June 2008
Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a leading provider of complete technology solutions and professional services in the embedded space has announced the availability of the GNAT Pro solution from AdaCore, leading provider of commercial, open software solutions for Ada.

Used by industry and government customers worldwide in mission-critical software products ranging from small-footprint real-time embedded applications to large-scale information management systems, the GNAT Pro is a robust and flexible Ada development environment.

The comprehensive GNAT Pro Toolsuite includes a full Ada compiler, Integrated Development Environment (GNAT Programming Studio), a comprehensive set of utilities including a visual debugger, libraries and bindings and the latest technology addition, GNATbench plug-in for Eclipse allowing development teams to take full advantage of the benefits that Ada offers, thereby ensuring a smooth, cost-effective development process.

Distributed with complete source code, and backed by rapid and expert Ada support service the GNAT Pro allows development of pure Ada applications as well as Ada components in multi-language systems. It is the first Ada development environment to support all three ISO standards of the Ada programming language (Ada 83, Ada 95, and Ada 2005).

Employing AdaCore’s GNAT Pro High-Integrity Edition for DO-178B Ada environment, Mistral has initiated a project early this year that will enable the Indian Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) to create new safety-critical flight control systems and support advanced Indian defense programs.

GNAT Pro High-Integrity Edition for DO-178B supports the development of safety-critical and security-critical applications for embedded systems, servers and workstations. It is the ideal solution for any safety-critical development effort for avionics, high speed rail, nuclear shutdown, medical, and other industries where top levels of safety must be assured. It satisfies DO-178B and can support related standards including IEC 61508, RIA-23, and Def Stan 00-55/56.

About AdaCore
Founded in 1994, AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial software solutions for Ada, a modern programming language designed for large, long-lived applications where safety, security, and reliability are critical.
Ada and GNAT Pro continue to see growing usage in high-integrity and safety-certified applications, including commercial aircraft avionics, military systems, air traffic management/control, railroad systems, and medical devices, and in security-sensitive domains such as financial services. For more information about AdaCore, visit www.adacore.com.

June 2008
Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a leading provider of complete technology solutions and professional services in the embedded space has made available new rugged board level products supporting the new Xilinx Virtex®-5 FXT FPGA from Curtiss Wright.

The Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs enable the integration of high-performance GTX serial transceivers and features large numbers of DSP48E slices, and embedded PowerPC® 440 processor on a single FPGA, ideal for the high performance and low-power requirements of rugged defense and aerospace multi-computing applications.

Optimized for embedded processing and memory-intensive applications with highest-speed serial connectivity, the Virtex™-5 FPGAs offers integrated system-level capabilities that shrink design cycles and reduce system cost. The Virtex-5 FXT platform joins Curtiss-Wright’s Virtex-5 LXT and SXT-FPGA based products in the deployment of heterogeneous systems along with digital signal processing (DSP) and general purpose processing elements in a range of commercial and rugged environments. The new FPGAs’ support for low-power serial connectivity, including a built-in PCI Express® block, will ease and speed the integration of such systems.

Target defense and aerospace applications for which the Virtex-5 FXT is ideal include demanding image and signal processing problems such as radar, signal intelligence, software defined radio, and real-time imaging.

About Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing is the industry’s most comprehensive and experienced single source for embedded solutions, ranging from Processing, Subsystems, Data Communication, DSP, and Video & Graphics to the most advanced board level components and fully integrated custom systems. The Embedded Computing group serves the defense, aerospace, commercial and industrial markets and is part of Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc. For more information about Curtiss-Wright visit www.cwcembedded.com.

June 2008
Adax Europe Ltd, an industry leader in high performance signaling infrastructure, has announced a strategic partnership with India based Mistral Solutions, a leading product realisation company. The partnership will strengthen Adax’s position in the fast growing India and Sri-Lankan telecommunication markets.

Mistral Solutions will distribute Adax’s market leading SS7, ATM and IP product portfolio to leading telecom companies in the Indian region and will support the vendor’s expansion with a range of joint marketing and commercial activities.

Mujahid Alam, VP-Sales at Mistral Solutions comments: “We have been working in the SS7 / signaling market for the past eight years and during this time have achieved notable success reselling software stacks in the Indian market. By partnering with Adax we can now provide our customers with signaling hardware that will help us provide a complete signaling solution.”

Adax products are designed to meet the signaling requirements of today’s complex telecommunications environment, such as the convergence of SS7, ATM and IP networks. Mistral Solutions can now provide its customers with solutions that can deliver the high performance, total scalability, fast time to market and rapid return on investment that is essential for telecom companies to stay ahead in this competitive industry.

Robin Kent, Director, European Operations at Adax comments: “Mistral is renowned for its telecommunications expertise in the Indian and Sri-Lankan market and has a very strong and well-respected practice. We are excited about working with the team and feel its customers will benefit from the increased usability Adax’s solution provides.”

The partnership deal will come into effect immediately.

About Adax Europe Limited
Adax Europe Limited specialises in signaling infrastructure for today’s converging networks, covering all protocols and popular hardware formats to provide the right solution for any signaling requirement. Adax high performance products are available for PSTN, GPRS, 3G and IMS networks.

Adax signaling solutions deliver the high performance, total scalability, fast time to market and rapid return on investment that are essential for telecom companies to stay ahead in a competitive and ever changing industry. Solutions include signaling communications controllers for SS7, ATM and IP; integrated signaling protocol stacks and blades for SS7 and SIGTRAN; and multi-purpose signaling gateways for SS7 and IP interworking.

Adax customers include some of the world’s premier telecom suppliers such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and Motorola; and value added service (VAS) providers and system integrators such as Apertio, Bharti Telesoft, and IP Access.

For more information, please visit: http://www.adax.com/