Codeless development
  • Build and test graphics visually in real-time, without application code, third-party libraries, or recompilation.
• Prototype to product
  • Quickly create a complete, working, user-centric interface without impacting the product development schedule.

Wind River Tilcon Interface Builder

Wind River Tilcon GUI Engine

The Tilcon GUI Engine (formerly Tilcon Embedded Vector Engine) handles all low-level graphics code, fonts, text, images, colors, and more. All object functionality and behavior are preprogrammed. Simply attach a pre-integrated, tested, and optimized Tilcon GUI Engine to your device hardware platform for a finished product, complete with a GUI that provides display speed, maximum functionality, and optimal performance.

• Portable, proven, and optimized: Download interface screens to a product instantly with a pre-optimized embedded GUI engine for your target of choice.
• Easy integration testing: Build and test graphic objects in real-time without coding to quickly test your product with its interface.
• Low-impact hardware and software changes: Run graphic objects anywhere the Tilcon engine runs. No more risk associated with underlying application changes and no porting required.
• Instant rebrand and reskin: Change any graphic element and view it immediately. No more building, testing, and downloading to the target.