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Industrial IoT Kit from Mistral

For customers looking at easily connecting their industrial solution to the cloud, Mistral offers Industrial IoT Kit, that integrates the Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT SDK on TI’s Sitara™ AM437x platform. This kit will enable developers to use the AWS IoT functionality from connected devices and from mobile and web applications.

The Industrial IoT Kit consists of a small footprint, high performance AM437x based hardware enabled with the AWS IoT. Mistral’s Industrial IoT Kit based on AM437x SoC from TI features extensive integration such as quad core PRU-ICSS, PowerVR SGX 3D acceleration core, dual camera, QSPI-NOR, up to 512KB on-chip memory, Dual ADC and an easily extendable architecture. The Kit also has interfaces for LCD, Camera Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, ADC, PWM, McASP etc., which can help developers build industrial application devices in a record span of time. Read More..

IoT Services from Mistral

With a host of sensors and M2M (machine to machine) connectivity, the IoT is expected to drive everything: from remote patient monitoring and asset tracking to enabling smart homes and redefining communication in power, oil, gas, utilities industries. By 2020, more than 5 billion people will be connected, not to mention 50 billion devices and the IPv6’s huge increase in address space is an important factor in the development of the Internet of Things.

With more than 18 years of experience in embedded product design and sensor based data acquisition; Mistral is a trusted partner to help you design and implement your devices to realize your IoT strategy. Read More..

Nano SOM (System on Module)

The Nano SOM from Mistral is a small form factor System on Module providing very high processing power and built around the powerful 800MHz i.MX6 Quad Core, ARM Cortex A9 SoC from Freescale.

The Nano SOM Board is designed using a micro-BGA (0.4mm Pitch 12mm x 12mm) i.MX6 Quad SoC using PoP (Package on Package) memory assembly to ensure compact package. With a PCB size of 44mm X 26mm and weighing just 7 gms, this is one of the smallest SOMs available in the market currently.

Given its small form factor, the Nano SOM is ideal for designing products like bio-metric devices, wearable computers, medical electronic devices, security/personal cameras and other smart gadgets requiring small package and high processing power. Read More..

Articles

Industrial 4.0 - Internet of Things (IoT) and the Connected Enterprise: An Infographic

Here's an interesting Infographic from Mistral explaining the latest Industrial Revolution trend – Industrial 4.0 - Internet of Things (IoT) and the Connected Enterprise.

Understanding concept of PoP (Package-on-Package) technology: Article

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, users are demanding smaller and thinner gadgets.

This has in turn lead to designs that increasingly need efficient memory architectures such as high memory capacity and high performance in small area and multiple bus issues that call for high scalability. The designs demand compact and more densely populated electronic assemblies.

Package on package (PoP) is one of the techniques to address the demand for compact assemblies. PoP is a stacked packaging method to have two ball grid array (BGA) packages mounted one above the other with a standard interface to route signals between them. The most widely used integration components for stacking are the processor and memory. The combination of RAM & Flash memory in single chip BGA solution is also available, which allows a much higher component density on smaller form factor PCB design through the PoP assembly. Read More..

Designing a Product on Module (PoM) for Health and Wellness Applications: Case Study

This case study showcases Mistral’s capability to design and develop a small form factor, powerful evaluation platform with a host of sensors to detect and monitor vital health statistics like temperature, blood pressure, heart rate/ blood oxygen level and footstep counts.

Mistral designed a small footprint, battery operated Product on Module (PoM) built around an ARM Cortex M3 based MCU consisting of a base board and a pluggable application module with I/O features like I2C, SPI and Op-Amp connections which were interfaced to sensors. A pluggable NFC card was included to establish authenticated auto Bluetooth connection with an NFC capable tablet/phone. Mistral designed the complete solution consisting of hardware, firmware, integrated sensors and the android application for phones and tablets. Read More..