The two companies will work together on the development of new solutions to help OEMs build advanced human machine interface (HMI)/graphic user interface (GUI) designs.
Tria’s HMI services include design and prototyping through full system assembly and product integration. This will be combined with Qt’s experience in software development, which supports productivity across the entire product development lifecycle, from UI design and software development to quality assurance and deployment.
“This partnership is a significant milestone in delivering cutting-edge compute-on-module (COM) solutions,” said Thomas Staudinger, President of Tria Technologies. “Our new agreement with Qt Group enables us to empower our customers to reduce their time to market whilst providing tools needed to create sophisticated HMI solutions – from design and manufacturing to delivery. Whether it is in industrial automation, medical, or any other embedded application, this collaboration helps our customers to get their projects off the ground quickly.”
With the Qt development framework, engineers will now be able to build user interfaces for different platforms – from embedded and mobile to desktop.
The partnership with Tria further provides a hardware pre-integrated solution for quick and easy integration into projects. Under the agreement, the Qt 6 commercial software stack now becomes part of the Tria’s SimpleSwitch technology platform, enabling customers to install the software on Tria’s SMARC modules.
The SimpleSwitch combination of SMARC connector, containers and hardware abstraction layers, and with software templates for Python, Flutter, Qt and more, will enable projects to start straight away and be tailored for performance and features.
Qt Partner Director, Paul Nieminen, added, “The bundled solution Tria is offering provides all the confidence an OEM customer needs that our partnership of components, software and expertise will significantly reduce complexities in the development and manufacturing process while maintaining the need for speed to market.”
Also, as part of the collaboration, is the availability of Tria’s SimpleCore incubator program, an open-source collection of extra features that are stored in additional repositories and can be added to any SimpleSwitch build using Qt 6.
The Qt 6 building block for SimpleSwitch is initially available for three months. Following that testing period, the development license can be purchased.
