Quantum3D Announces IData 3.0 Cross-Platform Visual Computing Framework for FAA DO-178B HMIs

PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 02, 2007 – SAN JOSE, CA, Embedded Systems Conference SV–April 2, 2007–Quantum3D, Inc., a leading provider of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) open-architecture, realtime visual computing solutions for the Visual and Sensor Simulation and Training (VSST) and Embedded Visual Computing (EVC) markets, today announced the release of IData® 3.0, the latest version of Quantum3D’s innovative Human-Machine Interface (HMI) development toolset and visual computing framework. IData is a suite of powerful, cost-effective, PC-based HMI tools that enables developers to rapidly prototype, develop and deploy dynamic and interactive cross-platform 2D and 3D HMIs for high-performance graphics and video-intensive applications such as avionics, vehicle electronics, unmanned vehicle control, C4ISR systems, industrial automation, medical systems and embedded training. The IData product family will be featured in the SYSGO/Quantum3D booth (no. 732) at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA, April 3-5, 2007.

IData 3.0 uniquely enables model-based HMI engineering across an entire product lifecycle—from system engineering through rapid prototyping, development, testing, training and deployment across multiple embedded target platforms. IData 3.0 extends IData’s Dynamic Bytecode™ technology with powerful integrated logic-modeling capabilities, enabling graphics developers to rapidly and easily create optimized HMI models that encapsulate all required graphical and logical information for the display with minimum supporting code. The resulting Dynamic Bytecode HMI databases work with the enhanced IData 3.0 Renderer and port directly to a wide variety of platforms and operating systems for both desktop and embedded computing environments without subsequent code generation. IData 3.0 also includes TrueStroke™ lines, a new feature for generating platform-independent anti-aliased lines. In addition, IData 3.0 supports powerful new development and deployment modules, including IDataMap™ for displaying scalable geospatial data in deeply embedded environments and the IDataMotif™ widget library, which provides extensible, built-in GUI widgets for rapid creation of user-interactive content that is portable to any operating environment.

"IData 3.0 builds upon IData’s unique, patent-pending model-based development technology for HMIs," said Ross Q. Smith, Quantum3D president and co-founder. "With its new Logic Engine and modules like IDataMAP and IDataMotif, IData 3.0 allows development teams to rapidly create and test advanced new concepts and implement the best designs and the functionality beneath them. These new capabilities allow engineers at all levels of HMI development to collaborate in making effective HMIs in record time that incorporate advanced features demanded by today’s complex visual computing systems."

Availability and Pricing
IData’s cross-platform runtime allows applications to be deployed under Windows, Linux, VxWorks and PikeOS operating systems as well as other realtime operating systems on platforms that range from 3D-enabled PDAs and cell phones to embedded avionics and vetronics computers to powerful desktop workstations. Since all of IData’s GUI functionality is achieved without the use of any underlying OS-specific systems support, the tool suite allows complete portability of IData HMIs to small-footprint embedded environments. IData 3.0 Pro Development Toolkit, which includes unlimited, royalty-free runtimes for Linux- and Windows-based OpenGL® platforms, is available immediately, with international pricing starting at $30,000 USD.

About Quantum3D
Quantum3D develops and markets COTS realtime, open-architecture Image Generation (IG) solutions, Embedded Visual Computing (EVC) systems and subsystems, development software and support services for the synthetic environment visual and sensor simulation and training and tactical and industrial visual computing markets. Quantum3D is a privately held company headquartered in San Jose, California, with development centers located in Phoenix, AZ, Huntsville, AL, and Orlando, FL and with sales and logistics in Europe via Quantum3D, Ltd., located in Reading, UK. For more information about Quantum3D real-time visual computing solutions, please visit www.quantum3d.com.

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