Altia Font Modules Offer Improved Flexibility with Monotype Font Technologies for Legible Fonts on Globalized GUIs

With the release of Altia Design 11.4, Altia announces a new series of products, Font Modules. Altia Font Modules provide a gateway into the wide array of Monotype fonts and embedded font rendering software. Altia Font Modules are plug-in combinations of Font Engines and Shaping Engines that let users choose the right combination of Monotype solutions to deliver beautiful, legible text for global languages at the smallest possible footprint. These products are key for controlling appearance, memory size and performance of text that will display on embedded targets. Companies using Monotype’s font engine and shaping engine technologies can now leverage Altia Font Modules to deliver pin-sharp text for their production embedded displays. Monotype is a leader in helping to empower expression and engagement through type, technology and expertise.

Altia Font Modules support the following combinations of Monotype font engines and shaping engines to achieve the best combination of storage on chip and appearance on display.

• Monotype® iType® Font Engine with ICU (open source layout/shaper)
• Monotype iType Font Engine with Monotype WorldType® Shaper Software
• Monotype iType Spark™ Software with Monotype WorldType Shaper Spark Software
• Monotype iType Spark Software with ICU (open source layout/shaper)

Altia Font Modules combined with Monotype font technologies offer these key benefits for embedded GUI development.

• Support for most written languages
• Support for any text size at any resolution
• Font linking for optimized compression, font management and global script support
• Compression available for reduced font file sizes
• Hint processing for best font quality
• Lightweight integrations for low end hardware
• Full-featured combinations for the most complex font needs
• Dynamic scaling and rasterization of glyphs from TrueType font files
• Variety of output modes, including 1-bit monochrome, 2/4/6/8-bit grayscale, and outline

“Altia is an important partner that helps us serve our embedded display customers,” said Brett Zucker, senior vice president of product management and marketing at Monotype. “Altia’s toolset is tightly integrated with Monotype’s embedded type technology, and together they enable customers to create legible and aesthetically pleasing displays that convey consistent brand messaging to users around the world, even in resource-constrained environments.”

Embedded hardware supported by Altia Font Modules includes, but is not limited to, the following processors.

• Cypress Traveo S6J3200 (Spansion Amber-P)
• NXP VFxxx (Vybrid)
• NXP i.MX 6
• Renesas D1Mx
• Renesas R-Car D1H
• Renesas R-Car E2
• Renesas RZ/A1H
• Windows

For a complete list of hardware support or additional details about Font Modules and the various Font and Shaping Engines supported, click here.

About Altia…

Altia, Inc. is a software company that provides graphical user interface design and development tools that can be used from concept to final product code. Our GUI editor, Altia Design, offers development teams the capability to implement a model-based development process for clear communication and accelerated user interface development. Our code generator, Altia DeepScreen, supports a vast range of low- to high-powered processors from a variety of industry-leading silicon providers. Altia generates pure C source code that is optimized to take full advantage of hardware resources. Graphics code generated by Altia is driving millions of displays worldwide – from automotive instrument clusters, HUDs and radios to thermostats, washing machines and healthcare monitors. Our mission is to get the best automotive, medical and consumer interfaces into production in the shortest time on the lowest cost hardware.

Altia was founded in 1991 and its customers include Breville, Continental Automotive, Aston Martin, Smiths Medical, Renault, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, Medtronic, MTA, Johnson Controls, Magneti Marelli, Rolls-Royce, DAF Trucks, Visteon, NSI, Proctor & Gamble, Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. and many other leading manufacturers.

For more information about Altia, visit www.altia.com or email info@altia.com.

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The 21st International Congress on Advances in Automotive Electronics is coming to Ludwigsburg on 27 and 28 June 2017!

This event will include a two-day conference where speakers from BMW, Daimler, Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., Robert Bosch, Samsung Electronics, Volkswagen and more will discuss key electrical and electronic challenges for automotive companies, including:

• Megatrends
• Automated Driving
• Connectivity
• Digitization
• Software
• Electromobility 2.0

Altia will join key partners in the automotive ecosystem at the AEK Trade Exhibition — including Green Hills Software, Kugler Maag Cie, Mentor Automotive, Qualcomm, QNX, Renesas and many others.

Our HMI experts will be at the exhibition in Booth 8 to showcase our automotive industry standard HMI software in action on hardware. We’ll be showcasing our E-Cockpit demo – IVI, cluster and HUD – running on a single processor as well as new demos showcasing our advanced 3D capability.

