STMicroelectronics Releases STM32 MCU GUI Design Software TouchGFX Version 4.20

STMicroelectronics (ST; NYSE:STM), a leading global semiconductor company serving multiple electronics applications, announced TouchGFX version 4.20, a graphical user interface design software for STM32 microcontrollers.

This latest software update supports ST's new Neochrom graphics gas pedal. The brand-new graphics gas pedal is incorporated right into STMicroelectronics' advanced microcontroller items, such as the STM32U5.

Neochrom, derived from ST's Chrom-ART Accelerator™ graphics acceleration technology that handles pixels and shapes, supports full-screen rotation to any angle and texture mapping for smooth, fluid graphics and enhanced ease-of-use.

Panasonic, a leading consumer electronics company, has been developing home appliances with TouchGFX and STM32 microcontrollers for many years. The quality and design of the TouchGFX tools, along with the excellent user experience we achieve with the support of ST, helps enhance our brand awareness and experience," said Wang Cong, director of the Device Solution Development Center at Panasonic Electric Software Development (Dalian) Co. TouchGFX enables our engineers to be more productive".

With the integration of the Neochrom gas pedal, the latest STM32 microcontrollers dramatically improve embedded graphics performance to the level of today's application processors for smartphones and tablets. On the other hand, the microcontrollers are more affordable, more energy efficient, better usable and can run on simple operating systems such as FreeRTOS and Microsoft® Azure ThreadX, or even bare metal.

Ricardo de-sa-Earp, executive vice president of the General Microcontroller Products Division, part of ST's Microcontroller and Digital Chip Products Group, added: "Now, TouchGFX 4.20 lets developers around the world unleash Neochrom's graphics performance in embedded systems with our new energy-efficient STM32 MCUs. acceleration performance in embedded systems with our new power-efficient STM32 MCUs."

TouchGFX 4.20 includes more important brand-new attributes for developers, including assistance for importing and also exporting personalized widgets. The development atmosphere consists of the TouchGFXDesigner graphics advancement tool and also the X-CUBE-TOUCHGFX embedded software program, which likewise provides all the firmware needed to run the user interface on the target microcontroller. TouchGFX is all integrated within the STM32Cube MCU development ecosystem, providing a complete end-to-end workflow to simplify product design and reduce time-to-market.

TouchGFX 4.20 is now available for free download.

How is the TouchGFX 4.20:

1. Structure: simple production of numerous display components and connected changes

2. Widgets: vast option of customizable widgets, such as a swipe container and cycle progress, for simple and easy GUI development

3. Skins:

>Set of ready-to-use visual skins enabling regular prototyping without any requirement for a graphical developer

>No limitation to the use of customized graphics

4. Communications: vibrant communications for the production of straightforward applications

5. Custom container:

>Production of customized recyclable application control

>Easy system development with merged look and feel

6. Text handling:

>Fonts and also typographies specified and also taken care of in one solitary area

>Complete translation service

>Complete assistance of several alphabets and scripts such as Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese

7. Code Generation:

>TouchGFXDesigner generates and also keeps performant C++ code

>Tool-generated code totally separated from customer code

>All sorts of code expansions feasible for one-of-a-kind animations as well as system interconnections

>Assistance of a number of integrated growth environments such as IAR Installed Workbench, Arm Keil, as well as GCC-based IDEs