Innovative HMI and Ultra-Low-Power Display –Elevating E-Bike Technology

EM Microelectronic & Candera Unveil Next-Gen E-Bike HMI at Embedded World 2025:

Neuchâtel, Switzerland & Linz, Austria – February 2025 — EM Microelectronic (a company of the Swatch Group), a global leader in ultra-low-power semiconductors and display solutions, and Candera, a pioneer in Human-Machine Interface (HMI) development, announce their collaboration to present a joint e-bike computer demonstrator at Embedded World 2025. The showcase combines EM Microelectronic’s advanced display technology with Candera’s CGI Studio-powered HMI, delivering a next-generation user experience for e-bike applications.

The demonstrator will be featured at both companies’ booths, allowing visitors to explore how cutting-edge touch display technology and intuitive HMI design create a seamless and efficient e-bike interface.

Innovation Driven by Broad Expertise in Low-Power Technology and HMI Development

The e-bike computer demonstrator integrates:

EM Microelectronic’s ultra-low-power touch display technology – ensuring high visibility, superior readability, and outstanding energy efficiency, crucial for battery-operated
e-bike applications.
Candera’s CGI Studio-powered HMI – providing an intuitive, user-friendly, and visually appealing interface designed for real-time e-bike performance monitoring driven by the cost-efficient and ultra-low-power MCU from ST Microelectronics STM32U5 utilizing the NeochromVG native 2D graphics accelerator.

With decades of experience in ultra-low-power ICs, RFID, energy-efficient displays, and wireless communication, EM Microelectronic is a key enabler of smart and connected devices across automotive, industrial, consumer electronics, and IoT industries. This expertise ensures the
e-bike computer demonstrator delivers superior performance and meets the growing demand for power-efficient, high-quality embedded touch displays. EM Microelectronics is a member of the Swatch Group Electronic Systems, a global powerhouse in low power consumption, miniaturization and time accuracy.

“By integrating Candera’s industry-leading HMI technology with our advanced ultra-low-power touch displays, we are setting new standards for e-bike user interfaces,” said Tobias SCHWAB, Head of Connected Modules & Displays at EM Microelectronic. “This joint demonstrator at Embedded World 2025 highlights our expertise in energy-efficient display solutions, making urban mobility devices more intuitive and power-efficient.”

“Today’s bike users expect a seamless and engaging interaction with their devices. Candera CGI Studio enables a fast and flexible HMI development process, ensuring a premium user experience,” added Stefan BINA, Business Development Manager at Candera. “Partnering with EM Microelectronic, a company with extensive expertise in low-power and touch display technologies, allows us to showcase a best-in-class solution for e-bike applications.”

See the Future of E-Bike HMIs at Embedded World 2025

Attendees of Embedded World 2025 can experience the joint e-bike demonstrator at:

EM Microelectronic’s booth: Hall 4A-620
Candera’s booth: Hall 4-248

About EM Microelectronic:

EM Microelectronic, a company of the Swatch Group, is an innovative ICs, modules & displays manufacturer. Developing the world’s leading technology platforms across everything ultra-low power, from low-power wireless to RFID, MCUs, sensor interfaces, energy harvesting and custom ICs, displays and electronic modules

About Candera:

Candera is a pioneer in HMI design software, offering innovative solutions for the automotive industry and wearables, medical, and household appliances. With a focus on user-centric design and cutting-edge technology, Candera continues to set the standard for HMI software development. For more information, please visit www.candera.eu.

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Candera further expands business activities into Israel

ITEC and Candera partner to introduce Candera’s high-end, non-coding HMI solutions to fast growing new market

Linz, Austria and Tel-Aviv, Israel, May 15, 2023 — Candera Gmbh in Linz, Austria, is excited to announce a new cooperation with ITEC Ltd. of Tel-Aviv, Israel, to introduce their HMI creation software to the Israeli market. Yoram Sacagiu, VP Sales and Marketing at ITEC, has already presented Candera at a local trade show.

Human Machine Interface (HMI) design tool and services provider Candera GmbH has expanded business activities into Israel, to meet regional demands. The increasing sales of premium products with high-end graphical GUIs in the region as well as growing customer preference for such HMI features led the way to the decision. Israel as a market is projected to hold the fastest growth in the region for HMIs.

