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- Easy to use
GUI that enables rapid prototyping
- Support for industry-standard OpenGL
and its common embedded subsets
- Built-in windowing and control system
supports touch-controlled displays, interactive graphics,
buttons, tab controls, pop-up menus, cursor logic,
2D icons, and dynamic data plots that enable dynamic GUIs
and command/control screens
- Image file import and display enables
use of digital photographs and industry standard image
editor tools for content creation
- High performance 3D scene manager supports
industry standard file formats including OpenFlight™,
TerraPage™, and 3D Studio Max™ through optional
IData3D module
- TrueType and vector font support includes
proportional and mono-spaced fonts and haloed text
- Electronic Flight Instrument
System (EFIS) symbology support includes complex behaviors,
map and radar image download, live video overlay, complex
stencil clipping regions, and high quality anti-aliasing
IData’s highly integrated graphical framework
and database technology provides an easy-to-use turnkey
solution for advanced graphical HMIs. Programmers and non-programmers
alike can use IData’s rapid prototyping environment
to quickly create interactive and dynamic graphics displays
that take advantage of the latest computer graphics technology.
Offering powerful drag and drop component support, IData
empowers users with the ability to rapidly add objects from
a library or build their own application-specific component
libraries.
IData replaces the practice of hand-coding interactive,
dynamic displays with an intuitive drag-and-drop approach.
The resulting display is not represented as source code,
but as an optimized output called Dynamic Bytecode™,
which encodes the dynamics and graphical representations
into a fast-rendering format that is supported by IData’s
rendering microkernel. With this novel approach, changes
to an HMI simply require changes to the HMI data, not the
rendering code itself, enabling the deployment of new capabilities
in record time. Another advantage is that the HMI data may
be rendered on any supported platform with IData’s
optimized runtime microkernel, allowing for unmatched flexibility
in porting the HMI to new environments.
IData’s optional IData3D module builds on
many years of 3D scene management experience and expertise
to seamlessly integrate Quantum3D’s OpenGVS scene manager
into IData. The result is a powerful, integrated toolset
for the creation of truly innovative 2D/3D applications
with unprecedented portability. In addition to OpenGVS’s
rich, mature scene management capability, IData3D supports
multiple 3D channels per HMI, full 3D window management
within IData’s built-in window system, user interaction
with 3D objects, geographic projections, and dynamic IData
objects within the 3D scene. IData3D features industry standard
geometry file support including Multigen OpenFlight, Terrex
TerraPage, and 3D Studio Max so that IData users can now
leverage industry standard 3D database tools in the creation
of their graphical HMIs. IData3D is a natural extension
to IData’s database-centered philosophy, replacing
unwieldy code-generation techniques with powerful, flexible
database-driven architectures designed for maximum flexibility
and portability.
The tools and APIs provided with IData dramatically
reduce the development time and integration efforts required
to field graphical HMIs. IData’s cross-platform runtime
microkernel allows applications created with IData to be
deployed on an OpenGL-based computing platform – from
high-end workstations to low-end embedded systems –
under realtime operating systems such as WindRivers’™
VxWorks™. IData’s patent-pending Dynamic Bytecode™
technology and flexible Named Memory™ data backbone
take the complexity out of graphical display development,
which simplifies change control, configuration management
and certification. This increases reliability and dramatically
reduces lifecycle costs. IData databases can be used throughout
the product development lifecycle, from earliest concept
development through deployment of training systems.
A composite of IData’s bytecode databases can be
used to form layered visual applications. This can include
training and simulation interfaces using the same databases
as the deployed embedded displays. IData applications also
scale seamlessly from an IData window within a user application
or ActiveX™ control through distributed multiple display
screens on networked computers. IData’s cross-platform
runtime allows applications to be deployed under Windows,
Linux, or VxWorks RTOS to platforms ranging from 3D enabled
PDAs through powerful desktop workstations. Since all GUI
functionality is achieved without the use of any underlying
Windows systems support, the tool suite allows complete
portability of IData HMIs to small footprint embedded environments.
IData provides the visual computing industry’s
most advanced OpenGL support. Key features include transparency,
texture-mapping, transparent stencil masking, scissor clipping,
smooth shading, anti-aliasing, high-quality TrueType based
texture fonts, alpha blending, video texture, and integrated
3D. IData’s cross-platform OpenGL rendering technology
is highly optimized for fast performance.
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IData is ideally suited for such requirements as
digital and analog instrumentation, glass cockpit
symbology, HUDs, interactive virtual consoles, moving
map displays, and embedded training. IData’s
powerful development environment increases quality
and dramatically shortens development time required
to develop embedded cockpit displays, flight simulators,
and aircraft trainers. IData’s support for
advanced OpenGL graphics, moving maps, integrated
3D, video overlay, cursor control, and synthetic
vision assures customers that IData is ready to
meet the aerospace industry’s current and future
challenges. IData brings the power of immersive
simulations to the desktop test environment for
the Aerospace and Defense Industries.
