Tool support for realisation of vetronics user interfaces

Abstract

The user interface (UI) realisation process, for embedded systems in general and for Vetronics(1) systems in particular, has suffered from a lack of flexibility and can hardly be called a software engineering process. Most user interfaces are realised as firmware, and required changes are likely to demand a relatively large time investment. Therefore BarcoView decided to accompany their newly developed Vetronics display, the Vector, with a tool for use in the creation of user interfaces. This paper describes the development and the functionality of this tool.