STMicroelectronics acquires graphical UI software specialist
10 July 2018
TouchGFX, from Draupner Graphics
STMicroelectronics have acquired Draupner Graphics: the developer of TouchGFX, a software framework that offers powerful graphics and smooth animations for embedded graphical UIs – with minimal 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 ArmCortex-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.
Said Daniel Colonna, Microcontroller marketing director at STMicroelectronics: “Draupner’s TouchGFX software is a highly advanced and optimised 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.
“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.
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