STMicroelectronics Acquires Graphical User Interface Software Specialist Draupner Graphic
July 10 2018 - 9:01AM
- Acquisition to extend STM32 ecosystem with TouchGFX highly
advanced GUI solution for embedded applications
- Will accelerate TouchGFX roadmap and scale distribution to the
mass market
- TouchGFX with STM32 products offers market-best solution to
ignite "HMI of things" revolution (Human-Machine Interface)
Geneva, Switzerland, July 10, 2018 - STMicroelectronics
(NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across
the spectrum of electronics applications, today announced its
acquisition of software specialist Draupner Graphics. Draupner
Graphics is the developer and supplier of TouchGFX, a software
framework offering outstanding graphics and smooth animations for
embedded graphical user interfaces (GUI) with minimal resource
requirements and power consumption. Hosted on 32-bit
microcontrollers, TouchGFX enables high-end graphics that fully
live up to today's smartphone standards across all devices and
systems, including smart home and building automation systems,
appliances, wearables, and audio and video systems.
STMicroelectronics, manufacturer of the STM32 family of MCUs, is
a top supplier of 32-bit Arm® Cortex®-M-core MCUs with a powerful
hardware and software ecosystem that accelerates and facilitates
application development. Several of the STM32 product lines already
support TouchGFX.
"Draupner's TouchGFX software is a highly advanced and optimized
graphic user interface solution for microcontrollers. We have been
working closely with the team for 5 years and regularly see the
value TouchGFX is already delivering on STM32 MCUs in different
consumer, appliances, industrial, and medical applications, said
Daniel Colonna, Microcontroller Marketing Director,
STMicroelectronics. "The acquisition of Draupner Graphics will
accelerate both TouchGFX and STM32 roadmaps to offer embedded
developers and their customers more advanced features, raising the
bar of human-machine interfaces across all of the devices that
people interact with every day."
"As a leading software vendor on the global market, joining the
leading supplier of 32-bit embedded MCUs will give us early access
to roadmaps and plans that will speed feature integration and
increase adoption of our tools and STM32 MCUs," said Jorgen Mygind,
Business Development Manager, Draupner.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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