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Candera to be certified as first HMI tool partner for Infineon’s TRAVEO™ II Graphic Controller Family

February 15, 2021 – Linz/ Austria – Candera is excited to announce that it has been accredited as first certified partner within Infineon’s HMI Tool Certification Program. Infineon has designed this special evaluation program in order to ensure the best customer satisfaction and experience when using HMI software with the TRAVEO™ II Graphic Controllers.

Picture 1: Candera to be certified as first HMI tool partner for Infineon’s Traveo II-C

Since many years Candera, a leading HMI-tool provider, has been cooperating with Cypress, an Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / QTCQX: IFNNY) company in order to create the perfect HMI solutions for the TRAVEO-series, starting with the reference board Amber S6J3200 up to TRAVEO II Graphic MCUs (CYT4DNxxx). So, there was no hesitation for Candera in participating at Infineon’s latest HMI Tool Certification Program and to successfully implement the defined requirements: setting up a full virtual animated dashboard as well as a warped dual Head up Display using CGI Studio and the TVII-C CPU boards, while leveraging all the HW features that the GPU offers.

A special challenge within the virtual dashboard was the implementation of the animated media coverflow between the 2 gauges. Since all media graphics of the dashboard were only available in 2D, the whole coverflow has been realized in 2.5D, allowing a similar depth perception than 3D. For this 2.5D implementation Candera had to provide the possibility to dynamically change the transformation matrix of all objects.

Furthermore, cluster and HuD were based on 3 different layer types: IBO (Image-based operation) for traditional frame buffer drawing, LBO (Line-based operation) Increased BLIT engine performance and reduced memory and OTF (On-the-fly mode) to reduce VRAM memory consumption. All of them implemented successfully by the Candera team.

The head-up display had to be accomplished in two different modes, warping off (for projection on planar surfaces) and warping on (for projection onto the windscreen). Similar like the transformation matrix of the 2.5D use case, the distortion for the warping has been created by using the display warping feature in order to simulate the bending of the windshield.

Within this HuD use case, CGI Studio also supports the text rendering by Traveo II draw engine.

Picture 2: Full virtual instrument cluster and warped dual Head-up display created with Candera CGI Studio on TRAVEO II

Candera is very excited to be the first certified HMI tool partner for Infineon’s TRAVEO™ II Graphics Controller.
“Infineon’s TRAVEO series has always been the perfect match for our HMI design tool CGI Studio, says Reinhard Füricht, general manager of Candera. “As certified tool partner we are more than happy enabling our mutual customers to create powerful HMI solutions with a special focus on low-memory footprint.”

Also, Sven Natus, Senior Director of the Automotive Microcontroller Business Unit at Infineon showed his appreciation “The implementation of compelling and cost competitive HMI solutions has ever been a challenge. We have been partnering with Candera for many years on the TRAVEO series. This certification now takes our partnership to the next level and enables customers to quickly and easily implement their HMI design while getting the best performance out of the system.”

About Candera

Candera, is a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. Candera 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.

About Infineon

Infineon Technologies AG is a world leader in semiconductor solutions that make life easier, safer and greener. Microelectronics from Infineon are the key to a better future. In the 2020 fiscal year (ending 30 September), Infineon reported revenue of more than €8.5 billion with a workforce of some 46,700 people worldwide. Following the acquisition of the US company Cypress Semiconductor Corporation in April 2020, Infineon is now a global top 10 semiconductor company.

Infineon is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: IFX) and in the USA on the over-the-counter market OTCQX International Premier (ticker symbol: IFNNY). Further information is available at www.infineon.com.

Meet Candera at digital Embedded World 2021

Experience the latest HMI solutions and attend Candera’s presentation about Next Generation of HMI Development

Linz/Austria, February, 2021 – from March 1-5, 2021 Embedded World will go digital and with more than 200 presentations will deliver a comprehensive and in-depth program of sessions, conferences and speaker slots. During these 5 days Candera will present its latest HMI solutions and give an interesting insight into the “Next Generation of HMI Development”, an online presentation by David Aberl, Head of Product Management, held on 2nd of March, at 11:25 AM.

Based on Candera’s HMI design tool CGI Studio, at Embedded World 2021 the company will present a mix of different HMI solutions for automotive, industrial and other applications. All solutions have been created with the assistance of a brand-new feature of CGI Studio, the AI based Smart Photoshop Importer. This feature is one out of many others of CGI Studio supporting the approach of leveraging designers’ creativity by simplifying the HMI development process as far as possible.

AI based Smart Photoshop Importer

Based on innovative AI detection algorithm technologies, Candera’s Smart Photoshop Importer has one major goal: to speed up the whole HMI creation process. In fact, this new feature enables to rapidly import Photoshop files into CGI Studio in order to automatically transform them into full functional HMIs. The technology behind this tool is an AI based UI/UX element detection and mapping technology that will help especially designers and graphic artists to save precious time and costs.

