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Dear Customer,

Welcome to another issue of Infowaves. The highlight this quarter is induction of the indigenously designed AEW&C into the Indian Air Force (IAF) during the Aero Show 2017. This aerial platform is meant to be a force multiplier that will guide the IAF's fighter aircraft during combat. Recently, DRDO also showcased the Medium Powered RADAR – Arudhra at the 68th Republic Day parade. Mistral is proud to have been a part of both these projects and we look forward to working with the DRDO, Indian Defense and other system integrators on more such projects.

In this newsletter, we introduce Curtiss-Wright's VPX3-150 3U VPX SBC, a cost effective COTS alternative to custom developed DO-254/DO-178 safety certifiable solutions. Also featured are Mistral's offering in RF designs and designing electronics for Drones/UAVs for a wide range of applications.

Through this newsletter, we endeavor to introduce to you latest cutting-edge technologies and solutions that are gaining interest and popularity across the globe. We have included white papers on 'Versatile Power Supply with XMC Sites Enables 3U VPX Architectures' from Curtiss-Wright and 'Deterministic Modeling and Qualifiable Ada Code Generation for Safety-Critical Project' from ANSYS, I hope you will find these useful.

Reliability of a system is highly dependent on its engineering design. A very small change to the design or a component can cause profound changes in reliability. Read about Designing for Reliability in an article by Sridhar TS, Senior Project Manager – Hardware Design from Mistral.

We look forward to your feedback or suggestions.

Sincerely,

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Mujahid Alam

New Products

VPX3-150 3U VPX SBC with NXP Power Architecture P5020 Processor from Curtiss-Wright

The VPX3-150 is targeted at avionics applications where a cost effective COTS alternative to custom developed DO-254/DO-178 safety certifiable solutions can offer a competitive advantage for integrators. Designed for applications requiring a DO-254/DO-178 safety certifiable solution, the VPX3-150 represents the latest step in the evolution of rugged, highly integrated small form factor COTS modules.

The VPX3-150 combines the performance and the advanced I/O capabilities of NXP’s P5020 processor with an extensive I/O complement to provide a highly capable processing platform for a wide range of embedded military/ aerospace applications. The VPX3-150 is designed to occupy a 1.0” slot as per VITA 65.Read More..

RF Designs from Mistral

Mistral has experience in a variety of RF designs for aerospace and defense applications. Our engineering team adopts a highly-disciplined development approach starting with a comprehensive requirement document followed by a feasibility study to reduce identified risks. This leads to circuit design, simulation, modeling and prototyping. A comprehensive test plan is developed and used to ensure that the resulting design meets the requirement specification.

Mistral can also combine RF designs with other board and system design services to provide complete end-to-end solutions for various defense and aerospace applications like RADAR, Electronics Warfare, Telemetry etc. Mistral has a well-equipped test and measurement infrastructure, which includes high-end spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, signal generators as well as tools for simulation and prototyping along with a strong eco-system to handle small and large volume production. Read More..

Drones and UAVs Designs from Mistral

Mistral offers bespoke design and development services for UAV/Drone Electronics for a wide range of applications. Drones have developed from just a radio-controlled aircraft into sophisticated, feature-rich systems that can perform a myriad of functions.

With a host of sensors and sophisticated architecture, drones are considered as robotic aircrafts and are being used to perform a number of missions which include surveillance, intelligence, early warning, military applications, search and rescue, law enforcement, photography & videography, gaming, communication and logistics among others. Real-time wireless HD streaming and control apps available on generic devices like tablets and mobiles, are one of the two key features that have led to the sudden spurt in drone based applications.

Mistral’s expert team of engineers have helped several customers realize their drone designs with the development of smart, compact and power efficient electronics systems and the related software for the same (BSP and Apps). Read More..

Articles

Versatile Power Supply with XMC Sites Enables 3U VPX Architectures – Whitepaper from Curtiss-Wright

Advanced technology is changing the face of modern embedded systems. Increased processing and functionality are bringing new capabilities and challenges to system design. The 6U VME open architecture systems of yesterday are migrating to VPX, with many of them transitioning to the reduced 3U VPX form factor. These same technology improvements have also made the capabilities and utility of the XMC mezzanines hosted on the VPX modules play an increasingly important function in these systems.

Customers are looking to architect systems using today’s technology to improve size, weight, and power (SWaP). They have requirements to increase I/O count to match the processing performance in systems. They need to augment the PCI Express (PCIe) interface with increased number of interconnects and flexible data exchanges across domains. Spare slots are required to extend system lifecycles. The 28V PSU3- THOR VPX can provide all these capabilities in a rugged power supply product enabling SWaP-efficient 3U VPX system solutions.

This white paper will explain the technology and applications advantages of the PSU3-THOR power supply shown in the block diagram. It will showcase a number of instances where the PCIe switched dual-embedded XMCs are an enabling technology for a variety of embedded applications.Read More..

Deterministic Modeling and Qualifiable Ada Code Generation for Safety-Critical Project – White Paper from Ansys

The ANSYS SCADE Suite provides a new approach to Ada code development that overcomes these challenges. SCADE Suite offers a deterministic modelling environment that prevents potential ambiguities by defining formal unambiguous semantics that avoid misinterpretations between systems architects and developers. The SCADE modeling environment provides formal data-flow and control-flow constructs. Hierarchy is supported via user-defined operators and hierarchical state machines. Most checks such as strong type-checking, namespace analysis, causality analysis, clock analysis and initialization analysis can be performed at the model level during design.

SCADE Life Cycle Requirement Management Gateway provides a complete and interactive solution to manage traceability links between high level requirements (HLRs) to low level requirements (LLRs) and from HLRs to test cases and procedures. This tool automates the process of validating that 100 percent of HLRs have been implemented and 100 percent of HLRs are covered by test cases and procedures.Read More..

Designing for Reliability – An Article by Mistral

In the engineering context, Reliability is the probability that a product will perform its required function under stated conditions, after a specified interval of time. The concept was first developed after numerous reliability issues cropped up in weapon systems during the World War II, and was consequently embraced by the electronics community.

TReliability is highly dependent on design engineering. A very small change to the design of a component can cause profound changes in reliability. Reliable functioning of a product is the key for its success in the market. The reliability of the product is especially important in Mission critical defense and embedded products. There are several methods of Reliability analysis and the following key analysis methods are briefed in this article: MTBF – Component Level Analysis, DFMEA – Block level Analysis. Fault Tree Analysis – System Level Analysis Read More..

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