Partnership gives MATLAB and Simulink users full-scale support in CGI Studio.

Linz, Austria – October 7, 2019 – Candera GmbH, supporting its worldwide automotive and industry customers with the well-known HMI design tool CGI Studio, announces that it has now become an official member of the MathWorks Connections Program. MathWorks is the world’s leading developer of technical computing software for engineers and scientists.

The MathWorks Connections Program is available to third-party organizations that develop and distribute complementary, commercially available products, training, and consulting based on MATLAB® and Simulink®. These partner offerings address technical needs across a wide range of applications and industries worldwide with software and hardware products that extend the usage of MATLAB and Simulink. These solutions seamlessly integrate with MathWorks products and ensure ongoing compatibility in conjunction with new MathWorks releases.

Candera has provided a Matlab and Simulink integration in CGI Studio for some years

Candera has provided a MATLAB® and Simulink® integration in its HMI design tool CGI Studio for some years. CGI Studio is a scalable and hardware independent HMI and GUI design software. The software enables creation of brilliant and customizable 2D/3D HMIs of all kinds for the automotive area and beyond. The CGI Statemachine Connector is a solution to integrate a 3rd party statemachine tool into a CGI Studio application using the CGI Studio Courier Framework. It can be used for Runtime and Simulation Environment. The Statemachine Connector supports MATLAB and Stateflow and requires usage of the CGI Courier Framework.

About Candera

Candera, is a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. It supports its customers with the CGI Studio tool environment as well as provision of software services mainly in the areas of HMI development and embedded software. Candera GmbH in Linz/ Austria and Candera Japan Inc. in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo/Japan are both part of the ArtSpark Group situated in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo / Japan.

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As a leading international world fair with its exclusive focus on embedded technologies, the Embedded World Exhibition & Conference reflects the main trends of the sector. From 26th to 28th February, 2019 more than 1100 exhibitors from all over the world showcased their products and services at the exhibition center in Nuremberg/Germany. It was the first official presentation of the new company CD (Corporate Design) of Candera GmbH (formerly Socionext Embedded Software Austria) that recently had been bought by ArtSpark HD in Tokyo / Japan (details about the transfer of ownership see below).

Candera was presenting a mix of innovative HMI solutions and technologies in the area of embedded HMI design – the latest novelties in the fields of Automotive HMI design and embedded software. One of the highlights at the Candera booth was the „Holi Cluster & IVI Solution“ a completely new designed holistic showcase based on Candera‘s innovative HMI Design tool, CGI Studio.

Candera’s HMI solutions based on different targets like Kirin 960s (Android), NXP, Intel, Cypress and TI (from the left)

New: Holi HMI solution

Candera‘s new Holi solution has been created with CGI Studio and is based on Android/Linux. It shows, how multiple displays are perfectly interacting and communicating with each other. This is possible due to Candera’s powerful messaging and data binding tool Courier Interaction Framework for smooth interaction between the HMI application and external data sources. Based on modern hypervisor technology this holistic solution combines both: seamless communication and maximum user experience.

Additionally to the Holi HMI Candera was showcasing solutions based on innovative technologies like hypervisors, functional saftey and hardware like Renesas, Intel, Socionext, Android and many more.

Thomas Kaufmann (Candera sales manager) talking about holistic HMIs at the exhibitor forum

Presentation at the exhibitor’s forum

Thursday 28th, at 11:30 am, Thomas Kaufmann, Candera Sales Manager, was talking about the holistic HMI approach at the exhibitor forum in hall 3. For all those who missed this interesting talk, a live recording will be available soon within the next weeks and we will share it with you.

As a leading international world fair with its exclusive focus on embedded technologies, the Embedded World Exhibition & Conference reflects the main trends of the sector. From 25th to 27th February, 2020 more than 900 exhibitors from all over the world showcased their products and services at the exhibition center in Nuremberg/Germany. Unfortunately, the corona situation also affected this fair resulting in a reduced overall number of visitors at the exhibition. However, especially on the second day the attendance of the Candera booth was quite good with high quality leads within the automotive, industrial and home appliances sector.

Candera was presenting a mix of innovative HMI solutions and technologies in the area of embedded HMI design – with novelties in the automotive and home appliances solutions. Highlights at the Candera booth were the „Holi Cluster & IVI Solution” and a newly developed Smart Oven UI.

Candera’s HMI solutions based on different targets like Kirin 960s (Android), NXP, Intel, Cypress and TI (from the left)

Candera’s smart oven user interface with scan & bake app

Smart Oven User Interface

Based on CGI Studio Candera has developed an Android-based smart oven user interface. This full digital UI (with baking and cooking function) of a next generation’s oven, is not only particularly user-friendly and appealing, but has been expanded by a smart Scan & Bake app.The app installed on a conventional smartphone enables to scan the barcodes on the back of common food packaging (e.g. frozen product packaging for pizza, lasagna, etc.) and to transmit this data directly to the oven UI. After one scan the user can directly start the baking process or adjust the settings according to his/her personal choice. The advantage for the user is obvious: this smart UI-interface is particularly user-friendly and enables a quick and easy handling.

Functional safety, hypervisor and augmented reality

Additionally to the Holi HMI Candera was showcasing solutions based on innovative technologies like hypervisors, functional safety and augmented reality.