June 25, 2012 -- Altia, Inc. has been made a Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Select Partner for HMI development tools for Freescale's new Vybrid automotive devices.

Freescale's Vybrid portfolio addresses a wide range of automotive market needs. Its silicon-enabled software is designed to bring connected radios, entry-level infotainment systems and reconfigurable instrument clusters to mainstream automobiles. Altia's Vybrid tools solution adds a means of quickly exploiting Vybrid's two ACE LCD controllers and OpenVG pipeline to this silicon-enabled software suite, getting the most out of a raster-image-based GUI with powerful and easily-integrated rendered vector images. This solution enables developers to create an impressive graphical interface with a compact embedded resource footprint.

"By leveraging the combination of our Vybrid products with Altia's Design and DeepScreen tools for user interface development, companies can achieve a great end-user experience," said Ray Cornyn, Vice President of Freescale's Automotive MCU business. "Altia has supported Freescale products for many years; our customers have produced hundreds of thousands of vehicles globally with combined Freescale and Altia solutions," adds Jason Williamson, Altia's Director of Marketing.

Altia's DeepScreen code generator supports a variety of Freescale hardware targets in addition to Vybrid, including MPC5645S (Rainbow), MPC5606S (Spectrum) and i.MX application processors.

Posted by: John Miklosz