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Candera CGI Studio Now Supporting Traveo™ II MCUs

Candera CGI Studio Now Supporting Traveo™ II MCUs

July 1, 2020 / Linz / Austria – For many years, Candera’s CGI Studio has been the HMI creation tool of choice when it comes to developing powerful HMI solutions on embedded Graphic MCUs for cost sensitive applications. Candera proudly presents CGI Studio, running on Cypress’ Traveo™ II automotive MCU, that supports all available features of this capable device like multi-core, as well as all-render modes – from IBO, LBO to OTF.

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With more than 20 years of embedded software experience, Candera supports customers worldwide in HMI creation – from low-end MCUs to high-end SoCs. “We know that especially MCUs with their massive restrictions on RAM and ROM are challenging HMI developers when it comes to creating powerful and reliable Human Machine Interfaces,” says Reinhard Füricht, general manager of Candera. “With more than two decades of experience in the market of embedded software, we started to develop UI creation tools in times where low-end devices were our daily business. Therefore, our core product, CGI Studio, is highly optimized for runtime and memory performance with a special focus on low-memory footprint.”

 

Candera on Cypress Traveo II

 Digital instrument cluster created with CGI Studio running on Cypress’ Traveo II

Starting in July, CGI Studio is now officially supporting Cypress’ Traveo II Graphic MCUs (CYT4DN series), the newest member of the Traveo MCU lineup. As always, we aim to fully leverage each of the MCU’s capabilities to its fullest with CGI Studio. Traveo II is a particularly strong contender in market segment up to Full-HD resolutions, offering unique features like multi-core, as well as all-render modes like:

• IBO (Image-based operation) for traditional frame buffer drawing
• LBO (Line-based operation) Increased BLIT engine performance and reduced memory
• OTF (On-the-fly mode) to reduce VRAM memory consumption

“Cypress has developed high-performance HMI solutions with Candera for several years now, including the automotive instrument cluster on our current reference board that was created with CGI Studio,” says Sven Natus, vice president of the Automotive Business Unit at Cypress, an Infineon Technologies company. “We appreciate that Candera is now supporting the entire feature set of our latest Traveo II family, allowing customers to leverage the full performance of the graphic subsystem and to further reduce their BOM cost.”

The latest HMI solution running on Traveo II is a fully digital instrument cluster that has been created with CGI Studio 3.9, released only a few weeks ago.

To experience the new solution on Traveo II, watch the movie:

For more information about CGI Studio 3.9 visit: CGI Studio 3-9

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 America Inc. are part of KAGA FEI Co., Ltd. , situated in Tokyo / Japan.

Candera announces Membership in the Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) and The Linux Foundation network

Candera announces Membership in the Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) and The Linux Foundation network

Candera proudly proclaims that starting with 15th of May, 2019 it is official member of Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) and The Linux Foundation. With Linux at its core the membership in these powerful networks will support Candera in further facilitating the collaboration across this open source system and leveraging the potential in many of its core markets.

Within the last years the open source operating system Linux has extended its application areas far beyond servers, smartphones, and tablets and has found its way into the automotive industry. In fact, Linux is currently powering infotainment systems, head-up displays and connected car systems for renowned OEMs worldwide like Toyota, Nissan, and Jaguar Land Rover.

As a leading HMI tool provider for the automotive industry Candera GmbH situated in Linz, Austria is dealing with numerous customer projects based on Linux OS, with tendency to rise even more in the upcoming years. The membership in the Automotive Grade Linux (a collaborative open source project bringing together automakers, suppliers and technology companies to accelerate the development and adoption of a fully open software stack for the connected car) and Linux foundation (supported by more than 1,000 members and the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware) is an important step for Candera.

“We strongly support Linux as in-vehicle operating system giving our customers maximum flexibility and a strong development community on an open source base,” said Reinhard Füricht CEO of Candera. “With CGI Studio we support TIER1s and OEMs worldwide in creating innovative GUIs like infotainment systems or digital instrument clusters while considering functional safety standards according to ISO26262. The open source approach of Linux perfectly matches with the open and continuous toolchain paradigm of CGI Studio, which can easily be integrated into existing workflows. We’re proud of being part of the Automotive Grade Linux and The Linux Foundation and looking forward to continuing our good cooperation as an official member.”