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Fundamentals of Printed Circuit Board
Written by: Mistral Solutions
We live in a world driven by technology and use them in nearly every aspect of our daily lives. We tend to depend on smart electronic devices to make our lives easier, organised and better connected. |
Top trends for the Embedded Device market in 2021
Written by: Dan Noal, VP – North America, Mistral Solutions
In its 2021 strategic technology trends, Gartner identified 3 major categories to have the biggest impacts: People Centricity; Location Independence and Resilient Delivery. The embedded device segment |
Importance of Drones and UAVs in the Current Pandemic Situation
Written by: Mistral Solutions
Drones, also known as UAVs, are unmanned aircraft with no on-board crew or passengers in it. They are pilotless vehicles that can either be remotely controlled or are pre-programmed for a specific mis |
Application Development for Embedded Systems
Written by: Mistral Solutions
Embedded systems are growing smarter and intelligent across embedded domains. Thanks to the remarkable advancements in the field of electronics, especially wireless communication technologies, SoCs, M |
IoT Testing Process for Building Robust IoT System
Written by: Mistral Solutions
Internet of things (IoT) as we all know is an ecosystem of systems, sensors and devices which are connected over a network enabling communication among them. IoT devices not only include computers, la |
SOC (Silicon) Validation Platform Development
Written by: Mistral Solutions
Introduction System on Chip (SoC) is becoming more and more complex in terms of functional capabilities, computing power, mutli-interface support and performance. SoC manufacturers strive to bring |
In-flight Entertainment Solutions – Evolution and Emerging Trends
Written by: Nathasha S Pissey
What makes passengers air travel interesting? Window seats? Delicious meals and snacks? Or a full-fledged in-flight entertainment solutions? Today’s generation of passengers craves for a great ex |
Trends in Medical Electronics
Written by: Mistral Solutions
As technology evolves, OEMs are widely exploring the scope of adopting the latest technology trends to Medical Electronics. Trends such as Artificial Intelligence, Augmented/Extended Reality, Internet |
An Overview of Medical Electronics
Written by: Mistral Solutions
In today’s world, technology plays an important role in every industry as well as in our personal lives. Needless to say, medical and healthcare is one of the domains where technology is playing a c |
Recent Trends on RF Data Converters
Written by: Rajeev Ramachandra, CTO and Co-founder, Mistral
Overview Analog to Digital Converters (ADC) and Digital to Analog Converters (DAC) act as a bridge between the Analog and Digital Domain. For years, these devices have remained the interface betwee |
ARM Technologies and its significance in Embedded Domain
Written by: Nathasha S Pissey
The ARM architecture, also known as the big.Little design architecture, is a heterogeneous multi-processing system that uses more than one processor core and offers multiple software architectures lik |
Automotive and Infotainment – An Overview
Written by: Nathasha S Pissey
Over the last decade, there has been a massive growth in the field of “Automotive and Infotainment” which will pursue between 2019 to 2028. According to MarketsandMarkets, the automotive infotai |
Android HAL – Recent Developments and Security Enhancements
Written by: By Keerthi, Project Leader - Software Design
This blog talks about the recent Android HAL Development and the best practices to keep in mind while building a secure Android HAL and other Development applications. Overtime, we have been witnes |
Internet of Things and the Cloud Ecosystem
Written by: Mistral Solutions
Internet of Things or IoT refers to an ecosystem of devices/things that are connected to each other over a network enabling communication among them. These connected devices are equipped with UIDs (Un |
Development Platforms – Why we need them?
Written by: Mistral Solutions
By using product development platforms, developers can ensure that their hardware and software development process runs in parallel, thereby accelerating their product development. Every time a si |
Electronics based Assistive Technology
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The recent advancements in technology and the plethora of electronic devices that have emerged over the recent years have transformed the lives of common man. One of the most notable and humbling impa |
Industry 4.0 and its Implications in Process Industry
Written by: Mistral Solutions
Industry 4.0 has many synonyms. It is referred to as Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Digital Revolution, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It doesn’t matter how we define it; Industry 4. |
Wearable Electronics Application Development – Challenges and Risks
Written by: Mistral Solutions
Wearable Electronics are smart gadgets and/or accessories with specific functionalities and applications. Wearable Technologies focus on the efficient and brilliant use of internet, various sensors, t |
An Insight into Product Engineering Services
Written by: Mistral Solutions
Product Engineering Services involve a wide range of programming tools, processors / microprocessors, memory devices, interfaces, operating systems, UI Tools to design and engineer a product. Apart |
Machine Learning Solutions – FPGA Based Accelerated AI
Written by: Rajesh Chakkingal, Associate Vice President - VLSI
Digital signal processing with field programmable gate arrays has gained relevance in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) domain and have an advantage when compared to GPUs and ASICs. Artificial intel |
Anticipating 2019’s game-changing technologies!
Written by: Srinivas Panapakam, VP - Sales & Business Development (PES)
As we welcome a brand new year, I am thinking and looking forward to the top tech trends of 2019. Of course, there are lot of new things coming up like blockchain and quantum computing, but I am inter |
Energize your product with the 820 Nano SOM!
