During Tuesday’s current trade, Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)’s shares lost -0.38% to $31.61, as Wind River, a wholly owned partner of Intel® Corporation (INTC), is working with MathWorks to integrate Wind River Simics® with Simulink for improved model-based design workflows. This partnership creates smarter system verification by enabling testing and co-simulation of combined design and platform models, and assists drive better designs while removing risk from future development, test, and integration. By alleviating these risks, this solution can be particularly valuable to engineering teams developing complex and safety-critical products for industries such as aerospace and defense, automotive, and industrial markets.
Model-based design is transforming the way engineers and scientists work by moving design tasks from the lab and field to the desktop. In model-based design, a system model is at the center of the development process, from requirements development through design, implementation, and testing. When software and hardware implementation requirements such as fixed-point and timing behavior are comprised of in model-based design, teams can automatically generate code for embedded deployment and create test benches for system verification, saving time and avoiding the introduction of manually coded errors.
As part of an ongoing partnership with MathWorks, Wind River has integrated Simics with Simulink to support processor-in-the-loop (PIL) testing. Simulink is a block diagram environment for multi-domain simulation and model-based design, and has widespread usage for model-based design in the embedded system market. It supports simulation, automatic code generation, and continuous test and verification of embedded systems.
PIL testing checks that code generated from a Simulink controller model using Embedded Coder will run correctly on the actual processor that will be used in the final target system. Preceding to PIL testing, control algorithms are typically developed and validated on the host, using a high-precision floating point math and with no concern for the implementation system and any cross development tools such as compilers that can influence on-target behavior. The Simics PIL integration for Simulink is accessible recently for all Simics customers.
Intel Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells integrated digital technology platforms worldwide. It operates through PC Client Group, Data Center Group, Internet of Things Group, Mobile and Communications Group, Software and Services, and All Other segments.
During an early morning trade, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s shares declined -0.35% to $126.41, after Apple® declared ResearchKit™, a software framework designed for medical and health research that assists doctors, scientists and other researchers gather data more frequently and more accurately from participants using mobile devices, is now accessible to researchers and developers. The first research apps developed using ResearchKit study asthma, breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease, and have enrolled over 60,000 iPhone® users in just the first few weeks of being accessible on the App Store™.* Starting recently, medical researchers all over the world will be able to use ResearchKit to develop their own apps and developers can also contribute new research modules to the open source framework.
The open source framework allows any medical researcher to take advantage of the initial modules in ResearchKit to study health and wellness and better understand disease. Developers can also build new modules based on the open source code and contribute them to ResearchKit. The initial customizable modules address the most ordinary elements found in research studies—participant consent, surveys and active tasks.
- Participant consent: Participant consent is a critical element to research studies, and with ResearchKit researchers can access a visual e-consent template that can be customized to explain the details of the study and obtain participant signatures. This module makes it easy for the researcher to comprise elements such as video segments explaining the study and an interactive quiz to confirm the participant’s understanding.
- Surveys: The survey module provides a pre-built user interface that makes it easy to customize questions and answers for study participants to complete and right away share with researchers.
- Active Tasks: The Active Task module enables researchers to gather more targeted data for their study by inviting participants to perform activities that generate data using iPhone’s advanced sensors. Initial Active Task modules comprise tasks to measure motor activities, fitness, cognition and voice, and with the framework accessible as open source, the research community can contribute even more active tasks to ResearchKit.
ResearchKit turns iPhone into a powerful tool for medical research. When granted permission by the participant, ResearchKit apps can access data from advanced iPhone sensors like the accelerometer, gyroscope, microphone and GPS to gain insight into a participant’s activity levels, motor impairments, memory and more. ResearchKit works seamlessly with HealthKit™, a software framework Apple introduced with iOS 8 to provide developers the ability for health and fitness apps to communicate with each other. With permission from the participant, ResearchKit apps can access and use data from the Health app such as weight, blood pressure, glucose levels and asthma inhaler use, which are measured by third-party devices and apps.
Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and portable digital music players worldwide. The company also sells related software, services, accessories, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. It offers iPhone, a line of smartphones that comprise a phone, music player, and Internet device; iPad, a line of multi-purpose tablets; Mac, a line of desktop and portable personal computers; and iPod, a line of portable digital music and media players, such as iPod touch, iPod nano, and iPod shuffle.
J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP), during its Tuesday’s current trading session dipped -2.34%, to $9.18, as the retailer accidentally e-mailed sales data to a securities analyst, giving an early glance at its first quarter sales.
The mistake forced the department-store chain to share the data with investors under Regulation FD rules forbidding selective disclosure, Bloomberg reports, adding that to date J.C. Penney’s same-store-sales are up almost 6% for the period, aided by an early Easter.
J.C. Penney’s first quarter will run through the end of April.
Once the holiday benefits fade the company said its full quarter growth will likely be between 3.5% and 4.5%, surpassing the 3.1% the company guided for earlier, Bloomberg noted.
J.C. Penney Company, Inc., through its partner, J. C. Penney Corporation, Inc., sells merchandise through department stores in the United States. The company sells family apparel and footwear, accessories, fine and fashion jewelry, beauty products, and home furnishings, in addition to provides various services, counting styling salon, optical, portrait photography, and custom decorating.
Finally, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), lost -0.72% Tuesday, as Microsoft Corp. and KUKA AG, a leading manufacturer of industrial robots and automation solutions, are presenting a mutual application that shows KUKA’s Intelligent Industrial Work Assistant (KUKA LBR iiwa), built with Microsoft Azure Internet of Things (IoT) services.
Using precise movements and perceptive technology, this lightweight robot is able to sense its way around a complex task and perform precise automation movements safely and securely. This special feature enables KUKA LBR iiwa for human-robot collaboration. The combination with Microsoft Azure IoT services, Kinect hardware, and the OPC-UA communication standard leads to one of the world’s first showcases blending IT with robotic technologies into a smart manufacturing solution with new capabilities.
At the Microsoft booth (Hall 7, Booth C48) visitors can see the KUKA LBR iiwa perform the complex and delicate action of threading a tube into a small hole in the back of a dishwasher. Through this demonstration, KUKA is highlighting how its LBR iiwa can raise its partnership with humans to jointly perform the task as peers working together. Formerly this task could not be accomplished by traditional robots because the robot could not sense its surroundings, and its automatic movements would often break the appliance.
Microsoft provides KUKA with cloud technologies and Azure Internet of Things services to create smart manufacturing solutions for the shop floor based on sensitive and safe robots.
Microsoft Corporation develops, licenses, markets, and supports software, services, and devices worldwide. The company’s Devices and Consumer (D&C) Licensing segment licenses Windows operating system and related software; Microsoft Office for consumers; and Windows Phone operating system.
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