MISTRAL SOLUTIONS

Management Speaks

Dear Customer,

Another successful and eventful financial year has come to a close and the year 2015-16 appears to be heading towards exciting developments and rapid growth. We had a significant restructure within the organization recently and I am happy to announce the appointment of Mujahid Alam as the new CEO of Mistral Solutions. Being associated with Mistral from several years, most of you will be aware that Mujahid most recently served as the Senior Vice President of Mistral’s Defense Business Unit.

The launch of the much-touted ‘Make in India’ initiative has led to a huge spurt in expectations for the year. There were several promising statements made by the PM at the Aero India Show this year, but the budget does not specifically speak of the measures to be taken. One concrete defense-specific measure visible in the budget is the allocation for ‘Make’ projects for which Rs. 144.21 Cr. has been allocated.

Though slow, there are several interesting developments taking place and I believe as a nation, we are headed in the right direction. With several exciting projects in the pipeline, our team at Mistral is geared up to meet the challenges and opportunities that will come our way in the next year.

We would love to hear from you, do feel free to write to me.

Wishing you a successful financial year ahead!

Cheers,

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Anees Ahmed
President

New Products

XMC-725 Graphics Controller from Curtiss-Wright

The XMC-725 is the lowest power AMD Radeon E8860 embedded graphics controller available. This rugged XMC mezzanine module delivers dual independent channels of graphics output in full military -40 to +85°C operating temperature environments, yet requires < 17W of power. The XMC-725 is ideal for applications where very low-power is required, lower clock rates are acceptable, and/or an additional 3U VPX slot is not available.

10.4" LCD Mission Displays from Curtiss-Wright

The AVDU2600 10.4" rugged LCD Mission Display is a new generation of display from Curtiss-Wright designed for ground vehicle and airborne applications. This rugged LED LCD display features all the advanced functionality of our current mission display product family and introduces new technologies with a new screen size with XGA resolution.

The AVDU2600 10.4” inch multifunction mission display comes loaded with a full feature set including dual LED backlighting for NVG filtering, resistive touch screen, heater glass embedded into an optically bonded LCD stack for operation in cold climates, in built quad generation for viewing 4 video feeds at once and much more.

New Rugged 5-Slot 3U Mission Computer Introduced from Curtiss-Wright

The Multi-Platform Mission Computer MPMC-9355 is a leading edge, flexible and rugged processing system which can be readily configured to meet the needs of any military or aerospace requirements. The MPMC-9355 is an integrated information processing system, providing complete hardware and software solutions.

The MPMC-9355 mission computer leverages Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) technology in application-specific requirements to provide a high performance, state-of-the-art computing solution. The MPMC-9355 is designed to meet the harsh environments of many military and commercial computing applications.

Articles

Whitepaper on ‘ The Power Architecture® QorIQ™ Platforms: Architectural Benefits for Small Form Factor Embedded Applications’ from Curtiss-Wright

Today’s embedded, aerospace and defense industries rely heavily on modern, embedded technology solutions that cater to the power, size, and performance requirements needed for mission-critical systems. The Power Architecture QorIQ family of System on a Chip (SoC) platforms from Freescale offers designers a range of advanced SOCs, with different levels of performance, power, cost and programmability in a compact package.

Curtiss-Wright is using QorIQ SOCs to meet the size, weight, and power demands of embedded electronics on the 3U Power Architecture VPX3-131 and VPX3-133 SBCs. This white paper will illustrate why Power Architecture continues to be an excellent choice for use in small form factor embedded applications.

A whitepaper on ‘Four Keys to Securing Distributed Control Systems’ from RTI

At the core of critical infrastructure and industrial applications, control systems drive today’s power grid, hospital clinical environments, factories, vehicles, transportation systems and military operations. Because of their vital roles and the value of the information they exchange, these systems must be protected from both espionage and sabotage. Security, however, has become more challenging.

This white paper presents an overview of industrial security requirements and the new security extensions to the Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard. Implemented as plug-ins, the security extensions introduce authentication, confidentiality and access control while still satisfying demanding reliability and performance requirements.

News & Events

Mistral appoints new Chief Executive Officer

Mistral recently announced the appointment of Mujahid Alam as Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. Over the years, Mujahid has held various leadership positions at Mistral. He most recently served as the Senior Vice President of Mistral’s Defense Business Unit and has been instrumental in successfully driving innovation and growth.

In his current role, Mujahid will assume overall responsibility of leading all segments of Mistral’s business viz. Product Engineering Services, Defense and Homeland Security.

A&D Wind River Forum 2015

The annual one day A&D Wind River Forum was recently held in Bangalore on April 7th at The Oberoi. At the seminar, leading aerospace and defense industry experts covered key trends which influenced embedded software development, including creating end-to-end system-level security and working within the ARINC 653 definition and the DO-178B/C requirements.

The speakers at the forum included Alex Wilson and Dr. Paul Chen from Wind River

Northrop Grumman leverages Esterel SCADE for Black Hawk Cockpit Display System Development

Northrop Grumman Corporation is developing the next generation of Black Hawk helicopter cockpit display systems using ANSYS® SCADE Suite® and SCADE Display® to provide scalable, fully integrated avionics software for the upgrade of the UH-60L Black Hawk cockpit to the digitized UH-60V and to meet safety-critical avionics standards such as DO-178C.

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