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Quantum3D® IData®
3.0 Enables Cost-Effective, Rapid Time-to-Market Development
of D0-178B Certified 2D, 3D and Video-Intensive HMI Displays
via its Patent Pending Dynamic Bytecode™ Technology
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Quantum3D®
IData® 3.0 HMI Development Environment
Features an Integrated Logic Engine,
IDataMotif™ Widget Library and TrueStrokeTM Lines
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Actual
(Zoomed) Screenshot of Same Avionics Display Using Quantum3D®
IData® 3.0 TrueStroke™ Lines on Same OpenGL®
Compliant Embedded GPU
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SSAN JOSE, CA, Embedded
Systems Conference SV–April 2, 2007–Quantum3D®,
Inc., a leading provider of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) open-architecture,
realtime visual computing solutions for the Visual and Sensor
Simulation and Training (VSST) and Embedded Visual Computing (EVC)
markets, today announced the release of IData® 3.0, the latest
version of Quantum3D’s innovative Human-Machine Interface
(HMI) development toolset and visual computing framework. IData
is a suite of powerful, cost-effective, PC-based HMI tools that
enables developers to rapidly prototype, develop and deploy dynamic
and interactive cross-platform 2D and 3D HMIs for high-performance
graphics and video-intensive applications such as avionics, vehicle
electronics, unmanned vehicle control, C4ISR systems, industrial
automation, medical systems and embedded training. The IData product
family will be featured in the SYSGO/Quantum3D booth (no. 732)
at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA, April 3-5,
2007.
IData 3.0 uniquely enables model-based HMI engineering
across an entire product lifecycle—from system engineering
through rapid prototyping, development, testing, training and
deployment across multiple embedded target platforms. IData 3.0
extends IData’s Dynamic Bytecode™ technology with
powerful integrated logic-modeling capabilities, enabling graphics
developers to rapidly and easily create optimized HMI models that
encapsulate all required graphical and logical information for
the display with minimum supporting code. The resulting Dynamic
Bytecode HMI databases work with the enhanced IData 3.0 Renderer
and port directly to a wide variety of platforms and operating
systems for both desktop and embedded computing environments without
subsequent code generation. IData 3.0 also includes TrueStroke™
lines, a new feature for generating platform-independent anti-aliased
lines. In addition, IData 3.0 supports powerful new development
and deployment modules, including IDataMap™ for displaying
scalable geospatial data in deeply embedded environments and the
IDataMotif™ widget library, which provides extensible, built-in
GUI widgets for rapid creation of user-interactive content that
is portable to any operating environment.
"IData 3.0 builds upon IData’s unique,
patent-pending model-based development technology for HMIs,"
said Ross Q. Smith, Quantum3D president and co-founder. "With
its new Logic Engine and modules like IDataMAP and IDataMotif,
IData 3.0 allows development teams to rapidly create and test
advanced new concepts and implement the best designs and the functionality
beneath them. These new capabilities allow engineers at all levels
of HMI development to collaborate in making effective HMIs in
record time that incorporate advanced features demanded by today’s
complex visual computing systems."
New IData Logic Engine
IData 3.0 includes a powerful new Logic Engine that provides comprehensive
logic modeling capabilities. With IData 3.0, HMI developers can
graphically construct logic models that specify the dynamic behavior
of each element of the HMI in a user-friendly graphical modeling
environment. Developers can specify complex conditional expressions,
mathematical expressions, calls to user-specified external routines
or state logic, allowing the dynamic behavior of the HMI to be
captured in the model itself, rather than in third-party tools
or source code. The logical specification thus captured by the
modeling process is encoded along with the visual specification
within the IData Dynamic Bytecode database. At runtime, the IData
cross-platform Render Engine efficiently processes the logic model
in realtime on any IData platform and OS without code generation,
compilation or linking.
New IDataMotif™ Widget Library
HMI developers increasingly rely on powerful user-interface (UI)
features in their designs. IData 3.0 is compatible with Quantum3D’s
new IDataMotif Widget Library. The IDataMotif library features
a powerful and extensive set of widgets supporting key UI features
such as popup menus, tabular data displays, tabbed panels, combo
boxes, list boxes, radio groups, text entries and others. These
widgets are portable to any IData supported platform, enabling
small-footprint HMI applications with sophisticated UIs to be
deployed in virtually any embedded environment.
