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Dear Customer,

Welcome to another issue of Infowaves. Mistral was recently conferred with the prestigious Defence Technology Absorption Award from DRDO for our contribution to India's AEW&C program which included the design and development of several sub-systems like the RADAR Processing Unit, DF System and Antenna Control Unit. We are honored to receive this award and thankful to DRDO for giving us an opportunity to be a part of the prestigious AEW&C Program. Mistral has also been recognized as a Govt. approved R&D organization, by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. This will help us support the DRDO and Defense Labs in their upcoming endeavors.

In this edition of Infowaves, we bring to you another product from Curtiss-Wright’s, the New VPX3-152 3U VPX SBC, the most recent development in the evolution of COTS rugged high-performance, SBCs designed specifically for Safety Certifiable and non-certifiable applications. Also featured is Mistral’s Nano SoM, a small form factor i.MX6 based System on Module providing very high processing power.

In our constant endeavor to introduce to you latest cutting-edge technologies and solutions, we have included white papers on ‘Scalable, High-Fidelity 360-Degree Situational Awareness Support System’ from Curtiss-Wright and ‘Building the Connectivity Architecture for the Industrial Internet of Things’ from RTI, along with a case study by Mistral on our Build-to-Print capability.

Please feel free to write to us with your feedback or suggestions on the content in this newsletter and the upcoming ones.

Regards,

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Mujahid Alam

New Products

Small Form Factor i.MX6 Nano SOM From Mistral

The i.MX6 Nano SOM from Mistral is a small form factor System on Module providing very high processing power. The SOM is built around the powerful 800MHz i.MX6 Dual/Quad Core, ARM Cortex A9 SoC from Freescale that can clock to a maximum frequency of 1.2 GHz.

The Nano SOM Board is designed using a micro-BGA (0.4mm Pitch 12mm x 12mm) i.MX6 Dual/ Quad SoC using PoP (Package on Package) memory assembly to ensure compact package. With a PCB size of just 44 mm X 26 mm, this is one of the smallest SOM’s 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. For mil-aero customers, the i.MX6 nano SOM with the 2D/3D GPU provides an efficient power profile architecture that is ideal for very low-power display systems that require sophisticated graphics, such next generation panel-mount and portable avionics devices, cabin control and instrumentation heads-up displays.Read More..

VPX3 – 152: DO-254 Safety Certifiable SBC From Curtiss-Wright

Curtiss-Wright Defence Solutions’ VPX3-152 is the latest OpenVPX™ compliant 3U processor that combines the performance and the advanced I/O capabilities of the NXP® Power Architecture® QorIQ™ Quad-core AltiVec™ enabled T2080 processor with an extensive I/O complement to provide DO-254 Safety Certifiable single board computer (SBC) processor. Designed for space constrained applications, the VPX3-152 represents the latest step in the evolution of COTS rugged high-performance, SBCs designed specifically for Safety Certifiable and non-certifiable applications. Read More..

Power Architecture Based Designs

Power Architectures follow a Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) technology largely based on IBM’s POWER instruction set architecture, and retains a high level of compatibility with it. Since 2006, the governing body for power architecture has been power.org, comprising over 20 companies and organizations. This architecture was built for high-performance, embedded and super scalar low-cost processor.

Power Architecture-based processors produce cost effective, power efficient, high performance data compute solutions, making them ideal choices for real-time SWaP-constrained embedded applications.

Mistral’s design services for Power Architectures includes, Hardware Design, Software Development, BSP & Drivers, Firmware, Embedded Applications, Design for Manufacturability, Testing & Validation, Production Support Services and Product Life-cycle Support. Read More..

