VAPS XT and SeaWind Integration

Since the acquisition of Seaweed Systems in 2009, Presagis started a major initiative to ensure customers developing embedded graphics with both VAPS XT and SeaWind will achieve the best possible performance and reliability. Presagis product roadmaps include dedicated resources to ensure the VAPS XT and SeaWind products are integrated and optimized. The goal is to reduce the effort required by systems integrators and avionics suppliers and ensure consistently optimized performance across a wide variety of hardware platforms.

There are many advantages to sourcing both HMI tool and software driver from Presagis:

• Ease of integration. Integration of the graphics stack is tricky and subject to a myriad of possible problems. Pre-integration allows for testing against the most common problems associated with the integration.
• Efficiency. A well-thought out integrated stack uses resources, including CPU, GPU and memory more efficiently than two discrete components that are developed and integrated in isolation.
• Ease of certification. There’s a lower chance that issues encountered during certification will include a mismatch of requirements between the HMI application and the display driver.
• Centralized support. By offering both OpenGL drivers and HMI development under one roof, Presagis can rapidly identify and resolve support issues.
• Feature set path. As the HMI and driver are being developed jointly, the features each can bring to bear, as their products are being developed in a fully cooperative fashion, are more compelling than if the two products were being developed in relative isolation.

Optimizing performance is the Holy Grail when developing high-end graphics applications. We recently expanded our relationship with Presagis and our use of VAPS QCG to include the SeaWind driver for this very reason. Having one supplier developing, supporting and optimizing both drivers and HMI products will help us to further enhance performance of our applications.
Andreas Schacht, Head of Avionics Driver & Support Software at Defence Electronics, EADS Defence & Security