In addressing customer desires, automobile manufacturers are looking for effective and efficient ways to incorporate new technologies into automobile instrumentation.  Traditional design and development methods for Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) offer only a disjointed HMI development process with minimal collaboration between specification, prototyping, and deployment phases as well as minimal code re-use throughout design and production.  In addition, these tools often do not address the different levels of skill sets involved or the shorter timelines for projects. 

VAPS XT addresses such key requirements for automotive HMI development, including

  • the broader skill sets now required for HMI design and specification
  • the greater demand for highly interactive and visual components
  • integration with major chip manufacturers, including Fujitsu, Xilinx, and ARM
  • small target
  • performance.


VAPS XT is the right tool suite for the rapid development of infotainment, multi-functional dashboard, and message centre displays for high-end automobiles.  Allowing teams of engineers and users to streamline the development process and to improve collaboration, VAPS XT makes it easy create photo-realistic menu-driven international multi-functional displays. By being able to specify logic and create graphics in a single tool, VAPS XT also maximizes re-use, minimizes re-work, and allows for the implementation of changes late in the development process.