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Build Your Brand's Own Software-Defined Vehicles 

 

Manage your software lifecycle and create unique user experiences in your software-defined vehicles, using Qt's end-to-end tools for automotive HMI design, development, testing, and deployment.

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Qt in Automotive HMI Design

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Instrument Cluster

Leverage Qt low footprint and graphics acceleration capabilities to deliver a comprehensive view of the car status with razor-sharp real-time graphics, even on MCU-based devices.

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Infotainment System

Enjoy full HMI customizability, connectivity, and 3rd-party application management to access the outside world from your car—and your car from any place.

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Head-Up Display 

Leverage Qt fully data-driven real-time rendering capabilities to disclose road information by means of non-distracting augmented reality visuals. 

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Rear-Seat Entertainment

Let your passengers access their own favorite home entertainment from the seat of the car, with Qt Web Application and connectivity capabilities.

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ADAS

Take advantage of Qt real-time 3D rendering to increase your safety on the road by means of realistic visualizations of the car in its actual environment.

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HVAC

Qt’s rich set of visual effects and input methods can turn your air conditioning or audio system into immersive experiences effectively enhancing the in-car experience.

Optimized Productivity in Automotive HMI Development

Streamline your workflow and increase your productivity by letting your UI/UX designers, technical artists, developers, and test engineers teams speak the same language.

With a range of products encompassing the whole lifecycle of HMI production, Qt Group's technology and tools increase synergies across teams, simplify processes, and reduce the effort of delivering future-proof automotive software.

A Single Source of Truth for All Teams

Break down silos and increase your team’s productivity.

By sharing the same codebase across all teams, Qt technology ensures one source of truth, minimizes dependency issues, and simplifies large-scale refactoring.

Efficient Designer-Developer Workflow

Unleash the power of a UI creation tool where user experience is built hand-in-hand with code.

Qt Design Studio enables an integrated working methodology for UI/UX designers and developers that drastically reduces complexity and efforts, with vast benefits on time to market and cost.

Streamlining Operations

Reduce costs, time-to-market, and maintenance effort with tools for each production stage that speak the same language.

The adoption of a unified HMI framework whose tools encompass design, development, testing, and deployment delivers major benefits in terms of productivity, efficiency, brand identity, and quality.

Creating for Safety and Quality

Ensure the quality, safety, and reliability of your automotive HMI software.

Qt Quality Assurance lets you test your software quality beyond the automotive user interface to assure its overall compliance with coding guidelines (e.g. MISRA), regulations (e.g. ISO 26262 ASIL D), and standards (e.g. AUTOSAR). 

Cloud-Based Development and Testing

Create your vehicle on the cloud to speed-up time-to-market and reduce development costs. 

Development on cloud enables testing a variety of environments—from  different hardware and software configurations, to digital-twin simulations—without dependence on any physical hardware until the perfect solution is ready.

 

Qt Automotive HMI Framework

Leverage over 15 years of mass-production history with the world-leading automotive players and millions of automotive HMIs in the market—and more to come.

Far beyond simple UI development, Qt Framework lets you define the entire platform’s middleware, empowering broad support to automotive functionality, third-party services, and advanced graphics—while delivering a native user experience on any target.

Flexible Framework

Leverage a wide set of HMI libraries that can be easily extended and customized with C++ code across the whole automotive software stack.

With its easily readable, declarative syntax, QML offers ample creative resources to efficiently build outstanding HMIs whose behavior can be customized with the greatest flexibility by means of C++ code.

Platform-Independent Code

Leverage the efficiency of an HMI creation workflow decoupled from hardware constraints.

Cross-platform means that software can be developed on PC and ported to a variety of devices and operating systems, saving time by removing duplicate work.

Functional Safety Certification

Meet the road vehicles' functional safety regulations up to ASIL D.

Built in conformance with the automotive industry standards and MISRA code guidelines, Qt Safe Renderer is certified for safety-critical applications in road vehicles.

 

Ready-Made HMI Components

Build at scale with high-quality standardized HMI components that can be easily customized for different devices and models.

