Technology and Tips for Developing Rich UIs on IPTV and STB Products

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Overview

Consumers continue to find user interfaces on TV products, including Set-Top Box and IPTV, to fall short of expectations in a technology rich world where products have exciting and dynamic UIs.  Many product manufacturers are not effectively leveraging existing technology such as drag and drop UI implementation tools and graphics processing units to readily gain a significant improvement in user experiences. 

Learn how to produce impressive UIs by utilizing powerful UI implementation tools and graphics accelerators that are capable of powering high-end 2D and 3D UIs with advanced lighting, reflections and other Open GL/ES 2.0 effects. Product managers and developers can utilize these powerful technologies to  produce stunning UIs and differentiated TV products without a large investment.

What You Will Learn

  • The need for smarter, richer and more dynamic UIs in TV, IPTV and set-top boxes
  • How the latest graphics processing units provide the horse power for these UIs
  • The development challenges and solutions in creating stunning 2D & 3D UIs across many markets or customers, without having to invest in large development teams

About the Presenter

Presenter Image Phil Burr

Product Marketing Director, Inflexion

Phil Burr, Inflexion Product Marketing Director for Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Division, is responsible for Mentor's graphical user interface product line. Phil has over 18 years of experience in the embedded industry holding technology, business, and leadership roles. Prior to Mentor, Phil co-founded Octymo, a wireless start-up focused on a low-end mobile phone application platform. Prior to this, Phil held senior leadership roles at Motorola and TTPCom; based in Asia, he established and managed a pan Asia customer facing team. Phil has also held account management, business development, product management, and software engineering roles primarily in the mobile phone sector. Phil holds a Masters Degree and a First Class Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electronics, Communications and Computer System Engineering from the University of Bradford, UK.

Who Should View

  • Product Managers looking at ways to differentiate their TV, set-top box and IPTV products
  • Engineers wanting to know more about implementing high-end UIs that use Open GL/ES

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