Ruben Sardaryan // Graphical User Interface

professional

GUI (Graphical User Interface)

Last 9 years I've been working in EDA (Electronic Design Automation) industry creating complex cross-platform GUI systems for large CAD tools.

2003-2008 Ponte Solutions, Inc.

Ponte Solutions, Inc. was recently acquired by Mentor Graphics Corporation.
www.ponte.com, www.mentor.com

At Ponte we created GUI for Yield Analyser and Yield Optimizer products.

• Highly portable GUI architecture, which included full-featured abstract GUI layer and system-dependent layers. This design allowed quick porting to different platforms, though only 2 engines were used: MFC (for Windows platform) and Qt (for Linux and Solaris).
• Container template library, secifically optimized for GUI needs (atomic updates, transactions, etc.)
• Full-featured layout viewer, which can use both Qt/MFC and OpenGL drawing API and switch between them dynamically.
• A number of custom controls, such as cached tree or list control, that can easily handle huge amounts of data (virtually - any, as long as you have enough disk space), and many other cool stuff...
• Rich graphical reporting system for visualizing data. Included different graphical chart generators. System can use Qt, GD2 or ImageMagick for rendering output.

Screenshots:

Here are some screenshots of Yield Analyser GUI. Click thumbnails to get a full view.

Main Window	Statistics Window	Tech Scopes Window
Layout Viewer with Reports	Layout Viewer Detailed View	Layout Viewer Critical Area View
Layout Viewer Rulers/Markers	Layout Viewer Color Map	Layout Viewer View Menu
Preferences Dialog	Set Statistics Dialog

Photo-realistic Layout Viewer

At Ponte I also created a working prototype of photo-realistic Layout Viewer, which utilized advanced caching techniques to produce photorealistic (as under microscope) microchip image and allow you to quickly navigate it. Here are some examples of results achieved with that viewer:

Comparison of Photo-realistic image vs. simply drawn image (click to enlarge)