Qt HMI solutions include ready-made components—such as menus, widgets, animations, visual effects, and more—that will bring the dashboard to life with rich automotive-specific functionality and state-of-the-art graphics.

Future-Proof Technology

Secure your market presence throughout your software-defined vehicle program lifecycle.

Qt platform-independent code saves your HMI from the risk of hardware and OS obsolescence. Being maintained for years, Qt long-term releases secure your product’s market permanence over time.

Software-Defined Vehicle Approach

Maximize the value of your automotive software by owning and controlling its entire lifecycle from inception to completion.

By providing ready-made support for the whole automotive software stack and the backbone of the entire car ecosystem, Qt Group's technology empowers the foundation of a true software-defined vehicle revolution.

One Framework to Control Every Display

Unify performance and user experience across every display in the car.

From Android Automotive, to QNX, automotive-grade Linux, Integrity, and more, Qt unifies the HMI experience under a single framework, enabling control and customization of key components of the connected car infrastructure, such as Cluster, Infotainment, Connectivity, and more.

Boosting Real-Time Graphics

Leverage high-performance 2D and 3D graphics to increase informativity and functionality. 

Qt's low-footprint 3D graphics enable the representation of complex life-like situations, complemented by intuitive 2D controls for seamless interaction. Additionally, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, Direct3D, and Metal can easily be embedded in Qt applications and integrated with, e.g. safety-critical elements.

A Cross-Platform Signature UI

Deliver a coherent signature UI across each screen in the car.

Qt cross-platform code lets you reuse visual assets and UI elements across different devices, both in-car—instrument cluster, IVI, HUD, etc.—and portable—phones, wearable, PC, etc.—ensuring that your uniquely branded user experience is consistently displayed.

The Connected Vehicle

Enjoy the freedom to connect your car to your everyday life.

By enabling remote control via smartphone and companion apps, Qt connectivity tools bring your car to your fingertips. Qt-supported connectivity protocols integrate your vehicle infotainment system with your home and IoT devices.

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Customer Stories Written with Qt

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Qt helps Suzuki optimize development costs without falling into vendor lock-in

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Stellantis uses Qt for rapid prototyping and cross-platform HMI development with advanced 3D effects.

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Qt is the key HMI partner for Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis, streamlining development and maintenance.

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Koenigsegg leverages Qt for supercar development, valuing its professional framework.

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Harman uses Qt Framework as an accelerator to unlock competitive advantages and highly customized solutions.

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In partnership with Qt Group, Siemens uses Qt Automotive HMI to bring its digital twin solution PAVE360™ to life with interactive visuals and rich functionality.

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Strategic Playbook

 

Software-Defined Vehicles Need Software-Defined Leaders

You are delivering the software-defined vehicles the market demands. But the constant struggle with complex integrations, painful compliance, and costly software recalls proves hardware-first processes are still broken and slowing you down.

This playbook isn't for companies that are failing. It's for technical leaders who know the current cost of success is unsustainable. Learn how to shift to a software-first mindset and discipline, and take ownership of your architecture to eliminate complexity at its source.

 

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Supported Hardware and Operating Systems

Check all Qt-supported platforms and readily available BSP.

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Qt Professional Services

Unlock Qt's full potential by leveraging the technical expertise and industrial experience of the core Qt developers.

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Functional Safety

Qt Safe Renderer ensures prompt and correct display of safety-critical information under any circumstances—including system failure.

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Qt in Industrial Vehicles

HMI applications built with Qt meet the highest standards of quality, efficiency, and reliability—and are built to last on the market for decades.

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Qt in Micro-Mobility

With a scalable solution for any vehicle display, you can now provide advanced functionality and state-of-the-art graphics on your entire product portfolio.

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Build Your Software-Defined Vehicles with Qt Group

Qt brings over 30 years of mass production expertise across 70 industries, ensuring the success of your automotive software stack.

With a solid presence in the consumer electronics, industrial automation, and medical industries, UI applications built with Qt meet the highest standards of quality, security, and reliability—and are built to last on the market for decades.

 

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