Tilcon describes its
Interface Development Suite (IDS) as a "complete user interface infrastructure allowing developers to rapidly create custom, high quality user interfaces, instrument clusters, and complex visualization systems." According to the company, IDS is incorporates an intelligent, scalable "Embedded Vector Engine" (EVE) that provides display and user interaction functions for use by client applications. The resulting screens run unchanged on all Tilcon-supported operating systems, including Windows CE, Windows XP, Linux, VxWorks, and QNX, the company claims.
Telelogic's product, Rhapsody, is a Model Driven Development (MDD) environment based on the OMG's (Object Modeling Group)
UML 2.1 and
System Modeling Language (SysML). According to Telelogic, Rhapsody is optimized for use in real-time and embedded software development, and allows both function-oriented and object-oriented design techniques to co-exist in one environment.
The combination of IDS and Rhapsody results an easy-to-use MDD environment for GUI development, according to the companies. The toolset targets at high-performance automotive telematics systems and advanced instrument clusters, as well as defense and commercial vehicle dashboard displays, consumer products, high-end industrial control and medical monitoring systems, the companies said.
The integration of the two products appears to be immediately available.
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