Variscite has announced a collaboration with TARA Systems to integrate Embedded Wizard, an award-winning graphical user interface (GUI) solution, into Variscite SOMs. This collaboration brings TARA Systems’ award-winning GUI development framework, Embedded Wizard, to Variscite’s SoMs. The integration aims to simplify the development process, lower costs, and maximize hardware efficiency.
Embedded Wizard is renowned for its speed and intuitive interface, empowering developers to design sophisticated and high-performance graphical user interfaces (GUIs). When paired with Variscite’s SoMs, developers can create responsive, visually rich UIs that take full advantage of the hardware’s capabilities. Currently, Embedded Wizard is integrated with Variscite’s i.MX 8M Plus and iMX93 modules, with more to come.
In industries like IoT, healthcare, and industrial automation, seamless UIs with minimal lag and optimal memory usage are essential. Hardware-software compatibility can often pose a challenge, but with this integration, developers can focus on innovation. Embedded Wizard enhances system performance by reducing memory usage and enables UI deployment on bare metal systems, minimizing overhead. Its cross-platform flexibility allows developers to create GUIs for multiple platforms with minimal rework, speeding up product development and reducing costs.
“Whether it’s industrial controls, consumer gadgets, or advanced medical devices, using Embedded Wizard with Variscite SoMs enables new possibilities in tailoring the GUI to the user’s needs and creating high-quality HMIs more easily than ever,” says Manuel Melic, Embedded Wizard’s Product Manager and Managing Director at TARA Systems. “This is an important partnership for industries where both performance and aesthetics are vital.”
Embedded Wizard brings a range of powerful features, including:
- Full suite of GUI elements such as widgets, animations, effects and complex text shaping, in addition to advanced features like themes, multi-variant GUIs and localization
- User-friendly, powerful and modern WYSIWYG editor
- Rapid prototyping, testing and debugging to reduce development effort and time
- Flexibility to meet varying functional, workflow, hardware and project requirements
- Highly efficient source-code generation tailored to the specific target system to ensure applications perform smoothly even on limited hardware
- Comprehensive support services to assist from trainings up to complete GUI implementation/development
The Variscite DART-MX8M-PLUS is based on the NXP i.MX 8 Plus and ideal for compact smart embedded systems. It accelerates AI/ML with an integrated Neural Processing Unit, and offers advanced multimedia and connectivity features, such as an Image Signal Processor and camera interfaces. The VAR-SOM-MX93, based on NXP’s i.MX93 application processor, is a high-quality, future-proof SoM that meets the market’s demand for energy-efficient smart edge devices. The VAR-SOM-MX93 offers a rich set of features at an attractive price and delivers energy flex architecture.
Markus Steidl, Managing Director Sales and Marketing at Variscite GmbH noted, “This partnership enables us to offer our customers a comprehensive, high-quality solution for GUI development, perfectly aligning with our mission to provide the infrastructure and support needed to shorten development cycles and accelerate time-to-market. As modern HMI applications evolve to include advanced features like gesture control, the demand for efficient graphics with minimal memory and processing usage has intensified. We are confident that the highly efficient Embedded Wizard framework will offer significant value to Variscite’s customers.”
Engineers and developers who want to learn more on how Variscite and TARA Systems are helping to bring touch and high-performance GUI development to the embedded world can check out the free webinar: “How to Effortlessly Create HMIs with Variscite and Embedded Wizard”.