Comprehensive Graphics Toolkit Allows Creation of Smartphone-like User Experiences on Ultra-Low-End Hardware in Markets as Diverse as Connected Transportation, Medical Devices, Industrial HMIs and Robotics, and Consumer Electronics
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Key features in Qt for MCUs 1.0
· Fits into an MCUs internal memory
· Bare metal, no RTOS needed
· Reuse competencies and UI assets between Qt Quick Ultralite and Qt Quick
· Localization for left-to-right languages
· Supported in Qt Creator v4.11
Main benefits
· Smartphone-like UX on low end hardware
· Reuse source code across ARM architectures
· Fast development with QML and Qt Tools
In today's environment, manufacturers face high user expectations, faster product cycles, stagnant growth in the developer workforce, and margin pressure. In order to stay relevant, they must differentiate through software. Until now, Qt's embedded offering has supported higher level microprocessing units (MPUs), but with Qt's new offering, customers can leverage the same tools, technology, and skillsets across their entire product range and throughout their organization, reducing costs of hardware and maintenance by focusing on one technology for all their development work. Focusing on one technology approach also enables manufacturers to keep a consistent branded user experience across their entire product line and reuse code across hardware architectures.
Today's devices are smarter and offer more advanced features and capabilities than ever before, which, in turn, has raised customer expectations for highly immersive and engaging applications and UIs. This is especially true for connected devices found in rapidly-growing sectors, such as connected vehicles (in-vehicle infotainment systems and clusters), wearables (fitness trackers, smart watches), the smart home (including appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines), industrial (handheld devices, measuring devices) and healthcare (medical devices). In order to meet and exceed these expectations, application developers and device creators must deliver an engaging, intuitive user experience that is on par with that of today's smartphones while at the same time keeping their bill of materials low.
Qt for MCUs offers a comprehensive toolkit to enable new and existing users to deliver the user experiences their customers demand. Leveraging Qt's popular QML technology and developer-designer tooling, Qt for MCUs allows a fast, iterative way to develop Qt applications - with the front end defined in declarative QML, and with business logic implemented in C/C++. The result is a fluid, graphical UI that greatly enhances applications running on microcontrollers.
"Customers across industries are demanding powerful, highly intuitive applications, such as those they already enjoy on their smartphones, but scaled down to lower-end hardware," said Petteri Holländer, SVP of Product Management,
"What's more, customers are no longer forced to update their legacy applications by taking months to rewrite the code base for those applications," he said. "They can use Qt to modernize and customize them in a fraction of the time."
Resources
Qt Quick Ultralite is now available to download, evaluate and purchase. For additional information, visit www.qt.io/qt-for-mcus.
For more details:
· Read the release blog post (https://www.qt.io/blog)
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