TI's OMAP5 is an ideal platform for next generation, compute intensive applications that require high-performance processing, real-time time control, advanced graphics, and fanless low power. These include, augmented reality, stereoscopic 3D, gesture recognition, machine vision, computational photography, secure wireless video streaming, multiple displays and more.

Mistral has the expertise to offer custom design services on the OMAP5 platform, which include, Product Design, Hardware Design, Embedded Applications, BSP & Firmware, Design for Manufacturability, Production Support Services, Product Lifecycle Support and Verification & Validation.

Mistral’s Audio Designs

Mistral has been the preferred contracting partner of leading companies for software and hardware development in the portable audio domain. Mistral’s team has successfully provided offshore and onsite support to leading Tier-1 companies in US, China and Taiwan in the area of portable audio.

Mistral has worked extensively on various portable audio projects across platforms like Windows CE 5.0/6.0, Linux and Android. Mistral’s team has worked on high-end portable audio chipsets from TI like AIC325x and AIC326x.

i.MX Based Designs

Freescale’s i.MX processors based on ARM® technology (ARM9, ARM11, ARM Cortex™-A8 and ARM Cortex-A9 core) offer the most versatile platform for multimedia and display applications in the consumer, automotive and industrial markets.

Mistral is a member of Freescale’s Alliance program and has extensive expertise on the i.MX platforms, these include, i.MX 35/53, i.MX6, i.MX21, i.MX27, i.MX25, i.MX51, handling several product development and reference design requirements for low power handheld applications, video telephony, video surveillance and automotive infotainment.
 

Building Native applications on Android using NDK

In today's embedded world, most real-time applications are developed using native language. This is due to the state-of-the-art compilers that generate optimized code for native language. But most Android applications are written using a customized version of Java, which is not apt for performance critical applications. An Android developer starts his learning from Java to build an Android SDK based applications. Hence, the chances are high that developers are not aware of the NDK used in conjunction with Android SDK to build performance critical portions of the application in native code. This paper touches upon all the topics that are essential to building an application using NDK.

Customization of Craneboard for an Electronic labeling solution

Mistral’s Craneboard is a low-cost, open-source hardware development platform that enables customers to develop general purpose computing and other applications based on the AM3517 Sitara™ ARM® Cortex™-A8 microprocessor. Named among EDN Hot 100 products of 2011, the Craneboard provides robust processor performance while delivering integrated peripherals not found on existing low-cost development boards.

Mistral was approached by a leading player in the area of Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) solutions to customize the Craneboard as an access point for the electronic tag. This case study showcases Mistral’s expertise in providing customization services on its development platform to help adapt it to an end product design for the customer specific application, with a quick turn-around time.

A Novel Algorithm Towards Lossy Image Compression Using FPGA

Due to the advancement of technology in medical and security, there is a prerequisite for huge storage of image .The performance and the storage area are the main challenge towards the compression and decompression of the image.

This paper presents a Novel algorithm for the lossy compression method, where the performance and storage has been proscribed with hardware descriptive language (HDL). In addition MSE (Mean Squared Error), PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio), Power and Area has been calculated and compared with various fractal compression algorithms.

Android IVI Demo on OMAP4

Over the recent past, Android has been evolving in the Automotive and Infotainment domain. IVI solutions built on Android OS are already proven in commercial deployment. Mistral's Automotive and Infotainment Team presents their latest offering -- AIVI "Android IVI".

This demonstrator showcases Mistral's strength in building end-to-end Automotive and Infotainment solution running Android on OMAP4. Key highlights of this demo include USB AV Media Playback, Apple Device Support, XBMC User Feel Layer, Rear View Camera Streaming and Wireless Audio Streaming.
 

Mistral adds OMAP5 and Jacinto6 to its offerings

Mistral now has access to Android and Linux software programs, related documentation and license rights for the OMAP5 and J6 platforms from Texas Instruments.

This provides Mistral the ability to deliver core Android and Linux components to customers designing OMAP5 and Jacinto based product designs. The components forming part of this package include hardware accelerated drivers for OMX frameworks for media applications, camera framework, multimedia sub-system device drivers, SDK driver packages, Linux and Android specific components, benchmarking reference, H.26x encode/decode, OpenGL framework among others.

Upcoming Events

There are some exciting technology events coming up in the months of April and May in the US. These include the Design West 2013 scheduled from 22 - 25 April, 2013 and the Multicore DevCon from 21 - 22 May, 2013. The events, consisting of cutting-edge product demonstrations, technical training classes and speeches from industry luminaries will provide valuable insight and education on topics such as new design methodologies, addressing design challenges and the latest in technologies and trends. 

Mistral’s team will be present at both these events. If you are attending these events and wish to set up meetings with our team to discuss on Mistral’s offerings, email us at sales@mistralsolutions.com or call Samyeer Metrani at +1-972-971-1355.