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Presagis Demonstrates VAPS XT Vulkan Drivers GPU Support Capabilities at Avionics Expo 2019

Presagis Demonstrates VAPS XT Vulkan Drivers GPU Support Capabilities at Avionics Expo 2019

March 12th 2019
The demonstration uses VAPS XT features leveraging CoreAVI’s VkCore™ SC graphics technology

Avionics Expo 2019, Munich, Germany – March 12, 2019 – Presagis, a technology innovator and a leading provider of user interface development software, unveiled today at Avionics Expo 2019 in Munich, an application built using the VAPX XT tool running CoreAVI’s VKCore SC graphics drivers, a safety critical version of the Vulkan® API introduced by the Khronos group in 2016. According to their website, “Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms.”

This demonstration provides a clear path for developing Vulkan based graphics when using VAPS XT to design graphical user interfaces. Presagis’ VAPS XT enables application developers to efficiently use Vulkan technology to design high performance graphics by removing any coding intricacies it may bring and allowing them to focus on the design. VAPS XT’s code generation module performs the bulk of the work and allows application developers to leverage the advanced capabilities of the Vulkan API to design high performance user graphical interfaces.

The application built using VAPS XT is supported by CoreAVI’s VkCore SC which is the avionics industry’s first safety critical Vulkan-based graphics and compute driver and is RTCA DO-178C/EUROCAE ED-12C certifiable up to Design Assurance Level (DAL) A. The application is also running VkCoreGL™ SC application libraries which enable customers running OpenGL® applications to harness the enhanced capabilities offered by Vulkan graphics and compute functions, while still using OpenGL, allowing integrators a facilitated transition period to using the full Vulkan API.

“CoreAVI has a long-standing partnership with Presagis to deliver safety critical graphics and HMI tools to the Mil/Aero industry,” said Dan Joncas, Executive VP of Sales and Marketing at CoreAVI. “We are excited that Presagis has chosen to integrate our new VkCore SC graphics and compute driver with their HMI modeling and simulation tool. We look forward to enabling our joint customers with platforms for safety critical applications that allow them to harness the full potential of modern compute and graphics capabilities.”

Presagis has provided HMI graphical modeling and development tools to produce state-of-the-art graphics and highly optimized code for both PC and embedded systems for over 30 years. Its flagship product VAPS XT is an open and extensible COTS graphical HMI modeling and development tool for developing real-time applications supporting general HMI and ARINC 661 HMI certifiable and non-certifiable safety-critical environments. It is an easy-to-use yet powerful full-featured software tool for the rapid development of interactive graphical HMI displays for avionics and other applications. It allows a user to capture the design of an HMI, automatically generate source code to implement that design, and ultimately achieve certification up to DAL A for DO-178C.

Visit Presagis’ Booth A71 during Avionics Expo 2019 on March 12-13 to see this demonstration or visit www.presagis.com/GraphicalUserInterfaceDevelopment/ to find out more about what we offer. You can also contact us for more information at [email protected].

About Presagis
Presagis is a global leader providing commercial modeling, simulation and user interface development solutions to the aerospace, defense and security, and critical infrastructure markets. Presagis combines an open simulation development framework with expert professional services to help customers streamline development workflows, reduce project risks, and deliver game-quality immersive simulations. Presagis is also at the forefront of avionics software design for certifiable cockpit displays. The company serves hundreds of customers worldwide, including many of the world's most respected organizations such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Airbus, BAE Systems, and CAE.

About Core Avionics & Industrial Inc.
Core Avionics & Industrial Inc. (“CoreAVI”) is a pioneer in the military and aerospace sector with a proven track record in providing entire software and hardware IP platform solutions that enable safety critical applications. A global leader in architecting and supplying real-time and safety critical graphics, compute, and video drivers, “program ready” embedded graphics processors, and DO-254/ED-80 certifiable COTS hardware IP, CoreAVI’s suite of products enables the design and implementation of complete safety critical embedded solutions that achieve the highest levels of safety certification with long-term support. CoreAVI’s solutions are deployed in commercial and military avionics systems, and support rapidly emerging compute applications in the automotive, unmanned vehicle, and internet of things markets. CoreAVI’s products may be purchased with certification data kits for the most stringent levels of safety certification, including RTCA DO-254/DO-178C and EUROCAE ED-80/ED-12C. coreavi.com

For more information contact:
Carlos Carpio
Presagis
Marketing Manager, Embedded Graphics
[email protected]
514.341.3874 ext. 4374