Image 1: Smart Photoshop importer automatically turns your UIs in full functional HMIs

More information about the Smart Photoshop Importer at Candera’s virtual booth.

TRAVEO™ II HMI Solution

Candera is excited to announce that it has been recently accredited as first certified partner within Infineon’s HMI Tool Certification Program. Infineon has designed this special evaluation program in order to ensure the best customer satisfaction and experience when using HMI software with the Infineon TRAVEO™ II Graphic Controller. At Embedded World 2021 Candera will show the certified HMI solution, a full digital instrument cluster and a warped dual Head-up display – both created with CGI Studio on TRAVEO™ II Graphic Controller.

Image 2: Full virtual dashboard and dual Head-up display created with Candera CGI Studio on Traveo II-C

Haptic User Interface

Together with next system and DATA MODUL Candera has developed an innovative HMI solution, supporting intuitive touch feedback technology. Featuring different use cases in application fields like industry, nautics, medicine and many more, the solution also includes a haptic pin pad, that supports person with visual impairment. This new solution will be available at the virtual booth and presented during the speaker slot.

Image: 3: Haptic User Interface created by Candera, next system and DATA MODUL

Holi(stic) HMI Solution

Holistic HMIs will not only have the ability to perfectly interact and communicate with each other, they will be able to connect with nomadic devices (e.g. Apple CarPlay, Google Android Auto) and consider both: the driver’s situation as well as the traffic environment.

Image 4: Holistic HMIs enable a perfect interaction and communication between multiple displays

Candera‘s Holi Solution has been created with CGI Studio and will show, 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.

Online Presentation: Next Generation of HMI Development

The Candera team is excited to invite you to its online presentation about Next Generation of HMI Development at:

2nd of March at 11:25 AM, at the exhibitor forum of Embedded World

In this presentation attendees will learn more about how the future generation of HMI tools will transform the entire process of HMI development forever. This paradigm shift has already started and will be further accelerated by the rising demand for immersive HMI experiences as well as by the growing users expectations. David Aberl, Head or Product Management will highlight the main requirements and trends modern HMI tools have to consider in order to successfully master this transition. More information and free registering on: https://www.embedded-world.de/

The Candera team is looking forward to meet you at digital Embedded World.

About Candera

Candera, is a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers.
Candera 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.

Candera, next system and DATA MODUL to present innovative haptic UI at Embedded World

Linz/Vienna/Munich – 16/02/2021 – Candera, a leading provider of HMI design tools, next system, a renowned expert of customized haptic hardware solutions and DATA MODUL, a leading partner for display technologies have been cooperating on the development of an innovative HMI solution, supporting intuitive touch feedback technology. Featuring different use cases in application fields like industry, nautics, medicine and many more, the solution also includes a haptic pin pad, that supports person with visual impairment. This innovative haptic HMI will be presented at (digital) Embedded World, from 1-5 March, 2021.

Candera’s, next system’s and DATA MODUL’s haptic Multi-Scene HMI solution supports intuitive touch gestures for multiple use cases

Following several studies about the hierarchy of human senses, touch is often named as one of the most important ones after visual and auditory impulses. Therefore, it is not surprising, that not only our physical but also the artificial world can be enriched from an enhanced input of touch stimuli. The incorporation of haptics and touch feedback technology into displays and touch screens is no future trend, it has already found its way into many application fields like automotive, industry or medicine. Adding these intuitive operating concepts to static devices transforms standard UI solutions into immersive and living HMI experiences.

Based on these insights, Candera GmbH, a leading HMI tool provider, next system, a renowned expert in haptics, displays, computers and motors together with DATA MODUL, a leading partner for display technologies have merged their expertise in order to create a modern Multi-Scene-HMI solution with intuitive and haptic touchscreen support. The result is a highly perceptive User Interface that combines the best out of 2 worlds: perfect HMI design and enhanced haptic technologies.

Intuitive touch feedback of displays and devices is no longer a privilege of the automotive industry. It has already found its way into multiple application fields like industry, medicine, entertainment and many more. This is why Candera, next system and DATA MODUL have highlighted several different use cases across various industries, among them a 2D/3D excavator UI, a nautic sea map, an ultrasonic control unit, a dynamic cashpoint pin pad and more. Indeed, this pin pad supports persons with visual impairment, who can successfully interact with the UI purely based on the haptic and auditory feedback they receive from the device.

