Sparklet’s Features for Efficient Embedded GUI Development

Sparklet is a powerful embedded GUI development library engineered to create visually rich, responsive user interfaces across platform-independent embedded systems. With a high-performance rendering engine, versatile widget set, and support for custom animations, Sparklet enables fast, brand-consistent UI development. Optimized with a lightweight architecture, Sparklet delivers smooth performance even on resource-constrained MCUs and MPUs, ensuring fluid user interaction without taxing system resources. Its modular and portable design allows easy integration into diverse environments-whether it’s bare-metal, RTOS, or Linux-based platforms. Ideal for automotive clusters, industrial HMIs, wearables, and consumer electronics, Sparklet empowers teams to accelerate innovation from concept to deployment-delivering reliable, scalable, and engaging embedded UI solutions.

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Key Features of Sparklet

Sparklet streamlines embedded GUI development with its pre-built widgets, animations, and multi-language support. Its intuitive functionalities streamline the creation and deployment of advanced UI applications, ensuring engaging and customer-focused interfaces. Discover the powerful capabilities of Sparklet.

Intuitive GUI Designer

A WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) based GUI designer makes embedded GUI development seamless, enabling you to design, build, and run interfaces effortlessly with the Sparklet library. The entire process is streamlined within the Flint UI Designer IDE, making development as simple as a few clicks.

Efficient Rendering Engine

Sparklet features an advanced rendering pipeline optimized for embedded GUI development, delivering smooth, high-performance graphics even in demanding applications. By leveraging hardware acceleration and efficient algorithms, it ensures fast response times and minimal screen tearing - all within a lightweight, platform-independent framework.

No Code Development

Sparklet empowers codeless embedded GUI development through a UML-inspired Hierarchical State Machine (HSM) approach. Integrated with Flint’s data-driven design and variable bindings, it allows developers to build and manage UI logic without writing code - enabling faster, error-free deployment across platform-independent systems.

GUI Widgets Library

Sparklet, combined with the Flint UI Designer IDE, offers a rich library of preloaded GUI widgets designed by Embien’s experts. These widgets are ready to use with simple configuration, enabling faster and easier UI development. Each widget is optimized for embedded performance, ensuring minimal resource usage.

Lightweight Architecture

Sparklet is built with a lightweight architecture, optimized for resource-constrained embedded systems. It ensures minimal CPU and memory usage while delivering a high-performance visual experience, making it ideal for efficient and responsive embedded GUI development.

Rich Animations

Sparklet supports a wide range of animations, including alpha blending, slide-in/out, and pop-in/out effects, delivering informative and visually engaging user interactions. Efficient animation handling ensures smooth performance even on low-power embedded platforms.

Interactive Elements

Enhance user engagement with interactive widgets such as sliders, swipe buttons, carousels, and animated images in JPEG/PNG formats, delivering a smooth, mobile-like experience. Touch gesture support enables intuitive interactions like tap, drag, and flick. Built-in feedback mechanisms like highlights and animations enhance usability and responsiveness.

Multi-language Support

Sparklet supports Unicode fonts, right-to-left encoding, and translation tables, enabling end-products to be delivered in any language of choice. Dynamic language switching at runtime allows seamless localization without recompilation. Compact font management and bitmap font support help optimize memory usage in multilingual applications.

Sparklet - Hardware Specific Features

Sparklet is designed to harness the full potential of your hardware platform, ensuring optimal performance and seamless integration. Key hardware-specific features include:

GPU Accelerated Rendering

Sparklet fully leverages the graphical capabilities of the target hardware -whether a powerful GPU or a basic blitting engine. Its optimized rendering ensures smooth, efficient graphics performance, maximizing device responsiveness and delivering a superior user experience in embedded GUI development across diverse platform-independent embedded systems.

Sprite Engines/Hardware Compositors

Sparklet enhances graphical rendering by utilizing underlying Sprite Engines or Hardware Compositors. This enables efficient management and composition of graphical elements, resulting in improved performance and enhanced visual quality. Offloading rendering tasks to hardware components reduces CPU load and boosts frame rates.

CLUT/RLE/Swizzle Support

Sparklet supports Color Look-Up Table (CLUT), Run-Length Encoding (RLE), and Swizzle techniques to optimize image storage and rendering. Ideal for embedded GUI development, these features reduce memory usage and enhance performance - ensuring efficient graphics processing within a lightweight, platform-independent architecture.

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.

Fine Control of Memory Placement

Sparklet offers precise control over the memory placement of assets, widgets, and hardware layers. This allows developers to strategically manage memory utilization, optimize bus bandwidth, and enhance overall system efficiency. Support for placing resources in external, or cached memory regions enables optimal performance tuning.

What makes Sparklet a Preferred Choice?

Best Support

Embien provides exceptional support to its licensees, ensuring fast and efficient embedded GUI development. Our dedicated assistance helps developers achieve stunning graphics with ease and speed.

Stay Up to Date

With continuous feature enhancements to meet evolving market demands, our flexible licensing model ensures customers have access to the latest updates and improvements.

Code Quality

Sparklet is developed by industry experts with a strong focus on quality. Its MISRA C-compliant source code is thoroughly validated using leading Static Code Analysis (SCA) tools to ensure reliability and performance.

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