For more information about Automobil Elektronik Kongress and to register for the event, click here. Will you be going to the show? If so, please email info@altia.com to set up a meeting with us.

Check out the stunning possibilities – custom graphics, cool 2D and 3D content, finely-tuned fonts and much more – available with Altia’s graphical user interface development software. Automotive, medical, consumer electronics and industrial device companies around the world use Altia to get market-winning embedded displays into production.

Altia GUI Development Software | Demo Reel from Altia, Inc. on Vimeo.

One of our brilliant engineers did THIS.

The game was created in Altia Design, our GUI editor. Graphics code for the STM32F7 was generated by Altia DeepScreen. COOL!

Adding 3D to your GUIs is a sure way to reshape the user experience of your device. Altia’s GUI development tools provide the power to integrate beautiful, informative and genuine 3D content for your production embedded GUIs.

Want to experience Altia’s turbocharged 3D for yourself? Check out our brand-new cluster demo with cool jet engine-shaped gauges.

We generated code for this same cluster concept with Altia DeepScreen. You can see it in action on the Renesas R-Car H3 right here.

Learn more about Altia’s incredible 3D capabilities on our new 3D page…AND we have new 3D features and capabilities coming soon! Click here to sign up and be among the first to learn about what’s coming in Altia Design 12.0.

Automotive innovators from OEMs, Tier 1s, ecosystem partners and more will converge at the 17th Annual Connected Car Conference and Expo, TU Automotive Detroit, on June 7-8. Altia will be there!

The event boasts 150+ speakers from companies including BMW, Continental, Ford, General Motors, Green Hills Software, Intel, Mercedes-Benz and Wind River who will present key topics about connected and autonomous cars – technical development, regulation, cybersecurity, wireless networking and the Smart Urban Ecosystem. Altia’s team is particularly excited to sit in on “HMI: Re-Imagining In-Car Experiences” and “AI: The Missing Link in Personalizing the Auto UX” at the conference.

Additionally, the event will include the world’s largest connected car expo where over 140 companies including Green Hills Software, Mentor Graphics, Texas Instruments and Wind River will be showcasing their innovative solutions for automotive technology.

For more information about TU Automotive Detroit, click here. Want to meet up with us at the show? Get in touch.

The future of automotive is now. Advanced 3D displays, haptic controls, advanced driver assistance systems are the innovations that will take automotive user experience to the next level – and Altia will get you there.

Altia is the key to connecting your next generation automotive displays to the future.

Our HMI development software integrates with the tools you need to generate visionary user interfaces while maintaining a clear focus on safety, performance and user experience requirements.

Stop by Altia’s Booth 50 at ConCarExpo 2017 on 5-6 July 2017 in Berlin to check out our graphics code at work on a sampling of low- to high-power hardware supported by Altia DeepScreen – from the Cypress Traveo S6J32 and Renesas RH850/D1L microcontrollers all the way up to the latest NXP i.MX 8 and Renesas R-Car H3 application processors.

We’ll also have two presentations this year!

• “Breaking Down the Automotive E-Cockpit Challenge” on July 5th at Automotive HMI & Connectivity Conference
• “Advanced 3D for Embedded Automotive Displays” on July 6 at ConCar Forums at ConCarExpo

For more information about ConCarExpo 2017, click here. Want to learn more about creating user interfaces of the future with Altia? Email us to request a meeting.

We’re just a few weeks away from the 21st International Congress on Advances in Automotive Electronics, coming to Ludwigsburg, Germany on June 27 and 28. Our team of HMI experts will be at the show to demonstrate Altia’s scalability across low- to high-powered hardware from the automotive industry’s leading silicon providers.

Here’s a sneak peek at the demos you’ll see at the show…

HVAC demo running on Cypress Traveo S6J32DA (Spansion Amethyst)

3D Cluster demo running on Renesas R-Car H3

To learn more about Altia-supported hardware and deploying custom HMIs for your next display project, visit Altia at Booth 8 of the exhibition.

We’ll see you in Ludwigsburg!

Altia has been awarded the designation of Preferred Supplier for Software by Continental AG. With this distinction, Continental recognizes the importance of its relationship with Altia for ensuring the company’s competitiveness and market leadership.

