Microchip Technology Ensemble Graphics Toolkit

Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and interactive touchscreen displays provide intuitive user experiences in applications from robotic and machine controls to medical user interfaces, automotive instrumentation and home and building automation systems. A well-designed GUI enables users to process information more quickly and interact more effectively with a product. Microchip Technology has announced a GUI development toolkit for its portfolio of 32-bit Linux-based microprocessors (MPUs), which should help designers of industrial, medical, consumer and automotive graphical displays to reduce development cost and time to market.

The Ensemble Graphics Toolkit is a free and open-source C++ GUI suite for the company’s SAMA5 and SAM9 series of Arm Cortex-A5 and ARM926EJ-S processor-based MPUs including the system-in-package and system-on-module products. The toolkit is optimised for Microchip’s 32-bit MPUs running the Linux operating system. By taking advantage of underlying hardware acceleration, including graphics controllers and video decoders when available, the toolkit provides a high-performance user experience on low- and mid-range graphical displays up to XGA (1024 × 768 pixels) resolution.

The Ensemble Graphics Toolkit is a complete software and tools framework suite.