Written by: Srinivas Panapakam
Sometime back I had written how the Augmented Reality / Glasses have moved beyond just Hardware and into a combination of many things (www.mistralsolutions.com/augmented-reality-virtual-reality-mixed- |
Augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality… What is the reality?
Written by: Srinivas Panapakam
It’s been an interesting decade and I remember clearly that it was sometime in 2007 when we actually started working on head-mounted glasses project for one of our customers. The customer had an int |
System Performance Optimization for Embedded Devices
Written by: Sachidananda Karanth
Industrial automation systems typically require data acquisition and processing in real-time. These systems could range from a simple lighting control system to a large distributed control system comp |
Top Technology Trends for 2016
Written by: Mistral Solutions Pvt.Ltd
1) Wearable Electronics In 2015, Wearable devices garnered the most attention from multi-functional smart watches with brands like Samsung, Motorola and Apple fighting for a place on the Wearable c |
Understanding the concept of PoP (Package-on-Package) technology
Written by: S Vijay Bharat
Over the past decade the embedded world has undergone tremendous change. With the advent of mobile phones, smart lifestyle gadget like wearables, health and wellness devices, on the consumer front, us |
Challenges for Mass Adoption of IoT – Security and Standardization
Written by: Avinash Babu
The world of Internet of Things (IoT) fascinates me for its potential to impact everyday life by extracting the immense power hidden within data and inference based actions. IoT infrastructure is a c |
The Visionary of our times
Written by: Anees Ahmed
There are a few people I consider visionaries of their times. In the 15th century, we had Leonardo da Vinci. He was centuries ahead of his times and unmatched in his abilities, talent and knowledge of |
Wearables Everywhere
Written by: Sachidananda K
In 2014, wearable electronics technology saw an enormous increase in popularity with Internet searches for related terms increasing ten-fold and over $1 billion invested towards development in this do |
Silicon to product – New trends in consumer electronics product design and productization
Written by: Srinivas Panapakam
Product design and development has come a long way from traditional product development. Earlier, development involved a semi-conductor company building a reference design around a brought out silicon |
IOT enabling Health and Wellness Device Designs
Written by: Srinivas Panapakam
The Internet of Things is not just a futuristic vision of a better connected world; it is already here, giving healthcare providers an unprecedented level of technology inter-operability and flexibili |
Sensors and its impact on the ‘Internet of Things’
Written by: Sachidananda Karanth
Sensors form the edge of the electronics ecosystem, in which the physical world interacts with computers, thereby providing a rich array of data to be available at a click of a mouse. We have had sens |
Smart Homes of the Future
Written by: Vijay Bharath
From smart phones to smart cars, technology is transforming virtually every aspect of our busy lives. Technologies not only make life easier while on the go, but new options are quickly simplifying li |
A peep into the world of Wearable Electronics
Written by: Srinivas Panapakam
The market for the wearable electronics devices is estimated to reach $19 billion in the next 5 years. We are already seeing the biggies like Google and Samsung launching several innovative products i |
Connected Car Technologies
Written by: Ravindra B.S
Introduction Today’s automotive electronics solutions are going through a major transition in terms of technology consolidation and hence we come across many new feature additions and integration |
SDI Video Streaming – Design Challenges
Written by: Suresha N S, Harshith Kasyap and Alagappan Ramanathan
Serial digital interface (SDI) is a standard for high quality lossless digital video transmission. The greatest advantage of SDI video streaming technology is being able to transfer high- definitio |
Power Management – Hardware Software Co-design
Written by: Avinash Babu
The performance of embedded devices is highly dependent on adequate power management. Embedded devices are being packed with more and more features while the power budget has not changed much. This wa |
Virtualization and the smartphone
Written by: Samyeer Metrani
Virtualization is a term that has taken some time to internalize for me. My introduction with virtualization was as far back as 1992 when Windows 3.1 introduced the 386 enhanced mode, and the ability |
Power optimization on feature–rich devices
Written by: Avinash Babu
In general, power optimization seems opposed to product feature enhancement. Power optimization on feature–rich devices is built with high degree of focus on optimizing power consumption based on th |
A Quick Glimpse at the Automotive Linux Summit 2012
Written by: M R Raghavan
A Quick Glimpse at the Automotive Linux Summit 2012 September 19 and 20, 2012 at HERITAGE MOTOR CENTRE, GAYDON, WARWICK, UNITED KINGDOM The Linux Foundation had organized the Automotive Linux Su |
Connectivity and the new connected devices paradigm
Written by: Samyeer Metrani
Till recently, connectivity used to be about being able to connect to the internet. Whether it was from a notebook, a tablet or a smartphone it was about being connected to the rest of the world. Over |
The future is bright for embedded systems and technologies!!
Written by: Krishnakumar M
The tech world is going through unprecedented changes in the last few quarters. Apple and Samsung have taken the mobile phone market leadership to a different level where both of them have surged forw |