Partners launch interface development suite

The new joint venture will see Anders focusing on hardware development for current and future UMR intelligent display platforms while Tilcon continues to enhance the GUI development offering.

Effective immediately, the partnership launches the first co-developed product, the 'UMR IDS' (interface development suite).

This enables outstanding GUIs to be created using the UMR desktop Interface Builder and then seamlessly delivered to the UMR display platform, ready for deployment in the field.

This combined intelligent display and GUI development offering, optimised for Windows Embedded CE, mirror Microsoft's embedded market strategy by enabling high-fidelity, graphical user experiences for embedded devices.

The result is a range of display interface platforms that can be used to create enhanced user experiences in a range of industrial, medical, automotive and home appliance applications.

The Anders UMR-X10 family of intelligent colour display platforms feature a multi-configurable, PXA270 computer, pre-integrated with either a 3.5in VGA LTPS TFT or 7in WVGA TFT with resistive touch screen and Windows Embedded CE and are designed to 'plug' into developers' application hardware as an embedded display interface.

Tilcon's GUI development tools enable organisations to streamline their development process, produce superior interfaces and deploy those interfaces faster for sustainable competitive advantage.

As part of the new venture, the Anders-Tilcon UMR IDS will be available as a free 60-day evaluation with UMR development kits.

The IDS is optimised for Windows Embedded CE, a fact immediately acknowledged and supported by Microsoft.