Fort Gratiot, Michigan, July 6, 2010 — Blue Water Embedded, Inc., innovator of royalty-free graphical user interface (GUI) software, today unveiled Prism, a GUI suite of development tools optimized for embedded devices. As a complete GUI software development solution for resource-constrained devices, Prism delivers the eye-catching graphical capabilities and time-to-market edge needed for medical, industrial control, office automation and consumer markets where user interfaces play an essential role in device design.
Incorporating all the leading-edge GUI development tools and libraries needed to make user interface visions a reality, Prism is comprised of the Prism Runtime Framework™, a full-featured GUI toolkit, Prism Micro™, a GUI toolkit for monochrome to 8-bit color-depth targets, and Prism Insight, a desktop GUI design and resource editing tool. The complete framework and toolset automates the design and deployment of advanced graphical interfaces for embedded systems, incorporating a high-performance graphical drawing library and a GUI widget set.
“Thanks to the ever-increasing influence of the consumer market, graphical user interfaces have become expected on devices in many markets,” observed Ken Maxwell, President of Blue Water Embedded. “Designing and developing customer-oriented GUIs that take into account not only the critical workflow of the user functionality, but also transparently adjust to the variety of graphic capabilities on output devices becomes more like a mad science without tools designed to meet these challenges. Prism’s libraries, development tools and professional technical support combine to speed product development.”
Prism Runtime Framework’s complete widget set, drawing engine, event manager and screen manager deliver the functionality needed for interactive devices. With these tools, developers can design sophisticated embedded user interfaces with rich animations, screens transitions, alpha blending, anti-aliasing, and canvas transformations. Prism Micro, a variation of Prism Runtime Framework, is tailored to meet the special requirements of cost-constrained, lower color depth targets. Requiring exceptionally low overhead, Prism Micro is very small and easily ported to virtually any hardware configuration capable of supporting graphical output.
The development platform Prism Insight enables you to completely design your user interface in a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG environment. Incorporating TrueType font technology, the Insight Resource Editor defines buttons, menus, and other widgets so developers can customize screen layout as required. With the Animation Designer, developers can specify screen flows and select from a wide range of built-in or customize screen transition effects and animations. Prism Insight offers a large range of data output formats such as ANSI C/C++ source code, XML screen description files, and binary resource files, enabling developers to tailor output to the requirements and capabilities of target systems.
Blue Water Embedded offers complete customer support including training sessions guaranteed to reduce the learning curve and slash time out of the device development process.
Shipping and Availability
Available now, Prism is delivered with full source code and royalty free. Pricing starts at $2,000 for a Prism development-only license. Available soon will be a document package for devices requiring safety certification.
Blue Water Embedded
Blue Water Embedded, Inc. provides the leading graphics development software for high-performance user interfaces in embedded devices. Founded by Ken Maxwell, architect of both the PEG and Prism GUI technologies, Blue Water Embedded brings a team of engineers together who boast decades of experience delivering quality graphical software solutions. Blue Water Embedded is committed to quality and customer service, making it the software partner of choice for companies creating devices for medical, consumer, security, telematics, and industrial applications. Visit www.bwembedded.com for more information.
