Your Jumpstart for Embedded Development

Get Qt Running on Your Embedded Platform Quickly and Painlessly

Software often ends up being the final barrier before a new product with embedded hardware can be released to manufacturing. The Qt® framework helps reduce the magnitude of this barrier by allowing the development of embedded applications on desktop systems using a virtual framebuffer well before the actual hardware is available. However, at some point, you need to cross-compile for your target platform and test your application on the real hardware.

Embedded ARM® Processors

Gumstix Verdex Pro (XScale™)

ICS used Verdex Pro as a performance test bed for a client that was developing a custom board with the Marvell® PXA270 processor. This project called for ICS to port Qt 4.5 to the embedded platform, validate the port, and assess its CPU performance and memory footprint. This project allowed our client to determine weeks in advance whether the custom board was going to provide sufficient performance.

Embedded World Exhibition & Conference

ICS will be showing our multi-camera security monitoring application while participating within The Qt Company booth at Embedded World Exhibition & Conference will be held February 23-25 in Nuremburg, Germany.

ICS and Toradex Announce Collaboration

ICS to Provide Support and Consulting for Qt Applications on Toradex Platforms, Providing Powerful Options for Embedded Developers 

Nürnberg, Germany, February 26, 2014 — ICS is pleased to announce a partnership with Toradex® to provide support and consulting services for developing Qt® applications on the Toradex Colibri and Apalis platforms. This collaboration brings new opportunities to embedded developers, combining the power of the Toradex platforms with the flexibility of Qt UI framework.

Building Qt 5 on Raspberry Pi

This is a HOW TO guide for building Qt 5 for the the Raspberry Pi, and building and deploying Qt 5 apps using Qt Creator.

Please, may I have another slice of Raspberry Pi...

About three weeks ago, Nokia arranged for ICS to gain access to the Raspberry Pi board so that we could help with an exploratory open source effort to get Qt working on this platform. That is how I got my chance to hack some code for this amazing board. The idea was to get a bleeding edge version of Qt 5 to run and to experience first hand hardware accelerated QSceneGraph based QML. And indeed bleeding edge it is - but also blazing fast. Now, first things first:

Qt 5 + Raspberry Pi Demo

Here's a video of my colleague, Roland Krause, demonstrating Qt 5 + Raspberry Pi at Qt Dev Days in Munich. Stop by our booth in San Francisco next week to see it first hand...and for your chance to win one of your very own!

Raspberry Pi is Shipping

The Raspberry Pi boards are now shipping in volume from the distributors and unboxing videos are showing up all over the Internet.

If you were one of the winners of a board from ICS you should have received an e-mail today with the details on how to redeem your voucher. If not, check your spam filter (we've had some reports of the e-mails being marked as spam).