Figure 1: ITEC and Candera joining new partnership

Known to make HMI creation for users without coding skills easy, Candera has become a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. By equipping more than 50 million cars to date, Candera has been providing cutting-edge HMI tools for one of the most demanding industries in the world. Their tools contain components for graphics, text, data binding, asset handling and more.

Now the experienced provider of complex, high-end automotive HMI tools takes the next step, opening up to new markets (e.g. Industrial, Whitegoods, Marine, Medical, or Commercial) with their effective non-coding and WYSIWYG approach: With Candera, all users, including those with low or even no coding skills at all, can easily create fully functioning, brilliant HMIs – opening the door to faster, more efficient HMI creation.

Candera offers two products, Candera Studio and CGI Studio. To bring them into the promising HMI market in Israel, Candera now cooperates with ITEC Ltd..

ITEC LTD.

ITEC Ltd. is an Israeli leading supplier of solutions and services for a wide range of professional industries, as well as for the Education market. For over 30 years, ITEC is at the forefront of Israel’s fast developing electronics industry, representing international leading manufacturers of software and hardware solutions.

“We are happy to add Candera products to our line of Embedded development tools solutions. Adding Candera’s HMI solutions will help our customers create displays fast with no coding skills needed. This collaboration will enhance ITEC’s offering to the local Embedded industry.” says Yoram Sacagiu, VP Sales and Marketing of ITEC.

Figure 2: Yoram Sacagiu, Vice President Sales & Marketing at ITEC

ITEC’s Development Tools

ITEC provides software and hardware solutions for Embedded Systems and for safety critical applications. Their broad range of advanced technology products cover the full spectrum of the design process, from architectural model-based design up to on board testing. The range of tools include – Real Time Operating Systems, JTAG Debuggers, Model Based design tools, Automatic Code generators, verification and validation tools, timing analysers, and prototype design boards.

Figure 3: ITEC website

ITEC’s Yoram Sacagiu has already taken first steps on the ground presenting Candera during the MDI Expo in March, the annual gathering of the Israeli medical devices and digital healthcare community.

Figure 4: Yoram Sacagiu presenting Candera for the first time in Israel during the MDI Expo on March 23rd

For more information, please contact ITEC: https://itec.co.il/
ITEC: 38th HaBarzel St., Ramat Hachayal / Tel-Aviv 6971054 / Tel: +972-3-6491202 / Email: info@itec.co.il

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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 (HMI Tooling and Services) and Candera America Inc. are part of KAGA FEI Co., Ltd., situated in Yokohama / Japan.

Pricol inks strategic alliance with Candera for high-end HMI software creation

Chennai, India and Linz, Austria

Pricol Limited, one of India’s leading high-tech automotive component and precision engineered product manufacturers, today announced a strategic partnership with Candera, a leading Human-Machine Interface (HMI) tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. This technology partnership with Candera will bring global HMI solutions into Pricol’s range of Next Generation Connected Driver Information System (DIS) products serving across all vehicle segments.

This Strategic Partnership will empower both companies to respond to automotive product design opportunities in India and globally with collaborative concurrent HMI development, shorter lead time, cost effective solutions – all made possible by having a single HMI tool to support Next Generation Display Systems shall be built on various Product Platforms which is indigenously developed by Pricol.

The partnership is in line with Pricol’s continuous endeavor in adopting the next generation Emerging Technologies as well as Systems and Software process, such as high speed Multi Core Processor, Larger Displays, CGI Studio by Candera, ASPICE, AUTOSAR, ISO26262, Operating System (OS) based and Providing Connected Solutions like Over the Air (OTA), vehicle tracking, remote diagnostics, predictive maintenance etc.

Candera’s user-friendly, no-coding HMI design tool CGI Studio is a highly intuitive, scalable and hardware independent HMI design tool. It allows the development of innovative and customizable embedded GUI solutions of all kinds for the automotive area, industry and home appliances market. CGI Studio provides multi language support, includes ready-to-use HMI controls and the Candera Smart Importer for instant combination of designs with logic in only a few clicks. The result are scenes that not only feature pin sharp graphics but can also support 2D, 2.5D and 3D elements and animations.

