Guiliani:Features

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Overview

Guiliani is a C++ software framework enabling the creation of visually appealing, hardware and OS platform-independent GUIs for embedded systems.

Guiliani adopts the philosophy of write once, compile for & run on many different target hardware. Once a Guiliani application has been developed, it can run natively on supported target platforms. When using Guiliani, the usual development workflow is to design the application on a PC and target a set of embedded operating systems for production release.

Minimum HW requirements

Criteria Requirements
MCU 100Mhz
ROM ~700kb for Guiliani without resources
RAM ~50kb for Guiliani without resources
Compiler C++ Compiler with exception Support
Operating System “bare-metal”, many OSs supported

Architecture overview

Guiliani is split into two layers, the Guiliani runtime engine, and a platform abstraction layer. Architecture 20.jpg

Features

System, platform and peripherals

  • Object-oriented GUI framework for embedded systems using C++
  • Optimized for embedded devices
    • Low memory consumption
    • Minimized CPU usage
  • Operation system independent
  • CPU independent
    • Support for fixed point / floating point CPUs
    • So far supported embedded platforms include: Renesas RZ/A, RZ/G, SH2, RX600, ST STM32F429, ALTERA NIOS II, Intel x86,…
  • Independent of graphics/font engine
  • Supports all types of input media
  • Support for subpixel-accurate rendering
  • Support for hardware-specific capabilities (e.g. hardware graphic layers)
  • UNICODE support
  • Prepared for thread-safe integration into existing applications

GUI features

  • Large set of pre-defined widgets
  • Easy to customize existing widgets or to integrate new widgets
  • Support for animations
  • Multi-language support (dynamically switchable at runtime)
  • Image-sets (skinning)
  • Automated layout of GUI elements
  • Rich text support
  • Smart redraw mechanism and resource-management
  • GUI can be developed independently from applications

Application development & support

  • Comprehensive and up-to-date documentation
  • Customizable trainings regarding content, location and time
  • Tutorials available
  • Integrated debugging mechanism
  • GUI design and behavior is stored in XML or binary description-files
  • Easy communication with external applications