Continental puts an extremely high value on suppliers who offer above average expertise and performance. The company continually evaluates supplier delivery and execution to assure that this remains the case. To obtain a Preferred Supplier status, companies must receive an internal recommendation from a Continental representative and choose to operate according to Continental’s Supplier Code of Conduct.

For many years, Altia has supported Continental with software and services for automotive HMI programs. Continental’s design teams can leverage the Altia tool chain to create high performance, custom embedded interfaces – instrument clusters, head-up displays, radios and more – for their OEM customers. Altia’s graphical user interface development tools offer key features, like seamless integration of 3D content and advanced handling of global languages, for the development of innovative displays and intuitive user experience. Altia DeepScreen’s support of such a vast array of low- to high-powered hardware, including single and dual pipeline architectures, offers tremendous flexibility for automotive production. Furthermore, Altia’s focus on safety and certification provides Continental with the assurance that their Altia-designed interfaces will meet necessary standards for mission-critical systems.

Mike Juran, Altia CEO, states, “Altia maintains an extreme focus on customer satisfaction and product quality. We are very pleased that Continental has acknowledged our efforts by awarding Altia the Preferred Supplier designation. This is confirmation that Altia’s safety initiatives – including ASPICE, MISRA and ISO 26262 – provide value and confidence to our customers. We look forward to supporting Continental’s achievements for many years to come.”

“The Altia team considers our inclusion in Continental’s Preferred Supplier to be an important acknowledgement of the excellent work that Continental has achieved with Altia’s tools and services,” says Altia VP of Engineering, Michael Hill. “We appreciate the fact that the Preferred Supplier award is only possible through internal recommendations, so we extend our heartfelt gratitude to all of the Continental employees who contributed to this recognition and our shared success.”

About Altia…

Altia is a software company that provides graphical user interface design and development tools that can be used from concept to final product code. Our GUI editor, Altia Design, offers development teams the capability to implement a model-based development process for clear communication and accelerated user interface development. Our code generator, Altia DeepScreen, supports a vast range of low- to high-powered processors from a variety of industry-leading silicon providers. Altia generates pure C source code that is optimized to take full advantage of hardware resources. Graphics code generated by Altia is driving millions of displays worldwide – from automotive instrument clusters, HUDs and radios to thermostats, washing machines and healthcare monitors. Our mission is to get the best automotive, medical and consumer interfaces into production in the shortest time on the lowest cost hardware.

Altia was founded in 1991 and its customers include Aston Martin, Behr-Hella, COBO, Continental Automotive, DAF Trucks, Denso, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Honda, Renault, Magneti Marelli, MTA, Nippon Seiki, Rolls-Royce, Valeo, Visteon and many other leading manufacturers.

For more information about Altia, visit www.altia.com or email info@altia.com.

Follow Altia on Twitter and YouTube.

If you’re at TU Automotive Detroit today or tomorrow, be sure to stop by the Wind River booth to check out this cluster demo!

This is an NXP i.MX 6 with 1280×1024 display running Wind River VxWorks — with gorgeous graphics drawn in Altia Design and graphics code generated by Altia DeepScreen. The demo is double-buffered with partial screen redraw. It includes support for right-to-left languages and RLE image compression.

Want to meet with our team at the show to discuss your next HMI project? Email us at info@altia.com and we’ll get you connected.

Stop by the Green Hills Software booth at TU Automotive Detroit today to see this Altia cluster running Green Hills INTEGRITY on Renesas R-Car D1!

Want to connect with our team at the show today? Email info@altia.com.

Altia today announced support to scale Altia DeepScreen to NXP i.MX 8 applications processors.  The two companies share a long history of success for producing embedded HMIs and have a proven track record for providing intuitive, high-performance graphical user interfaces to customers. From NXP’s LPC1788 microcontrollers to S32V processors all the way to i.MX 6 applications processors, Altia DeepScreen supports the immense range of low to high-power hardware from NXP.

The NXP i.MX 8 family of processors provides industry-leading audio, voice and video processing to accommodate Internet of Things devices and advanced automotive displays – including multiple screen integrated cockpit applications. Resources included in the NXP i.MX 8 family can range from two ARM® Cortex®-A53 to a combination of four ARM® Cortex®-A53 with two ARM® Cortex®-A72 cores. The i.MX 8 family can run screens ranging from one to four 1080p displays or one 4K display.