New IDataMap™
IData newest add-on module, IDataMap, is available as an option
for IData 3.0 customers. IDataMap enables HMI developers to incorporate
a fully featured global, geospatial digital map or map set for
navigation, C4ISR mission planning and other applications. With
support for both 2D and 3D maps, IDataMap allows developers to
choose the best view consistent with the application type and
processing power available and enables fusion of terrain, raster
and vector data from multiple sources. IDataMap includes a complete
MIL-STD-2525B compliant symbology set and leverages IData’s
powerful customer-specific symbology capabilities to allow development
of custom geospatial overlays to present stored or dynamically
changing data. Using IData 3.0’s new picking capabilities,
HMI developers can design custom map layers in any shape that
are cursor selectable, allowing powerful map applications to be
easily developed and deployed anywhere. IDataMap, when combined
with IData3D for high-performance realtime 3D-scene management,
provides the most complete solution for deeply embedded, certifiable
2D and 3D geospatial visual computing applications on the market
today.
New IData TrueStroke™ Lines
In mission-critical applications such as primary flight displays,
C4ISR applications and C2 applications, image quality is of vital
importance to minimize artifacts and potential mistakes. IData
3.0 includes a new TrueStroke Line capability that allows an IData
HMI to achieve superior and consistent anti-aliased line quality
on any platform, even those platforms with limited or no support
for anti-aliased lines. IData TrueStroke Lines are rendered using
user-defined line profiles, allowing the HMI developer to tune
line quality to match the intended display. TrueStroke lines support
virtually any desired line width and feature single pass haloing
and high-quality vertex joins for optimum performance and image
quality at any line width or display resolution.
IData178 Cert Kit for FAA DO-178B Level-A
Applications
Quantum3D IData178 is a complete FAA DO-178B Certification Package
for the production of Level-A safety-critical certified HMI applications
using the IData advanced HMI toolset. Developed to exacting DO-178B
standards by adherence to strict processes with the oversight
of FAA Designated Engineering Representatives (DERs), the IData178
Cert Kit includes source code for the IData Render Engine, which
is the foundation for IData, along with a complete set of reusable
“certification artifacts” for the IData Render Engine
that are essential for certification efforts. In addition, the
IData178 Cert Kit includes a qualifiable automated HMI Verification
Tool, and a comprehensive Test Harness that achieves complete
MC/DC structural coverage of the IData Render Engine code.
Availability and Pricing
IData’s cross-platform runtime allows applications to be
deployed under Windows, Linux, VxWorks and PikeOS operating systems
as well as other realtime operating systems on platforms that
range from 3D-enabled PDAs and cell phones to embedded avionics
and vetronics computers to powerful desktop workstations. Since
all of IData’s GUI functionality is achieved without the
use of any underlying OS-specific systems support, the tool suite
allows complete portability of IData HMIs to small-footprint embedded
environments. IData 3.0 Pro Development Toolkit, which includes
unlimited, royalty-free runtimes for Linux- and Windows-based
OpenGL® platforms, is available immediately, with international
pricing starting at $30,000 USD.
About Quantum3D
Quantum3D develops and markets COTS realtime, open-architecture
Image Generation (IG) solutions, Embedded Visual Computing (EVC)
systems and subsystems, development software and support services
for the synthetic environment visual and sensor simulation and
training and tactical and industrial visual computing markets.
Quantum3D is a privately held company headquartered in San Jose,
California, with development centers located in Phoenix, AZ, Huntsville,
AL, and Orlando, FL and with sales and logistics in Europe via
Quantum3D, Ltd., located in Reading, UK. For more information
about Quantum3D real-time visual computing solutions, please visit
www.quantum3d.com.
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Quantum3D, the Quantum3D logo, IData, IData
Logic, IData TrueStroke, IDataMap and IDataMotif are registered
trademarks and TrueStroke, IDataMotif, Dynamic Bytecode and IDataMAP
are trademarks of Quantum3D, Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners
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