Commenting on the alliance, Mr. Vikram Mohan, Managing Director, Pricol Limited said, “With 4 decades of expertise, Pricol has pushed the boundaries in DIS development supplying high-end solutions across various vehicle segments. Our DIS products have immensely seen advancements in their visually impactful graphics content, high demand in customer convenience and ease of understanding information. Pricol had been looking for a suitable partner to design and develop HMI solutions collaboratively. With CGI Studio, Candera brings in an HMI solution tool which makes designing 2D / 2.5D / 3D graphics easy. It’s highlight feature, the Candera Smart Importer enables all users (including those without programming skills) to automatically generate full functioning HMIs using their designs from any graphics software – opening the door to faster, more efficient HMI creation. We are delighted to be partnering with Candera to enhance our capability to deliver Next Generation Connected High-End Thin Film Transistor (TFT) based Digital Information Archiving System (DIAS) (single and multi-display) that meet our customers ever evolving technological needs.”

With more than 20 years of embedded software experience, Candera supports customers worldwide in HMI creation. “We have been working with Pricol successfully during the past 12+ months to support building POCs for brilliant HMIs”, says Mr. Reinhard Füricht, CEO of Candera. “This strategic partnership now takes our alliance to the next level and we’re looking forward to supporting our mutual, worldwide customers to be successful in their business by creating powerful HMI solutions together with Pricol’s high-end technology DIS.”

About Pricol

Pricol Limited is one of India’s leading automotive components and precision engineered products manufacturers head quartered in Coimbatore. Pricol commenced its operations in the year 1975 in Coimbatore, South India and today it strides as a reputable global brand in the automotive component and products business, highly recognized by top automotive OEMs across the world. The company carries out its business and operations in Driver Information Systems and Sensors, Pumps and Allied Products, Telematics and Wiping Systems catering to leading automotive OEMs in Two / Three Wheeler, Passenger Vehicles, Commercial Vehicles, Farm Equipment and Off-Road Vehicles across India and in International Markets (45+countries) with 2000+ product variants.

Today the company has 7 manufacturing plants across Coimbatore, NCR, Pantnagar, Pune & Sricity, 1 subsidiary manufacturing plant in Satara, India and 1 manufacturing unit in Indonesia with 2 international offices in Tokyo and in Singapore. Pricol is powered by 5000+ strong, dedicated workforce which resolutely pursues the mission to be PASSIONATE, SUSTAINABLE, DYNAMIC and EVOLVING.

For more info, visit www.pricol.com

About Candera

Candera is a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. It supports its customers with the award-winning 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 CGI Studio @Embedded World 2023: High-Performance Automotive HMIs

Candera presents CGI Studio’s latest version 3.11 at Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany, from 14.-16. March. Perfect for creating brilliant HMIs, CGI Studio 3.11 now allows direct import also from Adobe XD files via Candera’s award-winning Smart Importer. Faster than ever and more secure: accompanying documentation helps to integrate CGI Studio 3.11 in an automotive Cybersecurity environment according to ISO/SAE 21434 standard.

With Embedded World finally back in their original time slot in Mid-March, the Candera team is on-site again in Nuremberg, Germany, presenting among other highlights, the latest version of their high performing HMI tool, CGI Studio 3.11 with the award-winning Smart Importer.

Visit Candera in hall 4, booth 4-479.

Automotive Cybersecurity: CGI Studio 3.11 ready to be integrated according to ISO/SAE 21434

With CGI Studio 3.11, Candera is supporting automotive OEMs and Tier1s in the successful integration of CGI Studio into their cybersecurity-related HMI application – reaching rapid and successful type approval for newly developed vehicle models.

The document guides cybersecurity experts through the recommended way of integrating CGI Studio as an off-the-shelf product (according to ISO/SAE 21434 chapter 6.4.6). It introduces the available configuration options for an ISO/SAE 21434 cybersecurity software stack, discussing known vulnerabilities related to the product, as well as to the various 3rd party and OSS components.

A CVSS v3.0 vulnerability report is also attached to support Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA).

