Consumer Electronics

The increasing acceptance of electronics in all aspects on daily life has opened up the market for various types of connected, smart devices. Mistral offers embedded design services for product design and development in the consumer electronics segment that address the needs of product developers in this space. These include personal devices for communication, navigation and entertainment; enterprise devices that facilitate wireless communication and infrastructure equipment that enable centralized communication and monitoring.

Mistral has a partnership / association 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. This has given us indepth experience in building solutions around these silicon. This enables us design and develop products based on these silicon in an efficient and quick manner, allowing product companies to enjoy the benefits of faster time-to-market. 

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 in this domain. Some of these award winning solutions for next-generation gadgets and connected devices are currently available in the global market..

Some of the Consumer Electronics devices that Mistral’s Team has worked on include:

Mistral’s expertise includes:
	Middleware and Embedded application development Platform-specific multimedia engines 2D and 3D graphics Applications that use various sensors and peripherals
	Integrating third party solutions Media streaming libraries and codecs Industry-standard codec integration OCR, Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech Wireless stack integration/customization
	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

Skill Set

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