Build High-Performance Embedded UIs with Sparklet's Advanced Features

From an ultra-lightweight architecture to a powerful 3D engine, discover the features that give you complete design freedom and unmatched real-time rendering performance on any MCU or MPU.

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More Than a Library—A Complete UI Development Ecosystem

In embedded systems development, every feature comes with a cost—in memory, CPU cycles, and development time. Generic UI frameworks often force a compromise: you can have rich visuals or efficient performance, but not both. This is where Sparklet is fundamentally different.
Our feature philosophy is built on a foundation of purpose-driven efficiency. Every capability within the Sparklet Graphics Library, from the rendering engine to the widget set, is meticulously designed to solve the unique challenges of resource-constrained hardware. We empower you to create visually stunning, responsive user interfaces for any platform—bare-metal, RTOS, or Linux—without taxing your system resources. This approach is born from over a decade of cross-domain expertise. Whether it's a safety-critical automotive cluster, a rugged industrial HMI, or a battery-powered wearable, our feature set is proven to accelerate innovation and deliver reliable, scalable, and engaging embedded UI solutions that lead the market.

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A Complete Embedded UI Toolkit to Accelerate Your Workflow

From our intuitive GUI designer to codeless state-machine logic, these software features are engineered for speed, efficiency, and a seamless development experience.

Intuitive WYSIWYG GUI Designer

Our Flint UI Designer provides a seamless "What You See Is What You Get" environment. Design, build, and test your interfaces with simple drag-and-drop functionality, dramatically reducing the design-to-code gap and enabling rapid, iterative development.

No Code Development

Accelerate development and reduce human error with our UML-inspired Hierarchical State Machine (HSM). Visually define complex UI logic, screen transitions, and event handling without writing a single line of C code, making your application easier to manage and debug.

Extensive GUI Widget Library

Get a head start with a rich library of pre-built, production-ready widgets. From basic buttons and sliders to complex radial gauges and data charts, each widget is expertly designed and optimized for the low memory footprint required by embedded systems.

Ultra-Lightweight Architecture

Sparklet is built from the ground up for minimal resource consumption. Its modular architecture ensures that only the necessary components are included in your final build, keeping your CPU and memory usage exceptionally low while delivering a high-performance visual experience.

Rich, Optimized Animations

Create a modern and informative user experience with a wide range of built-in animations. Effects like alpha blending, transformations, and slide/pop transitions are handled efficiently by the engine, ensuring smooth performance even on low-power MCUs.

Advanced Interactive Elements

Deliver a smooth, mobile-like experience with built-in support for touch gestures like tap, drag, flick, and swipe. Interactive widgets like carousels and swipe-to-confirm buttons come with built-in visual feedback to enhance usability and responsiveness.

Robust Multi-Language Support

Design products for a global audience. Sparklet offers comprehensive support for Unicode, right-to-left (RTL) encoding, and dynamic language switching at runtime. Our compact font management ensures multilingual applications remain memory-efficient.

Flexible Custom Widget Rendering

When off-the-shelf isn't enough, Sparklet gives you the power to create your own. Our flexible framework allows you to design and implement fully custom widgets with unique behaviors, interactions, and visuals, ensuring your UI perfectly matches your brand's vision.

Deep Integration for Maximum Performance

Sparklet isn't just software; it's a bridge to your hardware. Our engine is designed to harness the full potential of your target MCU or MPU, ensuring you extract every ounce of performance.

Full-Throttle GPU Accelerated Rendering

Sparklet fully leverages your hardware's graphical capabilities, from basic 2D blitting engines to powerful GPUs. With native support for industry-standard APIs like OpenGL ES and Vulkan, we offload complex rendering tasks to the hardware, resulting in higher frame rates, smoother animations, and lower CPU utilization.

Hardware Layer & Sprite Engine Compositing

By utilizing underlying hardware layers and sprite engines, Sparklet can composite multiple graphical elements with zero CPU overhead. This is ideal for complex UIs with dynamic backgrounds, and multiple pop-ups, ensuring a fluid and tear-free visual experience.

Optimized Image & Asset Handling

To minimize memory usage and accelerate rendering, Sparklet supports advanced techniques like Color Look-Up Tables (CLUT/palettized images), Run-Length Encoding (RLE) for compressed assets, and Swizzling for optimized memory access patterns.

