Leveraging an Advanced HMI in a Hardened Environment

Description: Creating beautiful, eye-catching content can be created with a tool like Adobe Creative Suite 4 to run in an embedded environment using the Adobe Flash Lite 3 player. Engineers, developers and user interface designers for markets like automotive and industrial automation want to leverage CS4 to create attractive and engaging HMIs, like digital instrument clusters or automation control panels.

But how do you combine the rich features available with real-time behavior to ensure a robust fail-safe system? What sorts of tips can be used to ensure your design is bullet-proof?

Join Andy Gryc and Dave Inglis as they explore how to achieve a hardening of your Adobe HMI, both by best practices for your Flash and ActionScript code, and by judicious application of QNX provided technologies like OpenGL-ES, adaptive partitioning, and high availability toolkit.

Estimated length: 1 hour, including Q & A.

Who should attend: This seminar is best suited for engineers, embedded software developers and user interface designers in automotive industrial automation markets.

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this session.

Speaker biography:
Andy Grychas been a software developer and designer for over 20 years. He's worked at companies large and small with a diverse range of responsibilities in embedded software development and consulting. His accomplishments include: Designer of the HP100LX/HP200LX palmtop database and GUI, and the HP Omnibook Notebook BIOS; and the lead embedded software architect at OnStar. Andy has held the position of World-wide Automotive Field Application Engineer and currently works as Product Marketing Manager, both at QNX Software Systems.

David Inglis has been a software developer at QNX for over 15 years, he has worked on many projects within R&D including the development of device drivers, Photon, Voyager web browser, Momentics IDE (was a committer on the Eclipse CDT project), and is now lead for the QNX HMI Flash framework project.

About QNX
QNX Software Systems, a Harman International company (NYSE: HAR), is the industry leader in realtime, embedded OS technology. The component-based architectures of the QNX Neutrino RTOS and QNX® Momentics® development suite together provide the industry's most reliable and scalable framework for building innovative, high-performance embedded systems. Global leaders such as Cisco, DaimlerChrysler, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, and Siemens depend on QNX technology for network routers, medical instruments, vehicle telematics units, security and defense systems, industrial robotics, and other mission- or life-critical applications. Founded in 1980, QNX Software Systems is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, and distributes products in over 100 countries worldwide.