Intuitive Cash Point Pin Pad with haptic and auditory feedback to support persons with visual impairment

All of these use cases have been created with Candera’s HMI design tool CGI Studio, a highly intuitive and user friendly GUI design software. Thanks to Candera’s powerful render engine, the scenes not only feature pin sharp graphics but also 3D elements and animations. CGI Studio’s automated workflows, like the ready-to use controls, integrated state machines but especially the Smart Photoshop Importer have helped to rapidly turn the flood of images and animations linked to these multiple scenes into living HMIs – and this within only a few weeks instead of months.

next systems innovative hardware technologies were the perfect match to Candera’s HMI solutions. As a pioneer in haptic touch solutions, next systems target was to create a state-of-the-art haptic touch demonstrator for several applications. The device includes two 10,1“ touch screens with haptic feedback support based on electrostatic- and piezo-technology. Both screens include force-sense (Force measurement for targeted and safe triggering on the user interface) in order to ensure high quality user experience. The integrated haptic touch technology can be tailormade applied to almost all touch sensitive applications.

“With Candera, as a specialist in HMI UI design, next system found the perfect partner to realize this very versatile project in a very short time frame,” says Michael Nussbaumer, Product Manager for Display & Haptic Solutions at next system “The scenes, screens and functions where quickly created and integrated on the target hardware. The efficient cooperation enabled a quick and cost-efficient execution of the overall project.”

DATA MODUL provided the custom refined cover glass including the latest version of their SITO projective capacitive touch unit. Additionally, the display expert was taking care of the fine tuning mostly for touch adjustments and TFT driving. This set-up of all included components ensured the perfect combination and integration of Candera´s HMI and next system´s haptic touch solution.

The new haptic HMI solution will be presented the first time at Embedded World 2021 at the virtual booth of Candera as well as during Candera’s speaker presentation at the exhibitor forum on March 2, 2021 at 11.25 AM, in which David Aberl, Head of Product Management will talk about the Next Generation of HMI development tools.

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.

About next system

next system is an Austrian owner-managed company and leading provider of solutions and products in the areas of Motors, Embedded Computers, Displays & Touch, Medical Solutions and Haptic Touch Solutions. Long-standing and selected partnerships with established manufacturers, deep technical know-how and a strong understanding of our customers are the foundations of our success.

About DATA MODUL

DATA MODUL AG is one of the world’s leading specialist providers of display, touch, embedded, monitor and panel PC solutions. Since it was established in 1972, it has consistently pursued the objective of providing its customers with state-of-the-art, tailor-made and individually customized complete solutions for display technologies. The extensive distribution portfolio of displays, touchscreens and embedded solutions and the increasingly innovative in-house developments complete the unique modular product portfolio.

Exhibited at “The 13th Automotive World” in Tokyo

Candera exhibited at “Automotive World” on January 20 to 22, 2021 at Tokyo Big Sight in Japan and online. The 13th Automotive World https://www.automotiveworld.jp/en-gb.html

Automotive World Tokyo is the largest exhibition for the advanced automotive technologies worldwide. It is a combination of exhibitions & conferences covering important topics in the automotive industry such as automotive electronics, connected car, autonomous driving, EV/HV/FCV, lightweight, processing technology and MaaS. The Candera booth showcased the latest novelties in the fields of Automotive HMI design and Embedded Software, including a digital meter cluster running on Renesas Electronics’ “R-Car M3”, and a high-resolution cluster demo using Mentor Graphics’ real-time operating system. Furthermore, Candera introduced CGI Studio’s Smart Photoshop Importer, a brand-new feature, enabling a rapid and automated HMI creation. David Aberl, Candera’s Product Manager, presented about “Smart HMI Development – AI assisted UI/UX automation” online. In this presentation he introduced more about Candera’s Smart Photoshop Importer, and how this feature can especially support graphical artists and designers with no programming skills to automatically create full functional HMIs. R-Car M3 Cluster Solution This modern digital cluster on Renesas Electronics’ “R-Car M3” is one of the newest iterations of Candera‘s ambition to shape and create the future of automotive HMIs. It includes a modern design, PBR, Particle effects, Morphing and many more. Safety Certifiable High Resolution Cluster Demo This solution showcases safety separation between an advanced automotive cluster HMI application, implemented using CGI Studio, and safety-critical digitally displayed tell-tale warning indicators. It addresses the challenge of mixing safety-critical and non-critical information on a single instrument cluster display while satisfying essential safety requirements for automotive certification such as ISO 26262. Apart from those solutions, Candera presented several other innovative HMI solutions for the Automotive industry, like an AndroidTM based solution and the Holistic HMI approach. We had many visitors came to Candera booth. About Candera Candera, is a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. Candera 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.

LG Electronics and Candera GmbH to present an innovative AR solution

Linz/Austria – ‎Seoul/ South Korea, 9/11/2020 – LG Electronics Inc. is excited to announce the development of an innovative AR solution supporting various displays such as head-up display (HUD) and center information display (CID) for automotive and in-vehicle use. This modern AR solution displays situational key information like ADAS alerts, navigational hints, point of interests (POIs), or pedestrian detection directly onto the road by augmenting the real world with computer-generated visual graphics. It also supports fully customizable modeling of AR user interfaces without complicated coding to enhance the user experience (UX). This is the result of the collaboration with Candera GmbH, one of the leading HMI tool providers for automotive and industrial customers worldwide.

