Consumer Electronics

The increasing acceptance of consumer electronics in every aspect  of daily life has opened up the market for various types of connected/smart devices. Mistral offers product engineering services for design and development in the consumer electronics domain that meets the needs of product developers in this space. Mistral's solutions for the Consumer Electronics domain covers: personal devices for communication, navigation and entertainment like e-book readers, voice activated computers etc.; enterprise devices that facilitate wireless communication like VoIP Phones, NVRs etc. and infrastructure equipment like Digital signage, video surveillance etc. that enable centralized communication and monitoring.

Mistral has long standing partnerships/associations with leading semiconductor companies providing silicon based on ARM and DSP core. Mistral offers a range of Semiconductor Support Services and has designed development platforms for these companies. Mistral's team has built indepth experience in building solutions for Consumer Electronics around these silicon enabling design and development of consumer electronics products based on these silicon in an efficient and quick manner, allowing product companies to enjoy the benefits of quicj product turnaround and faster time-to-market.

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Mistral's development team has extensive experience in designing products integrating audio, video, wireless technologies and DSP Algorithms to provide world-class solutions for innovative next-generation consumer electronics devices. Mistral has been in the forefront, helping product developers bring out feature-rich wireless and multimedia enabled devices. Some of the award winning consumer electronics solutions for next-generation gadgets and connected devices designed and developed by Mistral are currently available in the global market.

The figure below showcases some of the Consumer Electronics devices that Mistral’s Team has worked on and has experience in developing.

Mistral’s expertise includes:
	Middleware and Embedded application development for consumer electronics devices Audio and Video codecs, video streaming, video data processing Playlist and Persistance Manager GStreamer based music player Media streaming libraries, media servers Wireless: FM-RDS, Navigation, GSM/GPRS, Bluetooth, Zigbee, GPS, WiFi supplicant Peripherals: CD/USB stacks, iPhone/iPad/iPod MFi, MTP stacks
	Integrating third party solutions Media streaming libraries and codecs Industry-standard codec integration OCR,Text-to-speech, Speech-to-text, Speech Recognition Object Recognition Currency/color identification Google online price check AEC, NR, ASR integration Skype integration (Audio/Video streaming)
	Hardware and firmware development Hardware software co-design System partitioning between HW, SW and FPGA Firmware and BSP Small-footprint, power-optimized designs Multiple RF and wireless Independent verification and validation.
	Eco-system to handle concept to deployment Design for Manufacturability Mechanical Design and Fabrication Compliance trials, certification testing Production support with test jigs and suites Product sustenance services

Platforms	OS Expertise	Languages and Tools
ARM: TI, Freescale, NXP, Samsung ARM +DSP: TI, Freescale DSP: TI, ADI PowerPC: Freescale, AMCC Microcontrollers: TI, Freescale, PIC, Renasas, Cypress FPGA – Xilinx, Altera, Actel, Lattice	Embedded Linux (Open source and proprietary) Android Windows Embedded	C, C++, Assembly Level Java Perl, Javascript UML VHDL and Verilog ARM, DSP and PowerPC development tools