We are excited to announce Qt for MCUs 2.9, which comes with many key features to enable Qt for MCUs to support more use cases in the IoT, Consu

Qt for MCUs 2.9 Released

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2024-12-02 17:00:03

We are excited to announce Qt for MCUs 2.9, which comes with many key features to enable Qt for MCUs to support more use cases in the IoT, Consumer and Automotive segments. Here are few of the major highlights from the 2.9 release.

As part of the increased focus on IoT and Consumer devices, Qt for MCUs now has a generic Zephyr platform backend that makes fluid graphics on devices running Zephyr possible. As a more capable RTOS option with its linux-like features and backed by linux foundation, Zephyr RTOS is now very popular in the microcontroller-based dev world. Qt joined Zephyr Project as a Silver member to Accelerate IoT Development.

Qt supports NXP RT Crossover MCUs (i.MX RT 1050,1060 and 1064) with PXP graphics acceleration supported out-of-the-box. The qmlprojectexporter is now extended to export the Qt for MCUs project in a generic CMake format that allows its easy integration with WEST build system. A clear application build flow is defined to enable the integration of Qt Quick Ultralite project into existing Zephyr projects.

Qt for MCUs has always been the GUI framework for resource constraint microcontrollers running bare metal or Real Time Operating systems, with 2.9 the support is extended to MPUs running Linux . This means Qt Quick Ultralite applications now can run on any device running a Linux, which features a linuxFB or a DRM graphics backend. This will help users implement a lightweight and feature-rich GUI on entry-level MPUs without a 3D graphics accelerator on-board and gain better performance (RAM consumption, FPS) compared to standard Qt.