“The i.MX 8 family is NXP’s latest offering for next generation embedded displays and offers a range of features to meet the needs of many devices that will benefit from advanced graphics,” said Ronald Martino, general manager and vice president of i.MX applications processor products at NXP. “Altia’s latest cluster gives a glimpse into the true power of this processor to our customers and partners.”

Altia’s advanced embedded GUI editor and graphics code generator are exceptionally suited for high power hardware like the NXP i.MX 8 applications processor. The Altia tool suite offers WYSIWYG support for software and hardware layers, allowing designers to get the most out of the i.MX 8’s advanced architecture. Additionally, Altia’s auto customers are increasingly working with 3D content. The bidirectional 3D model support within Altia allows for quick, easy iterations of dynamic, integrated 2D and 3D graphics for clusters, HUDs, IVIs and driver displays.

“The i.MX 8 will support a variety of the most advanced next generation HMIs – some of which will communicate mission-critical information. Over the last five years, Altia has dramatically increased its focus on safety and certification. Our initiatives focused on ASPICE, MISRA and ISO 26262 help us to deliver the highest quality software for embedding on powerful processors like the i.MX 8,” says Michael Hill, Altia Vice President of Engineering. “When automakers choose the proven i.MX platform with Altia, they benefit from a solid production pairing and the capability to deliver stunning, high performance graphics including 3D.”

About Altia

Altia is a software company that provides graphical user interface design and development tools that can be used from concept to final product code. Our GUI editor, Altia Design, offers development teams the capability to implement a model-based development process for clear communication and accelerated user interface development. Our code generator, Altia DeepScreen, supports a vast range of low- to high-powered processors from a variety of industry-leading silicon providers. Altia generates pure C source code that is optimized to take full advantage of hardware resources. Graphics code generated by Altia is driving millions of displays worldwide – from automotive instrument clusters, HUDs and radios to thermostats, washing machines and healthcare monitors. Our mission is to get the best automotive, medical and consumer interfaces into production in the shortest time on the lowest cost hardware.

Altia was founded in 1991. Its customers include automotive OEMs and Tier 1s like Continental Automotive, Denso, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Honda, Renault, Magneti Marelli, Nippon Seiki, Valeo, Visteon and more – plus leading consumer device manufacturers like Electrolux, Whirlpool, NordicTrack and many others.

For more information about Altia, visit www.altia.com or email info@altia.com.

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Altia announces the availability of a fully digital instrument cluster for the new Accordo 5 automotive family of processors from STMicroelectronics. With this demo, automakers considering this new chip for next generation automotive displays can experience the full range of state-of-the art features available on the Accordo 5, including impressive performance, 3D and more.

ST’s Accordo 5 family of multi-core SoCs is targeted for digital instrument cluster, display audio and navigation applications. These processors can include either a single or dual ARM® Cortex®A7 core with a speed of up to 800 MHz and an efficient 3D graphics processing unit. Automakers developing Altia HMIs for the Accordo5 can leverage its 2D and 3D graphics support for common formats like OpenGL ES 2.0. Altia’s easy-to-use software provides a WYSIWYG approach for leveraging both virtual and hardware layers for blending graphics, maximizing color depth or overlaying video.

“With the powerful and cost-efficient Accordo 5 family of dual-core infotainment processors, automakers will be able to deliver a high-end look and feel to any car – including mid and entry vehicles,” said Brian Pluckebaum, Marketing Development Principal Engineer, STMicroelectronics. “Beyond managing the screen in the dashboard instrument cluster, the Accordo 5 also offers a novel and cost-effective approach to driving analog gauges. We look forward to demonstrating the powerful features of this new processor with the cluster HMI (Human-Machine Interface) developed with Altia user-interface development software.”

Altia is perfectly suited to deliver high-performance HMIs for processors like the Accordo 5. The Altia tool chain supports the range of low-end processors to high-end systems, delivering custom graphics code optimized for each project’s target. With its integrated and easy-to-use 3D design flow, global language support and quality initiatives for ASPICE, MISRA and ISO 26262, Altia is a clear choice for developing safe and innovative displays for automotive applications.

About Altia…

Altia is a software company that provides graphical user interface design and development tools that can be used from concept to final product code. Our GUI editor, Altia Design, offers development teams the capability to implement a model-based development process for clear communication and accelerated user interface development. Our code generator, Altia DeepScreen, supports a vast range of low- to high-powered processors from a variety of industry-leading silicon providers. Altia generates pure C source code that is optimized to take full advantage of hardware resources. Graphics code generated by Altia is driving millions of displays worldwide – from automotive instrument clusters, HUDs and radios to thermostats, washing machines and healthcare monitors. Our mission is to get the best automotive, medical and consumer interfaces into production in the shortest time on the lowest cost hardware.

