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Qt for MCUs

Design & Develop High-performance Applications for Embedded Microcontrollers

Qt for MCUs is a complete graphics framework and toolkit to create and deliver smartphone-like user experiences on resource-constrained devices.

Available under Qt Device Creation license, Qt for MCUs brings the creative power of Qt to the realm of embedded microcontrollers, enabling UI reuse across MPUs and MCUs and rapid development with ready-made components.

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OPTIMIZE

With MCU-grade Tooling

Harness the power of a toolchain tailored to resource-constrained devices.

With its low footprint and highly optimized libraries, Qt for MCUs is designed to deliver high-performance UI applications on MCUs and low-end MPUs.

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SCALE

Across Any Platform

Run your application on any type of device.

Qt's truly cross-platform architecture lets you reuse code, tools, and assets across different projects, with major gains in terms of time-saving and consistency across devices—including mobile, desktop, MPUs, and MCUs.

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SAVE

Time & Money

Deliver a premium UX in a cost-effective way.

Thanks to its optimized performance and ultralight libraries, Qt for MCUs lets you run visually compelling applications on the most resource-constrained devices, helping you reduce time to market and BOM.

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ASSURE

MCU Software Quality

Ensure the highest quality of your MCU code and UI.

By harnessing Qt Quality Assurance portfolio, Qt for MCUs helps you deliver best-in-class MCU software that meets the industry standards of safety and security.

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Limitless Scalability with a Flexible and Agile Framework

Included in Qt for MCUs

Lightweight Graphics Engine

Ensure optimal performance on resource-constrained embedded systems by leveraging Qt Quick Ultralite out-of-the-box hardware acceleration, low memory footprint, and ultra-light UI controls.

QML

Quickly develop your user interfaces with an intuitive and expressive UI definition language whose declarative syntax is easy to understand even for non-programmers. The QML language offers all the creative resources and the flexibility to build outstanding UIs on any device—including MCUs.

Ready-made Ultralight Controls

Save time and money by leveraging highly optimized UI elements tailored to low-end devices that can be customized to fit your own brand's look and feel.

Fonts and Images

Render fonts at runtime or compile-time, with high-quality anti-aliasing for smooth text rendering.

Qt for MCUs offers extensive support for various pixel formats—8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit—and efficient PNG and RLE compression for optimized image storage and transmission.

Powerful Animation Capabilities

Create an interactive, dynamic, smartphone-like UX on any low-end device with a rich set of animation tools. Qt for MCUs supports keyframe animation, built-in animation effects, property animation, and different interpolation methods and easing curves to bring your UI to life.

Long-term Support and Maintenance

Enjoy API stability and a steady roadmap committed to fulfilling our customers' needs. Qt for MCUs' long-term support and backward compatibility ensure your product's market permanence over the years.

Developer Tooling

Boost your software development experience with Qt Creator, a complete and intuitive cross-platform IDE featuring WYSIWYG design, code editor with syntax completion, debugging & profiling tools, and more!

Additionally, Qt for MCUs' tools and workflow integrate seamlessly with the most popular embedded third-party IDEs—such as IAR, Green Hills, and others.

Development Tools

From PC to Target Device

Enjoy the freedom to develop your application on PC even before the actual hardware is ready for deployment. By decoupling UI app development from deployment and testing on target, Qt for MCUs allows great flexibility and major time savings.

Design Tooling

Boost your productivity by importing designs straight from Figma, Photoshop, and other content authoring tools and automatically converting them into functional code. Qt Design Studio allows UI/UX designers to bring their designs to life with compelling animations, simulation tools, and web sharing capabilities.

Qt Design Studio

Internationalization

Scale across markets and regions with advanced Internationalization and Localization tools helping you translate your software to any language—including right-to-left, bidirectional scripts, complex diacritics, scriptio continua, etc.

Features and Licenses for MCU Development

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RECOMMENDED LICENSE

Qt for Device Creation Professional

Get license for key functionalities for device creation while fully retaining intellectual property rights.

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RECOMMENDED LICENSE

Qt for Device Creation Enterprise

Get a license for a more comprehensive feature set for developing embedded devices, additional value-added services, or full technical support, while fully retaining intellectual property rights.

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