Candera’s award-winning Smart Importer now imports graphics directly from Adobe XD

Candera’s Smart Importer now also directly imports from Adobe XD – giving full support to a wide range of graphics tools. The Smart Importer automatically transforms graphics into fully functional HMIs.

Based on innovative AI-detection technologies, Candera’s Smart Importer speeds up the whole HMI creation process. While other HMI design tools require the user to import each single element and add functionality to them one after another, Candera’s Smart Importer will do a direct import of a design file and enrich it with functionality automatically.

Users can import graphics files from Adobe Photoshop, Sketch, Axure RP – and now also from Adobe XD – into CGI Studio. Relevant components like gauges, sliders, buttons, and many more are automatically detected, and the most probable functionality can be added to each element.

For more of CGI Studio’s features such as a new extended control set, accelerated and improved user interface, enhanced samples and tutorials for easy onboarding and ready-to-use line and bar charts, click here.

CGI Studio represented at ST Microelectronic’s “Graphics Partner Wall”

Our silicon partners also appreciate CGI Studio’s reliability and variability. Among them ST Microelectronics, who will for the first time be presenting two Candera demos at their Graphics Partner wall in hall 4A.

Latest Automotive NoCoding demo at Candera booth

In addition, Candera will also present a demo for a multi-display solution featuring two separate screens for the meter cluster and IVI (in-vehicle infotainment), respectively. It uses the multi-display feature of CGI Studio to achieve linking between the displays on a single SoC, all without requiring the user to do any coding.

The Candera team is looking forward to meeting you at Embedded World from March 14-16. Visit us in hall 4, booth 4-479.

Request a trial version of CGI Studio: https://cgistudio.at/hmi-design/#trial

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 and Candera Studio tool environments, 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 Yokohama / Japan.

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Candera exhibited new demos featuring HMI design tool CGI Studio at 15th AUTOMOTIVE WORLD 2023

Candera exhibited at the 15th AUTOMOTIVE WORLD 2023, a trade show featuring cutting edge automotive technology that was held at Tokyo Big Sight between January 25th and 27th.

AUTOMOTIVE WORLD is an event where the latest technology in the automobile industry is shown off. This includes advancements in automotive electronics, connected cars, autonomous driving, and more. This year’s iteration was one of the largest events of its kind since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, seeing more than 75,000 attendees over the course of three days.

Every year since it was founded Candera has shown off their latest innovations at AUTOMOTIVE WORLD, and this year as well saw many people stop by the Candera booth.

At Candera’s booth, a new demo was on display for an HMI that uses LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) to assist in parking a car. By using such an HMI, the driver would be able to get more accurate information about objects surrounding the car than what a camera can provide.

With LiDAR, an object is targeted with a laser and the time for the reflected light to come back is measured in order to determine the distance to and shape of the object.

This technology has the benefit of being relatively inexpensive, allowing it to be easily implemented into a vehicle.

In addition, Candera also showed off a demo for a multi-display solution that runs on Renesas Electronics’ R-Car H3 SoC (system on a chip). This demo features three separate screens for the meter cluster, IVI (in-vehicle infotainment), and heads-up display respectively. It also uses the multi-display feature of CGI Studio to achieve linking between multiple displays on a single SoC, all without requiring the user to do any coding.

Candera also showed off a demo for a digital meter cluster for an EV (electric vehicle) that features important information for an EV such as the battery charge and nearby charging spots. This demo uses new “Control” features introduced into CGI Studio last summer with the 3.11 update which help the user easily integrate bar and line graphs. With this demo, Candera showed their commitment to creating the future of automotive UIs and realizing a more sustainable society.

Video of the EV meter cluster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkR4wbJVgwo

There were also a number of other demos featuring CGI Studio that were shown off at the Candera booth.

With over 20 years of experience in embedded software development, Candera offers a customizable product for our broad customer base. We work closely together with our customers and industry partners to provide solutions for both current and future HMI needs.

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https://cgistudio.at/hmi-design/

About Candera

Candera is a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. Candera supports its customers via the embedded HMI design tools Candera Studio and CGI Studio, the HMI authoring tool UI Conductor, and through the provision of services in the areas of HMI development and embedded software.

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