Altia was founded in 1991 and its customers include Aston Martin, Behr-Hella, COBO, Continental Automotive, DAF Trucks, Denso, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Honda, Renault, Magneti Marelli, MTA, Nippon Seiki, Rolls-Royce, Valeo, Visteon and many other leading manufacturers.

For more information about Altia, visit www.altia.com or email info@altia.com.

Follow Altia on Twitter and YouTube.

Altia and Green Hills Software announce the new code generation support for the Renesas R-Car D1 using Altia HMI development software and Green Hills INTEGRITY real-time separation kernel with INTEGRITY Multivisor virtualization solution. This combination of technologies is already slated for production for numerous automotive instrument clusters.

The Renesas R-Car D1 series offers tremendous benefits for cluster systems, including enablement of 3D content, high-speed system start-up and functional safety mechanisms. At press time, the R-Car D1 can have either one or two ARM Cortex-A7 cores. To drive graphics, the R-Car D1 has both RGL and OpenGL ES 2.0 pipelines – both of which Altia leverages to deliver optimized graphics performance. Additionally, because the R-Car D1 includes the same 2D graphics system as the one used in the Renesas RH850/D1M, HMI development teams using Altia can easily migrate 2D graphics development assets and further develop 3D graphic assets for the R-Car D1.

The code generation target for Renesas R-Car D1 is tailored to run on the Green Hills INTEGRITY real-time separation kernel and INTEGRITY Multivisor. With this automotive-grade platform, embedded developers are ensured that their applications meet the highest possible security, reliability and performance standards. The INTEGRITY products isolate and protect embedded applications using a memory-partitioning architecture. Secure partitions are created, guaranteeing that each task has available the resources it needs to run correctly. These secure partitions fully protect the INTEGRITY operating system and native user tasks from safety and security threats like malicious code or guest OSs.

“The combination of Green Hills Software’s ISO 26262 and IEC 61508-certified INTEGRITY RTOS and Altia’s HMI development software and tuned code generation for the Renesas R-Car D1 enables Tier 1 developers to create world-class digital instrument clusters and progress into consolidated cluster plus IVI systems on a single SOC,” says Chris Tubbs, business development director, EMEA, Green Hills Software.

This version of Altia’s target for Renesas R-Car D1 is tuned to run on Green Hills INTEGRITY. To create an HMI for this target, Altia Design pulls together 2D and 3D graphic assets into a single model. Altia DeepScreen then generates production-ready C code that takes full advantage of the Green Hills RTOS and the on-chip assets of the R-Car D1. Altia’s focus on delivering the highest quality software – including company initiatives for ASPICE, MISRA and ISO 26262 – make Altia and Green Hills INTEGRITY a perfect pairing for automotive production.

About Altia

Altia is a software company that provides graphical user interface design and development tools that can be used from concept to final product code. Our GUI editor, Altia Design, offers development teams the capability to implement a model-based development process for clear communication and accelerated user interface development. Our code generator, Altia DeepScreen, supports a vast range of low- to high-powered processors from a variety of industry-leading silicon providers. Altia generates pure C source code that is optimized to take full advantage of hardware resources. Graphics code generated by Altia is driving millions of displays worldwide – from automotive instrument clusters, HUDs and radios to thermostats, washing machines and healthcare monitors. Our mission is to get the best automotive, medical and consumer interfaces into production in the shortest time on the lowest cost hardware.

Altia achieved ASPICE Level 1 in September 2016 and is progressing toward ASPICE Level 3.

Altia was founded in 1991 and its customers include Aston Martin, Behr-Hella, COBO, Continental Automotive, DAF Trucks, Denso, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, GM, Honda, Renault, Magneti Marelli, MTA, Nippon Seiki, Rolls-Royce, Valeo, Visteon and many other leading manufacturers.

For more information about Altia, visit www.altia.com or email info@altia.com.

Follow Altia on Twitter and YouTube.

