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IData® Tool Suite

Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS), cross-platform software development toolkit for creating and deploying Human Machine Interface (HMI) applications in safety-critical environments

Overview

IData® Tool Suite is a tool-based Human Machine Interface (HMI) application development and deployment environment. It offers unmatched advanced features for creating powerful HMI applications that are portable to any target platform. Through IData’s innovative technology, application developers can create HMI applications for a number of applications.

IData Tool Suite – A Complete Toolkit

• The floating HSL Generator supports the IData Designer seats. Only one HSL generator is needed for each Designer cluster. HSL data from this generator is used by the IData Run Time engines.
• IData Designer is the more cost-effective HMI tool.
• IDataMap is an add-on module that offers compelling, high performance 2-D/3-D digital map displays and geospatial visualization capabilities based on industry standard data formats.
• IData3D is a high-performance, real-time 3-D scene management library module that renders 3-D data content from industry standard tools on desktop and embedded platforms.
• IData Run Time provides the means to deploy IData applications on the target system of your choice, including any RTOS, any OpenGL® subset or any computer platform.

Applications

Aerospace, Defense Industries and DO-178B

IData is ideally suited for digital and analog instrumentation, flat panel display symbology, head-up displays or HUDs, interactive virtual consoles, digital map displays, and embedded training. The powerful development environment increases fidelity and dramatically shortens development time for embedded cockpit displays, flight simulators, and aircraft trainers.

Command-and-Control

Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems, whether for situational awareness or unmanned vehicle control, require powerful digital maps, 3-D terrain, standard symbology sets, flexible symbology overlay, video handling and powerful user interaction. IData offers developers comprehensive built-in capabilities to create tomorrow’s C4ISR systems.

Industrial Automation

Whether on a shop floor, in a factory or distribution center, automation and monitoring of processes are 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 control displays, interactive graphics, flexible data inputs, single screen or networked display systems, and portability to low cost platforms, IData will rapidly make your system’s interface come alive.

Transportation Industry

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 cost-effective testing and comparison of many design variants allows new options to be explored with minimal impact on overall design schedules and budgets. IData support for small footprint, embedded OpenGL variants make it an ideal choice for in-vehicle systems deployment.

Medical Equipment Industry

IData allows users to rapidly create realistic real-time displays for medical equipment with support for displaying video imagery, digital texture zoom, soft control panels, and touch screen support. Together with its intuitive device integration, IData 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.
 

Features and Benefits

• Reduced Lifecycle Costs – IData offers integrated, powerful, Open Architecture model-based development, which meets certification requirements such as DO-178B for avionics.
• Extreme Performance – Whether using third party or ENSCO supplied OpenGL solutions, IData makes it easy to meet performance requirements on all classes of embedded hardware.
• Advanced Capabilities – Through the addition of ENSCO-supplied or third party modules, such as digital mapping, 3-D scene management, video handling and turnkey reusable widget libraries, application developers gain access to advanced capabilities.
• Reduced Obsolescence – Obsolescence and portability risks are reduced by eliminating the representation of HMIs, graphics data, and behavioral logic as source code. Instead, IData offers a content-driven application development environment that concentrates on efficient content rendering pipelines, both accelerated via GPU and software based.

 

IData® is a registered trademark of ENSCO, Inc. and may not be used for any purpose without the written permission of ENSCO, Inc.

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