Application Fields

Since the primitive CNC system to the present popular smart handheld devices, MiniGUI has been applied in many products. The main application areas of MiniGUI can be divided to the following categories:

  • 2.5G/3G low-end and high-end mobile phone, WiFi phone, pocket media player, PDA etc.
  • Digital multimedia products like IP-STB, IPTV, Intelligent public telephone, videophone etc.
  • Industry meter, control system, POS and medical equipment etc.

Handheld Terminals

Hand-held devices (including 2.5G/3G smart phones, feature phones, WiFi phones, portable media players, PDAs)

The following figure are the MiniGUI-based application interfaces for a WiFi phone. This device is based on the eCos operating system.

Set-Top-Box

What is Set-Top Box

A set-top box is a device that enables a television set to become a user interface to the Internet and also enables a television set to receive and decode digital television (DTV) broadcasts. DTV set-top boxes are sometimes called receivers. A set-top box is necessary to television viewers who wish to use their current analog television sets to receive digital broadcasts.

In the Internet realm, a set-top box is really a specialized computer that can "talk to" the Internet - that is, it contains a Web browser (which is really a Hypertext Transfer Protocol client) and the Internet's main program, TCP/IP. The service to which the set-top box is attached may be through a telephone line as, for example, with WebTV, or through a cable TV company like TCI.

In the DTV realm, a typical digital set-top box contains one or more microprocessors for running the operating system, possibly Linux or Windows CE, and for parsing the MPEG transport stream. A set-top box also includes RAM, an MPEG decoder chip, and more chips for audio decoding and processing. The contents of a set-top box depend on the DTV standard used. More sophisticated set-top boxes contain a hard drive for storing recorded television broadcasts, for downloaded software, and for other applications provided by your DTV service provider.

Digital television set-top boxes are used for satellite, cable, and terrestrial DTV services. They are especially important for terrestrial services because they guarantee viewers free television broadcasting.

Screenshots

The fllowing figure is a web browser for a STB based on MiniGUI and an information terminal developed by Feynman Software.

Industry Meters

The fllowing figure illustrates some industry instruments and control systems based on Linux and MiniGUI.