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The Serious Human Interface™ Platform Total IDE (SHIPTide) is a rapid GUI development tool enabling the GUI designer to completely specify all aspects of your user interface, including layout, events, actions, and resources (fonts, images, etc.).

SHIPTide exports a binary file called a "cargo", that is loaded onto the bulk FLASH storage of a Serious Integrated Module. SHIPEngine then, on boot, unpacks and makes the GUI described in the cargo come alive:

Technical Information and Training

• SHIP Technical Documentation
• Video Training Library
• GUI Reference Manuals for SIMs
• SHIP Application Notes including example SHIPTide projects and training notes

Downloads

Click here for older SHIPTide releases.

Updating your SIM's SHIPEngine Firmware from SHIPTide

Starting with SHIPTide v5.0.107, you can now update any SIM with firmware v5.0.107 and newer from within SHIPTide.

If your SHIPTide is prior to v5.0.107 and you have SIM225 or Renesas YLCDRX64N/YLCDRX63NE, follow these one-time instructions.

Just launch SHIPTide, and select File->SIM Programming:

You will then see the SIM Programming Panel, where you can not only update the SIM's firmware, but also its boot loader elements (Tug and Paddle) as well as its GUI all in one operation. If you want to update multiple SIMs of the same time in the same way, you can have several SIMs plugged into your PC and select multiple units.

1. Choose the SIM you want to update; you can update multiple similar SIMs at once
2. Choose the SHIPEngine file you want to burn into your SIM(s)
3. Select Program to perform the operation.