About Green Hills Software

Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is the largest independent vendor of embedded development solutions. In 2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY-178 RTOS was the first and only operating system to be certified by NIAP (National Information Assurance Partnership comprised of NSA & NIST) to EAL 6+, High Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any software product. Our open architecture integrated development solutions address deeply embedded, absolute security and high-reliability applications for the military/avionics, medical, industrial, automotive, networking, consumer and other markets that demand industry-certified solutions. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software at www.ghs.com.

Green Hills, the Green Hills logo and INTEGRITY are trademarks or registered trademarks of Green Hills Software in the U.S. and/or internationally. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

North American Sales Contact:
Green Hills Software
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Website: www.ghs.com

Email: info@ghs.com

International Sales Contact:
Green Hills Software Ltd
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Email: mktg-europe@ghs.com

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NXP FTF Connects is coming to Detroit on August 15 and 16!

With this event, NXP offers two days of technical training and industry insights from customers and respected thought leaders — plus a Technology Lab where visitors are invited to experience 150+ interactive demos of cutting edge technologies and network with their peers to discuss next generation innovation and the evolving tech landscape.

Meet the Altia team in the Technology Lab, where we will be demonstrating Altia’s powerful user interface development software both in editor and on embedded hardware from NXP.

Additionally, be sure to register for “Designing HMI Applications to Meet ISO 26262 Safety Requirements” on Tuesday, August 15th at 4 PM in the Galilee room (reference class number AMF-AUTT2734), which will be presented by Altia’s own Senior Solutions Architect, Pat Shelly.

Details about the event are as follows:

When:  August 15-16, 2017
Where:  Inn at St. John’s | 44045 Five Mile Road | Plymouth, Michigan 48170
Cost:  Free

For more information about NXP FTF Connects in Detroit and to register, click here. Want to set up a meeting with us while you’re at the event? Let us know.

Altia is pleased to announce their ISO 26262 engineering products and services. These offerings – ranging from safety activity monitoring software to hands-on ISO 26262 training – address the requirements for automotive OEMs and Tier 1s to provide functionally safe embedded HMIs.

Altia’s new product, the Safety Activity Monitor, is an ISO 26262-compliant safety element out of context (SEooC) which ensures the correctness of items on an embedded display. The Altia Safety Activity Monitor is implemented as part of Altia DeepScreen code generation.

New ISO 26262-related Altia engineering services are ideal for automotive OEMs and Tier 1s who are seeking to develop and deploy embedded HMI solutions that are cost-effective across their cluster, HUD or driver display systems. With trained ISO 26262 experts on Altia’s global engineering team plus regular and ongoing training for additional staff members, Altia is uniquely qualified to offer Functional Safety consulting, design and architecture services that are geared toward HMI applications.

Altia’s new products and services are natural complements to the company’s strong quality and safety culture rooted in ASPICE and ISO 26262 processes. With millions of Altia HMIs on the road around the globe, Altia delivers safe, production-proven user interface development software along with ISO 26262 expertise to deliver safety-critical HMI programs.

For more information about the Altia Safety Activity Monitor or ISO 26262 engineering services, click here or email info@altia.com.

About Altia

Altia, Inc. is a software company that provides graphical user interface design and development tools that can be used from concept to final product code. Our GUI editor, Altia Design, offers development teams the capability to implement a model-based development process for clear communication and accelerated user interface development. Our code generator, Altia DeepScreen, supports a vast range of low- to high-powered processors from a variety of industry-leading silicon providers. Altia generates pure C source code that is optimized to take full advantage of hardware resources. Graphics code generated by Altia is driving millions of displays worldwide – from automotive instrument clusters, HUDs and radios to thermostats, washing machines and healthcare monitors. Our mission is to get the best automotive, medical and consumer interfaces into production in the shortest time on the lowest cost hardware.

Altia was founded in 1991 and its customers include Aston Martin, Behr-Hella, COBO, Continental Automotive, DAF Trucks, Denso, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, GM, Honda, Renault, Magneti Marelli, MTA, Nippon Seiki, Rolls-Royce, Valeo, Visteon and many other leading manufacturers.

For more information about Altia, visit www.altia.com or email info@altia.com.

Follow Altia on Twitter and YouTube.

Altia will join the GENIVI Alliance and its global development community at the GENIVI All Member Meeting & Open Community Days in Seoul, Korea on October 10-12, 2017 at the Grand Hyatt Seoul.

GENIVI members will be meeting to further our work delivering IVI and connected vehicle software. Together, we will also continue to explore communication across safety, infotainment and consumer electronic software domains – an important and emerging automotive industry trend.

