Our customer, an established leader in marine electronics, develops and produces a complete range of electronic equipment for light marine and recreational vessels. Communication software and systems, radars, autopilots, global positioning systems, chart plotters and fish finders constitute our customer’s product basket.

Our customer’s line of multifunction display systems sits on a common software framework. Such multifunction displays support accelerated data sharing between displays, video integration with remote cameras, and full function multi-stations. A dedicated provider of diesel engines, drives and auxiliaries for boats – offering sales and support in more than 100 countries – retained our customer for a bespoke version of the multifunction display software for its compact, lightweight diesel engines. The customer entrusted Mindteck with the customization exercise after satisfying several criteria such as iterative development approach, incremental release strategy, reduced time-to-market and global resource arbitrage.

The Solution

Post our customization, the software ran on the customer’s line of multifunction display systems using available control keys. The display system had a custom ThreadX kernel and rendered via PegX (portable embedded GUI for ThreadX). The underlying NMEA CAN implementation interacted with hardware components. MSVC++v6.0 language system was used with ARM support.

Apart from cost arbitrage, the customer benefited from:

	An iterative development approach and incremental release strategy
	Common configuration and issue management systems
	Mindteck’s offshore development center providing high quality talent pools at lowered costs, architecting rich value for the customer
	Mindteck’s specialty expertise in delivering bespoke marine software solutions