Articles

Scalable, High-Fidelity 360-Degrees, Situational Awareness Support System – Whitepaper from Curtiss-Wright

Current local Situational Awareness (SA) solutions are built with multiple cameras deployed at a variety of angles to provide multiple visual feeds. These feeds are combined with other sensor information and presented to operators on single or multiple displays. This process, commonly mechanical, does not necessarily present a complete 360-degrees view of an operating environment and may induce a significant latency between what actually transpires in the reality and what operators see through their displays. To provide an accurate, fully stitched, 360-degrees view of the surroundings, an effective solution is needed. : one that fuses digital feeds in software and processes them for delivery with minimal latency in hardware. The ideal solution should be flexible enough to be configured and customized to the unique needs of each distinct platform and to the operators and personnel on board that platform. This paper presents the key requirements for a SA solution that delivers a high-fidelity, real-time, 360-degrees view of an operating environment. It also introduces a next-generation 360-degrees SA solution developed by Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions and Mistral that is optimized for delivery of a fully-stitched view of the immediate surroundings of any platform.Read More..

Connectivity Architecture for the Industrial Internet of Things – Whitepaper from RTI

The Industrial IoT introduces new requirements for the velocity, variety, and volume of information exchange. Connectivity must be real-time and secure, and it must work over mobile, disconnected, and intermittent links. It must efficiently scale to handle any number of things, each of which may have its own unique requirements for information exchange, such as streaming updates, state replication, alarms, configuration settings, initialization, and commanded intents. These requirements are above and beyond the requirements commonly handled by conventional connectivity solutions designed for static networks.

This white paper describes a connectivity architecture model for the Industrial IoT and shows how the Data Distribution Service (DDS) messaging standard can address the unique requirements of the Industrial IoT. Concepts will be illustrated using a scalable Industrial IoT application architecture that shares real-time data between mobile devices and the cloud and provides browser-based access from thin clients. The optimal use of web-sockets technology is also described in the architecture overview.Read More..

Build-to-Print: DMV 186

The VME-186 VME Single Board Computer from Curtiss-Wright is based on NXP's high-performance Power Architecture QorIQ P4080 SOC multicore processor. With four or eight Power Architecture cores running up to 1.5 GHz, and up to 8 GB of high bandwidth DDR3 SDRAM, the VME-186 SBC provides high-performance processing and a variety I/O interfaces to satisfy the most demanding requirements of embedded computing. The VME-186 SBC's I/O interfaces include EIA-232, EIA- 422/485 serial, USB, Gigabit Ethernet, MIL-STD-1553, SATA, TTL and differential and discrete I/O. The VME-186 includes two mezzanine sites capable of supporting an IEEE 1386 PMC or VITA 42.3 XMC module with 64-bits of Pn4 I/O backplane connectors, as per VITA 35.

This case study showcases Mistral’s capabilities to provide Build-to-print services to fabricate, test, qualify and deliver designs provided by third party OEMs.Read More..

News & Events

Mistral conferred with the Prestigious Defence Technology Absorption Award from DRDO

We are proud to announce that Mistral was conferred with the prestigious Defence Technology Absorption Award from DRDO for our contribution to India's AEW&Cs program. Mistral was involved in the design and development of several sub-systems for the AEW&C Program that included the RADAR Processing Unit, DF System and Antenna Control Unit. Mujahid Alam, CEO, Mistral Solutions, was presented with the award by the Hon'ble Defense & Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley at a formal ceremony at DRDO Bhawan, in New Delhi on 24th March 2017, Friday.Read More..

Mistral now a Govt. approved R&D organization, recognized by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.

Mistral has been a leader in Defense Electronics for the past few years engineering customized sub-systems for various Defense R&D Organizations (DRDO) in India and designing hi-tech embedded products for global companies. Our defense sub-systems have been incorporated in various defense applications like RADAR, SONAR, Electronic Warfare and Avionics. In the coming years our focus with be on

  • Make in India initiative to address the domestic defense electronics market
  • Participate in Defense Offset opportunities
  • Capitalize on the 40+ existing defense electronics design win that we have acquired over the years in India
  • Focus on working with global companies helping them realize futuristic, next-generation products

Mistral has defined process for R&D initiatives where we encourage employees towards identifying entrepreneurship opportunity and help them nurture it. Mistral has recently been recognized as a Govt. approved R&D organization, by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.

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