More electronic devices are being designed with Graphical User Interfaces, or GUIs, to improve the user experience by offering simple and appealing interactions with modern applications. Microchip Technology launches Microchip Graphics Suite (MGS), an easy-to-learn, all-inclusive solution that makes it easier to integrate GUIs, animations, and images into touchscreen displays, to assist embedded developers with their innovative ideas.
Reducing Design Complexity While Enhancing Projects Reusability
It can take a lot of time and effort to develop a graphical user interface (GUI), as it involves debugging and integrating code from multiple tools.
Microchip’s 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessors (MPUs) are easily integrated with MGS, which also supports a variety of development platforms, such as Linux® environments and MPLAB® Harmony v3.
The goal of this comprehensive solution GUI interface is to assist designers in reducing design complexity and enhance reusability across projects.
MGS provides compositional tools, such as a hardware-free prototyping simulator. The simulator generates the C code in either online or native mode by utilizing the MPLAB® Code Configurator (MCC).
When in web mode, the program generates an HTML file with simulated touch interacactivity that works with the majority of web browsers.
The simulator makes it possible to debug the Windows® desktop GUI when it is in native mode. These characteristics allow functional and display demonstrations to be correct regardless of the availability of hardware.
With its Modern Style And simple WYSIWYG Interface, MGS Allows Users:
- To see and manipulate the final product instantly, cutting down on errors and boosting productivity.
- Because MGS is versatile and can handle a large variety of devices with different performance levels, it helps make GUIs more accessible.
- These can vary from high-performance devices that enable tablet-sized touchscreens with high-fidelity video playback to resource-constrained systems with far lower memory and system performance needs.
A Vast Array of Displays for Enhanced Graphics Performance
Microchip has confirmed that this is the best option for developers who want better graphical performance without having to increase their hardware too much.
A vast array of displays, including touchscreens with 2D and 3D gestures and MIPI® DSI®, LVDS, RGB, SPI, and HDMI® interfaces, are also supported by MGS. These displays range from monochrome OLEDs to 1080p 16.7M color TFTs.
Microchip Touchscreen Controllers Highly Compatible with MGS
This all-inclusive solution makes it easier for embedded developers to integrate a graphical user interface (GUI) from the design stage to implementation in a variety of applications. The company’s extensive line of PIC32 MCUs, SAM MPUs, and maXTouch® touchscreen controllers are highly compatible with MGS. Microchip can also offer solutions for memory, power management, and networking, among other essential components.
Development Tools
Microchip Graphics Suite is supported by various development tools including MPLAB Harmony v3, MPLAB Code Configurator and Microchip’s mainlined Linux Distribution for 32-bit MCUs and MPUs.
Availability
Microchip Graphics Suite(MGS) is complimentary and available now to download. To Download The Software: CLICK HERE
Key Comments
“At Microchip, we are committed to providing our customers with comprehensive solutions and cutting-edge tools that empower them to make high-quality products and get to market faster,” said Rod Drake, corporate vice president of Microchip’s MCU32 and MPU32 business units. “This innovative tool suite simplifies the process of creating engaging and responsive displays for everything from smart home devices to industrial equipment.”