Non-members are invited to attend the GENIVI Seoul Open Community Days on Wednesday, October 11 and Thursday, October 12. The schedule for the Open Community days will include keynote addresses from Mr. Dong-Il Park, Senior Vice President of Hyundai Motor Company, and Dr. Jin-Yong Kim, Executive Vice President of LG Electronics. Additionally, technical sessions will be presented on topics ranging from security, autonomous driving, IVI applications, app management and more.

Meet Altia’s team at the GENIVI Member Showcase & Reception on Wednesday, October 11 from 17:30 to 21:00. Members of Altia’s global sales, marketing and technical team will be previewing the 3D capabilities available in our upcoming release of Altia Design. Additionally, we will showcase several examples of Altia-generated graphics code running on automotive-grade hardware.

For more information about this event and to register, click here. If you are a non-member and you would like to join the evening on October 11 and 12, please contact Karin Hanson at karinha@khansonevents.com to secure a promo code required for registration.

Want to meet up with Altia while we’re at the event? Email us at info@altia.com.

We hope to see you in Seoul!

Today, Renesas announced its high-performance R-Car D3 automotive infotainment SoC to the world at the Renesas R-Car Consortium in Tokyo. Key features of this new SoC — as noted by Renesas in their press release about the new product — include a 3D graphics core which enables high-performance HMIs plus a reduced system development cost equivalent to those of existing 2D cluster systems.

Altia showcased our own 3D cluster demo on Renesas R-Car D3 at the R-Car Consortium event today! Check it out here:

Altia is a perfect HMI development solution for this new target — with outstanding advanced 3D capabilities and graphics code optimized to leverage on-chip resources of the target. Additionally, Altia’s quality and safety standards are rooted in ASPICE and ISO 26262 processes, which is necessary to deliver safety-critical embedded displays like the clusters for which the R-Car D3 was designed.

Renesas quoted Altia VP of Global Engineering Services, Lynwood Stanley, in their press announcement today about the pairing of Altia’s HMI development software with the R-Car D3.

“For practical implementation of autonomous driving, the instrument cluster needs to instantly, accurately, and safely report a wide variety of information to the driver. The Renesas R-Car D3, which provides powerful graphics capabilities and critical functional safety features for instrument clusters, is expected to revolutionize the 3D cluster user experience,” said Lynwood Stanley, Vice President of Global Engineering Services at Altia. “Altia is using our DeepScreen code generator, which optimizes the HMI code, for the Renesas R-Car with the goal to deliver the highest-performance embedded HMIs to the market.”

Altia’s 3D cluster demo running on R-Car D3 will also be on display at the first ever European R-Car Consortium event on Thursday, November 9th in Düsseldorf. Stop by our booth at the event to see it in action — or, for more information, email us at info@altia.com.

Altia and Cypress Semiconductor Corp. announce Altia HMI code generation support for the Cypress Traveo™ Automotive Microcontroller (MCU) family. The combination provides automotive manufacturers with a cost-efficient platform to deliver sophisticated graphics with advanced functionality for instrument clusters, HUDs and HVAC displays. The Altia code generation solution for the Traveo family has been selected for production by multiple global automotive OEM and Tier 1 suppliers.

The Cypress Traveo family features 32-bit RISC microcontrollers with an ARM® Cortex®-R5 core with up to 240 MHz performance that deliver high-end graphics in single-chip MCU solutions. The microcontrollers are equipped with an efficient 2D/3D graphic engine and integrate features for speed, memory savings, security, functional safety and high image quality. Additionally, the Traveo family meets demanding requirements for performance and quality necessary for automotive applications.

“Our automotive customers are looking for efficient ways to differentiate their vehicles with visually appealing, intuitive graphics for their instrument clusters and head-up and HVAC displays,” said Mathias Braeuer, marketing director for the Automotive Business Unit at Cypress. “Our collaboration with Altia has enabled Cypress to solve this problem for our customers with a complete display solution that delivers the dynamic user experience consumers want.”

Altia’s DeepScreen code generation target for the Cypress Traveo family is optimized to take full advantage of the resources available on chip. The combined Altia and Cypress Traveo solution delivers state-of-the-art graphics for projects requiring lower system cost, low power silicon. Cypress also offers a broad automotive portfolio with NOR flash memory, PSoC® MCUs and Power Management ICs, which add value to the overall system solution.