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Whether on a shop floor or in a factory or distribution
center, automation and monitoring of processes is
important to a successful and efficient working
environment. IData provides the tools to easily
model the monitoring devices of your system and
test new designs and processes before they are implemented.
Employing touch controlled displays, interactive
graphics, flexible data inputs, single screen or
networked display systems, and portability to low-cost
platforms, IData has the ideal features to rapidly
make your system’s interface come alive.
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IData is well suited for rapid prototyping of display
concepts, providing an easy to use method for development,
testing, and assessment of new systems very early
in the development cycle. This early prototyping
allows cost-effective testing and comparison of
many design variants, allowing new options to be
explored with minimal impact on overall design schedules
and budgets. IData’s support for small footprint,
embedded OpenGL variants make it an ideal choice
for deploying the HMI to vehicle systems.
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IData allows users to create realistic realtime
displays for medical equipment in rapid time. IData’s
support for video imagery display, digital texture
zoom, soft control panels, touch screen support,
and intuitive device integration sets the standard
for a new level of medical HMI development. Controls
and displays for complex medical equipment are easily
designed and tested with IData.
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The IData tool
suite is comprised of IData Designer and IData Pro,
both of which include the IData SDK. Many optional
modules are also available, including IDataRT, IDataACG,
IData3D, and IData Mantis™ Plug-In. Together
these tools provide a sophisticated WYSIWYG HMI
editing tool suite with built-in simulation features
that enable developers to fully validate an HMI’s
behavior and performance before it is deployed.
This results in significant savings for coding,
testing, integration, as well as unsurpassed maintainability.
IData Designer offers full HMI design capability
at a low cost and allows a developer to add custom
logic to HMIs. IData Designer includes an SDK, allowing
user-developed plug-ins to be easily added to an
IData design and provides a powerful data communications
library that allows user applications to scale from
standalone computers through distributed networked
systems without code changes. The libraries in the
IData SDK are available on Windows and Linux, and
additional platforms are supported through the optional
IDataRT module. All code in the IData SDK is implemented
in ANSI C for ease of certification and maximum
portability. Additionally, IData Designer includes
the industry’s best font generation and rendering
capability, allowing proportional and mono-spaced
TrueType-based texture and geometric fonts to be
used in IData HMIs.
IData Pro includes IData Designer, as well as additional
functionality that allows the generation of Dynamic
Bytecode databases. These databases allow IData
designs to be ported to any of IData’s rendering
environments including ActiveX, Mantis, standalone
displays, and embedded environments. In addition,
Dynamic Bytecode databases can be combined together
in the IData Layout Editor tool to form complete
composite HMIs. IData Pro is also available with
a floating license, allowing IData Pro’s bytecode
generation capabilities to be shared among multiple
machines and IData Designer users.
includes
source and binaries for IData’s runtime microkernel,
enabling portability to any OpenGL environment.
Supported platforms include Wind River’s VxWorks.
All that IDataRT requires is an OpenGL driver, such
as the VxWorks OpenGL drivers provided with Quantum3D’s
Sentiris NVIDIA®-based PCI Mezzanine cards.
is a
highly optimized C code generation solution that
provides unprecedented flexibility, speed, and optimization
for customers who desire a code-based display rendering
solution. IDataACG provides the industry’s
first customizable solution for generating embedded
OpenGL, enabling the end customer to modify the
code-generation process for custom requirements,
as well as port to any embedded system or operating
environment. IDataACG generates C code for all IData
supported features, including fonts, textures, and
controls.
uses Quantum3D’s
OpenGVS® technology as the basis for the scene-graph
component that supports presentation of interactive
3D visualizations, including terrain, within an
IData application. IData3D provides an easily integrated
method for creating small footprint mission planning,
command/control, synthetic vision, and embedded
training applications that are portable to all of
IData’s supported platforms. IData3D is the
industry’s first scene-graph designed expressly
for highly constrained, embedded, certified environments,
and it supports industry standard 3D database formats
including OpenFlight™, 3D Studio, and TerraPage™.
enables the display of IData HMIs generated with
IData Pro within Quantum3D’s Mantis software
image generator. It supports the integration of
HUDs, reticles, simulated control panels, and separate
heads down displays within the Mantis Client/Server
architecture. The IData Mantis plug-in supports
reticle generation on Quantum3D’s Quest and
nvSensor hardware, and is fully compatible with
vixSen, Mantis, and the CIGI IG interface standard.
* Contact a sales representative
for release schedule
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Transportation
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Equipment Industry