LG Conniro™ AR provides an intuitive user experience by augmenting the real world with computer-generated visual information.

LG’s AR solution supports intuitive AR scenes to reduce driver distraction

With the growing number of vehicles on the road the need for safety and reduced driver distraction is one of the most important factors driving the integration of AR solutions for HUDs and CIDs in the automotive market. Furthermore, whilst in the past head-up displays often were an optional or standard feature for premium cars only, in the near future they will also find their way into economy and standard vehicles. OEMs worldwide are currently exploring the possibilities and use cases of this new technology.

Based on this awareness LG Electronics Inc. situated in Seoul/ South Korea has been boosting its efforts to develop a modern AR solution that works with various in-vehicle displays such as HUD and AVN/CID. Unlike traditional HUDs displaying static information AR Head-up displays go one step further by blending in key information directly onto the lane and into the driver’s field of view. This of course requires the integration of a huge amount of vehicle sensor data, enabling a real-time projection of information, warnings and alerts. To implement these complex requirements LG Electronics has developed a powerful AR engine in order to be able to merge the real world with the digital content. LG AR engine is built upon the advanced sensor fusion framework that merges information observed by in-vehicle sensors in real time and predicts the future state of all interest objects around the car. This sophisticated signal processing framework ensures the stabilization of AR contents against vehicle dynamic motions and achieves reduced time delays, caused by system latency, between AR contents and the real world. LG’s AR engine is well optimized in terms of computational complexity, such that it achieves high frame rate in low performance system-on-chip (SoC) environments. In addition, it is also applicable to mobile devices like Android phone by using built-in mobile sensors as input to the AR engine.

LG’s AR solution features navigational hints, safety guides and an advanced POI Service

Combined with LG’s enhanced visualization technologies the result was a modern AR solution supporting intuitive AR scenes like navigational hints (route carpets, directional arrows, goal pins, POI highlights), ADAS alerts (active cruise control, lane departure warning, forward collision warning, pedestrian detection), and many more. Currently, LG’s AR solution is ready for the market and is in the process of mass production with a number of OEMs. “We believe that our technical readiness will provide better values to our customers, and mass production experience of various OEMs will further expand our business in the market” said Sukjin Chang, vice president of Smart Mobility Lab. in LG Electronics.

Candera CGI Studio makes LG’s AR solution fully customizable

To make the AR solution fully customizable for different OEM UX requirements LG was looking for an experienced HMI expert and development partner. That’s when Candera came into play. The Austrian HMI tool provider was enhancing the existing HUD with the powerful Candera render engine, to minimize latency and enhance clarity of the indicated information. “Especially when it comes to ADAS alerts or safety warnings, it is important that the information is displayed in real-time with zero delay” explains Roberto Hofer, technical sales manager of Candera. ”Incorporating further performance and latency optimizations into our render engine, we can ensure an in-time visualization of warnings as well as a pinpoint accuracy of visualized objects even at high speeds.”

AR simulator allows convenient development with recorded or simulated traces without permanent real-track necessity

Another common OEM requirement is an easy and fully customizable HUD. This was realized with Candera’s HMI design tool CGI Studio that has been developed on a user-friendly no coding approach. Indeed, CGI Studio’s ready-to use controls and automated workflows will support OEMs to customize the automotive AR solution to their personals needs without programming a single line of code.

For more information about the new AR solution please contact:

LG Electronics Inc.
Jaebok Choi
Tel.: +82(10)8780-7051
[email protected]
www.lg.com

Candera GmbH
Roberto Hofer
Tel.: +43 (676) 848255271
E-Mail: [email protected]
www.candera.eu

About Candera

Webinar – Smart HMI Development

It is a great pleasure for us to invite you to the:

Webinar – Smart HMI Development – AI assisted UI/UX automation

Abstract: The increasing amount of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) has led to an exponential growth of HMI development efforts and strained timelines for all employees involved in the UI/UX development process. As this trend most likely continues, an AI assisted HMI development approach could significantly streamline this development process in terms of complexity as well as time required.

Take-aways for attendees:

How could the AI assisted HMI development future look like?
Experience a live demonstration of Candera´s AI assisted HMI creation workflow and discuss possibilities thereof
Learn more about how your daily work could benefit from HMI tools, which are learning and supporting you better with each passing day.

Speaker:

David Aberl (Head of Product Management, Candera)
Patrick Andessner (Software Engineer, Candera)

Webinar Date:
Tuesday, 17th of November, 2020
10:00-11:00 AM (CET)

We are looking forward to meeting you in this webinar.

Your Candera team

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