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In order to ensure that Storyboard Suite would be the best UI development solution, AutoMeter wanted to test the software to verify that it could meet AutoMeter’s performance goals for the digital dashboard. Storyboard would be a good fit to develop the dashboard because of its small footprint and smooth, fast performance. With its goal to redefine performance instrumentation using state-of-the-art electronic visual displays, AutoMeter set a requirement for the dashboard to boot up with simple graphics within 2.5 seconds and then for the customized UI to appear within 5 seconds. After considering several potential solutions to address this engineering challenge, AutoMeter selected Crank Software and its product Storyboard due to its ease of use, rich graphics capability, and the ability to leverage these attributes to ensure a fast time to market. However, they needed a flexible UI development tool to power the digital dashboard that would help AutoMeter get the product to NASCAR quickly, and make it easy for the teams to use and customize. To develop a ruggedized, fast responding, and graphically rich display system for the next generation of NASCAR racing vehicles without sacrificing time to market or required extreme environmental specifications.ĪutoMeter researched multiple microprocessors and real-time operating systems that were available and selected the Freescale i.MX 53 processor running QNX. The challenge: THE NEED FOR SPEED AND USABILITY
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In addition, AutoMeter sought to make its product full of rich graphics that the race team could easily customize to change key design elements – like color, display type, layout and gauge location, and instrumentation scale – to match their individual needs or preferences with little to no programming experience.
The LCD screens would need to be visible in all lighting conditions, combine both analog and digital instruments in a small area, be fully sealed from water and dust, and be able to survive in a very high vibration, high heat, and electronically noisy environments. With LCD display systems prevalent in many of the latest vehicles, NASCAR challenged AutoMeter to bring the same rich, intuitive user interfaces to its race cars.ĪutoMeter was up to the challenge of ushering in a new era of technology to the racing world with a high performance, ruggedized, fast responding and graphically rich digital dashboard that will set NASCAR vehicles apart from other race vehicles.
Therefore, it came as no surprise when long-time customer NASCAR asked AutoMeter to develop a fully customizable LCD instrumentation system that would replace traditional instruments in the NASCAR cockpit. Since 1957, AutoMeter has provided world-class premium gauges, instrumentation, and test equipment for the automotive, military, marine, and racing industries.
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