To create an HMI for Traveo, Altia Design, a WYSIWYG user interface editor, pulls together a variety of graphic assets into a single model. Altia DeepScreen then generates production-ready C code that leverages the unique resources available on the microcontroller to deliver a pleasing user experience for production embedded displays.

“Because of the unique architecture of Altia DeepScreen-generated code, Altia helps companies deliver functionally safe, innovative graphical displays for compact cars. Cypress offers a top-notch automotive production hardware solution for these applications with the Traveo MCU family,” said Jason Williamson, Altia Vice President of Marketing. “This cost-effective hardware solution provides speed and a powerful graphics engine to deliver high-performance graphics, as well as key features for safety and quality, which are imperative for safety-critical applications like automotive clusters and head-up displays.” 

About Altia

Altia is a software company that provides graphical user interface design and development tools that can be used from concept to final product code. Our GUI editor, Altia Design, offers development teams the capability to implement a model-based development process for clear communication and accelerated user interface development. Our code generator, Altia DeepScreen, supports a vast range of low- to high-powered processors from a variety of industry-leading silicon providers. Altia generates pure C source code that is optimized to take full advantage of hardware resources. Graphics code generated by Altia is driving millions of displays worldwide – from automotive instrument clusters, HUDs and radios to thermostats, washing machines and healthcare monitors. Our mission is to get the best automotive, medical and consumer interfaces into production in the shortest time on the lowest cost hardware.

Altia was founded in 1991. Its customers include automotive OEMs and Tier 1s like Continental Automotive, Denso, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Honda, Renault, Magneti Marelli, Nippon Seiki, Valeo, Visteon and more – plus leading consumer device manufacturers like Electrolux, Whirlpool, NordicTrack and many others.

For more information about Altia, visit www.altia.com or email info@altia.com.

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About Cypress

Cypress is the leader in advanced embedded system solutions for the world’s most innovative automotive, industrial, home automation and appliances, consumer electronics and medical products. Cypress’ programmable systems-on-chip, general-purpose microcontrollers, analog ICs, wireless and USB-based connectivity solutions and reliable, high-performance memories help engineers design differentiated products and get them to market first. Cypress is committed to providing customers with the best support and engineering resources on the planet enabling innovators and out-of-the-box thinkers to disrupt markets and create new product categories in record time. To learn more, go to www.cypress.com.

Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks and Traveo is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

New Release of HMI Development Software Includes Timeline Animation Editor Plus Comprehensive 3D Capabilities

Altia announces the new Altia Design 12.0, which provides powerful features and functionality for developers to create and deploy first class embedded displays for automotive, medical, consumer and industrial devices. The new Timeline Animation Editor displays object and material attributes for both 2D and 3D content, allowing developers to create advanced animations with ease. New capabilities for 3D customers make it simpler than ever to incorporate 3D content and advanced animations in a human-machine interface (HMI).

The all-new Timeline Animation Editor is a powerful new tool that allows users to create and sync up sophisticated animations for impressive effects. Developers can view animations and their interactions in an intuitive timeline layout and then control 2D and 3D content via the same timeline. A new library of tweening options – bounce, elastic, sine, cubic, quint and more – is available in the new Timeline Animation Editor, offering developers a variety of choices for interesting keyframe animations in their HMIs. Moreover, the new Timeline Animation Editor can even be used with legacy Altia models.

With Altia Design 12.0, Altia 3D customers also gain tremendous power over the 3D content in their user interfaces. FBX files from all popular 3D tools can be imported into Altia with their animation hierarchies intact. This means that once 3D content is imported in the Altia editor, users can tweak animations and appearance right alongside 2D content. A new material library provides cool skins for common materials — paint, glass, leather, rubber and more – that have been tested and optimized for embedded applications. Complete, customizable shaders are provided – and no GLSL coding is required. Furthermore, with the reuse of generated assets at code generation, Altia Design 12.0 opens the door for deploying 3D user interfaces on even lower power hardware.

This release of Altia Design includes automatic text eliding and improved support for 4K monitors. Altia is also proud to announce that it continues its commitment to developing DeepScreen targets under ASPICE and ISO 26262 standards and processes necessary to deliver safety-critical user embedded displays.

For more information about Altia Design 12.0 or to request a demo by one of Altia’s GUI experts, visit our website or email info@altia.com.