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The Serious Human Interface™ Platform

The Serious Human Interface™ Platform (SHIP) is a rapid GUI development and deployment system with five main ingredients:

• SHIP Total IDE (SHIPTide), the PC/Mac/Linux based IDE for developing your GUI
• the cargo binary data file that SHIPTide exports, containing your whole GUI including fonts, images, layout, audio, compiled scripts, communications, and more
• the Serious Integrated Module (SIM) hardware that hosts your GUI and becomes your new front panel, communicating typically by UART to the rest of your system
• SHIPEngine, the embedded runtime firmware on your SIM that runs GUIs that SHIPTide exports
• Communications, including the upcoming SHIPBridge Protocol, enabling communications between the SIM and your system

First Steps

Want to learn a bit more about SHIP? Here are a few resources that can get you familiar with SHIP concepts and capabilities before you dive deeper:

• SHIP Technical Overview Presentation  ↴ 
• AN0301 - SHIPTide First Look (video 4m27s)
• Overview of the Box Model... all about SHIP containers

SHIP Versions

SHIP Version 4 (SHIPv4) has been in production since 2013, and is sufficient for many applications. The upcoming SHIP Version 5 (SHIPv5) is scheduled for beta release in April, 2014 and includes many new capabilities.

See the SHIPv4 and SHIPv5 landing pages for more information.

Training and Applications Notes

• Video Training Library
• SHIP Application Notes including example SHIPTide projects and training notes

Technical Reference

• Platform and Port Reference (includes property reference)
• Node Reference (includes property reference)
• The Box Model, the Text Model, and Fonts
• Multi-Language Support
• Data Types
• Communications
• GUI Reference Manuals for SIMs