Non-Invasive Medical Devices

One of the key trends in the medical devices market comprises of non-invasive medical procedures - or "health without needles”. These devices aid painless treatment, reduced costs and less post-operative stay in hospitals thereby alleviating a patient’s quality of life.

Mistral’s Product Engineering Services Team has worked with leading product developers in the medical electronics domain, helping them bring out non-invasive medical devices for communication, data acquisition and assistance.

Some of the projects that Mistral’s team has worked on include:

	Wireless Hospital Communication System
	RFID based Prescription Reader
	Fetal Heartbeat Monitor
	Barcode Scanner for Visually Impaired
	Multilingual Medical Assistance System
	Programmable Embedded Controller

Mistral’s expertise in offering product design services for the Non-Invasive Medical devices segment 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 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