ALT Software is the world’s leading supplier of software solutions that enable 2D and 3D graphics in embedded computing system displays. Our products can be found in devices used in the Aerospace and Defense, Industrial, Medical, Consumer, Mobility, and Automotive sectors. We specialize in enabling the OpenGL ES and OpenGL SC open standard graphics API in embedded devices.

Latest news from ALT Software...

Channel One International conducts temperature screening of AMDs high performance GPU for high reliability and safety critical embedded platforms. Product offering includes 20-year component lifecycle management. ALT Software provides DO-178B certifiable COTS graphics drivers for safety critical RTOS-based systems. Read the full press release...

DDC-I and ALT Software integrate support for the AMD/ATI Radeon e4690 GPU with DDC-I's Deos operating system using ALT's DO-178B OpenGL libraries Read the full press release...

ALT Software and Channel One to provide ATI Mobility Radeon™ X1400 and industrial-tested ATI Radeon™ E4690 graphics chips, device drivers, DO-178B Level A certification kits, and 20+ year component availability to mil-aero manufacturers. Read the full press release...

ALT Software Products

OpenGL SC / DO-178B Safety Critical Drivers

ALT Software's DO-178B Level A graphics display drivers enable avionics developers to create content-rich graphics applications and user interfaces for mission and safety-critical systems deployed in aerospace and defense environments. ALT’s drivers are certifiable up to Design Assurance Level (DAL) A, the highest level of software criticality recognized by the FAA, EASA, Transport Canada and the JAA. More...

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OpenGL 1.x / OpenGL ES 1.x Fixed Function Drivers

ALT Software provides high performance embedded OpenGL drivers for embedded computing platforms that employ hardware accelerated graphics. Tuned to our customers’ specific hardware and software configurations, our drivers surpass Windows desktop commercial OpenGL driver benchmarks by up to 50%. More...

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OpenGL 2.0 Programmable Drivers

ALT Software’s OpenGL ES 2.0 drivers for select GPUs are specifically designed for embedded platforms and support a programmable graphics pipeline. These drivers enable our customers to create and deploy advanced graphical applications that employ OpenGL ES Shading Language (GLSL 1.0) shaders and program objects. More...

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OpenGL ES / OpenGL SC Software Renderer

ALT Software's OpenGL Renderer is a software library tailored for general purpose and safety-critical environments. This efficient, small footprint software library acts as a software GPU and performs software-based graphics rendering in embedded systems that control both general-purpose and safety critical systems with a single, consistent API. Certifiable to DO-178B Level A, the OpenGL Renderer is designed to be deployed in aerospace and defense systems and other environments where performance and reliability are critical. More...

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Hybrid Media Library

Hybrid Media Library is a software library and device driver architecture that addresses key industry challenges by bridging gaps between media API and graphics hardware on all classes of embedded devices, ranging from software-only and FPGA implementations to low-power programmable GPU and high-performance SoC processors with graphics cores. More...

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Embedded X11 Libraries

ALT's embedded X11 libraries provide support for X11 client and server applications deployed on real time embedded operating systems. Available in either standalone configurations or tightly integrated with ALT’s OpenGL graphics drivers, the implementation has been developed from the ground up for portability and to run on a wide range of processors, embedded operating systems, and graphics devices. More...

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Wind River WindML

Wind Media Library (WindML) provides 2D graphics support for applications running on the VxWorks RTOS. This feature-rich API enables functions such as window management, text display, 2D graphics, region management, video overlay support, alpha blending, and jpeg image support. More...

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IData Visual Systems Products available through ALT Software

IData Tool Suite

IData Tool Suite is a tool-based Human Machine Interface (HMI) application development and deployment environment. It offers unmatched advanced features for creating powerful HMI applications that are portable to any target platform.

The tool suite consists of the following components:

• IData Designer is the cost-effective HMI development tool.
• IDataMap is an add-on module for IData that offers compelling, high performance 2D/3D digital map displays and geospatial visualization capabilities based on industry standard data formats.
• IData3D is a high-performance, real-time 3D scene management library module for IData that renders 3D data content from industry standard tools on desktop and embedded platforms.

Through IData’s innovative technology, application developers can create HMI applications for a number of applications. More...

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IGL 178

IGL 178 is a software Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) that features high performance, high quality rendering tailored to efficiently present graphics in embedded systems. It offers application developers a scalable solution for embedded graphics that supports both non-accelerated and accelerated graphics subsystems with a single, consistent API. IGL 178 is designed for embedded applications in which a hardware GPU is not desired or required. Out in the field, processing power needs to be supplied in a manner that provides consistent performance and low system complexity.

IGL 178 is developed for graphics rendering in environments without a GPU and features a tiny footprint, small code base, and extremely fast and efficient performance. IGL 178 implements the industry standard OpenGL SC (Safety Critical) API, allowing applications to be developed for IGL that can be scaled for use in hardware accelerated systems. More...

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