3D Engine and OpenGL Support

Sparklet features a powerful 3D Transformation Engine with OpenGL support, allowing the creation and rendering of three-dimensional graphics. This capability is ideal for applications requiring advanced visuals and realistic representations. Support for perspective projection, rotation, and scaling enables dynamic and immersive UI effects.

Custom Widget Rendering

Sparklet enables users to design and implement custom widgets tailored to their specific project needs. This flexibility ensures the graphical user interface aligns seamlessly with the desired design and functionality. Developers can define custom behaviors, interactions, and visuals to achieve unique UI experiences.

Granular Control of Memory Placement

You know your hardware best. Sparklet provides precise, fine-grained control over the memory placement of assets, framebuffers, and hardware layers. Strategically place resources in different memory regions (e.g., internal SRAM, external DDR) to optimize bus bandwidth, reduce latency, and fine-tune system performance.

Enter the Third Dimension: Immersive 3D for Embedded UIs

In a competitive market, a visually stunning UI is a key differentiator. Sparklet empowers you to move beyond flat interfaces and incorporate exquisite, informative, and interactive 3D content directly into your embedded GUI.

Powered by an industry-standard OpenGL ES / Vulkan-based rendering pipeline, Sparklet helps you realize the full potential of modern GPUs. Render complex 3D models imported from tools like Blender to create:

- Realistic 3D vehicle models in automotive clusters for diagnostics and ADAS visualization.
- Interactive product replicas, in industrial HMIs for training and maintenance guides.
- Dynamic, animated 3D icons and characters in next-generation consumer electronics.

Even on platforms with limited 2.5D graphics accelerators, Sparklet’s powerful transformation engine can achieve near-3D effects like perspective projection, rotation, and scaling, making your user interface more intuitive, interactive, and unforgettable.

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Production-Ready Code Quality

We understand the demands of mission-critical systems. Sparklet is developed by industry experts with a relentless focus on quality. Its source code is fully MISRA C-compliant and rigorously validated with leading Static Code Analysis (SCA) tools to ensure unmatched reliability, safety, and performance.

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Unmatched ROI vs. Traditional Frameworks

Sparklet provides a clear advantage over heavy, proprietary frameworks. Our royalty-free licensing model eliminates per-unit costs, and our lightweight architecture allows you to use more cost-effective hardware. This combination of faster development and lower hardware cost delivers a superior return on investment.

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A True Development Partner

When you choose Sparklet, you get more than just software. You get a dedicated partner. Embien provides exceptional, direct-to-engineer support to our licensees, ensuring you can solve challenges quickly. Our flexible licensing and continuous feature updates ensure you always have the tools you need to stay ahead.

A Superior Developer Experience That Accelerates Your Timeline

A great GUI library isn't just about the final product; it's about empowering your development team. We have obsessed over the entire developer experience (DX) to ensure your engineers can build, debug, and deploy faster and with greater confidence.

Rapid Prototyping & Iteration

Go from concept to interactive prototype in hours, not weeks. Our Flint UI Designer provides a live, pixel-perfect preview of your application. This allows engineers and designers to collaborate seamlessly, test UI flows instantly, and make changes on the fly, dramatically shortening the development cycle.

Clean, Maintainable, and Safe Code

Build on a foundation of trust. Sparklet’s MISRA C compliant codebase is perfect for safety-critical projects in automotive, medical, and industrial domains. Our API design encourages a clean separation between UI logic and your core application, leading to code that is easier to maintain, scale, and debug.

Comprehensive Documentation & Resources

Never get stuck. We provide clear, comprehensive API documentation, a library of ready-to-use examples, and a rich developer knowledge base. This empowers your team to get up to speed quickly and solve challenges independently, backed by our expert support team when needed.

Ready to See These Features in Action?

Unlock the full potential of your embedded user interface with Sparklet - a powerful solution designed to simplify embedded GUI development without compromising performance. Whether you're starting from scratch or enhancing an existing design, Sparklet’s lightweight architecture and support for platform-independent embedded systems make development seamless.

Our expert team is ready to assist you at every stage. Let us help you choose the right plan to meet your project goals - efficiently, effectively, and with confidence.

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