Difference between revisions of "SHIP Overview"

Revision as of 14:44, 23 May 2014

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

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 Version 4 (SHIPv4) has been available since 2012 and works well in many applications.

SHIP Version 5 (SHIPv5), released in 2014, has three major platform versions:

SHIPv5 Major Versions
Version	Status	HW Platform Support
v5.2	beta	New SIMx52 and SIMx62 high performance HMI platforms; Contact Serious for more information.
v5.1	mature	All production and legacy platforms, including SIM115, SIM225, SIM231, SIM243, SIM535, and SIM543
v5.0	retired	None; projects should be migrated forward to the lastest revision of SHIPv5.1

For more information on SHIPv5:

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 == SHIP Versions ==
-SHIP Version 4 (SHIPv4) has been available since 2012 and works well in many applications.  <br/>SHIP Version 5 (SHIPv5) is scheduled for April 2014 beta release and includes many new capabilities:
+SHIP Version 4 (SHIPv4) has been available since 2012 and works well in many applications.
-* Major communications enhancements, including the SHIPBridge Protocol with firmware updates and data movement over USB/SPI/UART
-* Runtime drawing on "canvas" objects
-* Larger font support and enhanced text placement with "textframe" objects
+{{:SHIP_Version_5}}
-* Language translation manager, including MS Excel translation import/export
-* Build configuration manager for single project/multiple output
-* Improved scripting performance, floating point support, and numerous new functions
-* Built-in bootloader for firmware (engine, cargo, etc.) updates
-<!-- See the [[SHIPv4|SHIPv4]] and [[SHIPv5|SHIPv5]] landing pages for more information. -->
 == Training and Applications Notes ==