New Products

GaN based S-Band TRMM (Transmit Receive Multi Module) from Mistral

The Transmit Receive Multi Module (TRMM) from Mistral are compact T/R Modules designed for Phased Array RADARS operating in S-Band. Based on GaN (Gallium Nitride) technology, the TRMM delivers high efficiency in a compact size with a 100W Peak Transmit Power Capability per channel. The Transmitters have a unique calibration feature, which biases the Power Amplifier to optimum point at all ambient temperatures in the operating range. It also, has dynamic output power control which is carried out by measuring the RF power output and altering Power Amplifier DC supply resulting in maximum efficiency.

The digital control and GUI interface to the unit is implemented on a Virtex-4 series FPGA housed on a separate controller card. The card also has a Health Monitoring section which monitors the key parameters of the unit. The SRAM and FLASH are used to store and retrieve TRMM calibration and collimation data. The unit is designed to be conduction cooled. It interfaces with a liquid cooled cold plate which is maintained at 20⁰C±10⁰C under all ambient temperature conditions.

The Transmit Receive Module ideally find their application in Surveillance Radars, Weather Radars and Satellite Communications. The TRMM can replace radars with mechanically steered antenna.Read More..

New GNAT Pro Product Lines from Adacore

In response to evolving requirements from existing customers and increasing interest in Ada from traditionally C-based application domains, AdaCore launched three product lines for its GNAT Pro technology - GNAT Pro Enterprise, GNAT Pro Assurance & GNAT Pro Developer.

GNAT Pro Enterprise, a full-featured environment supporting industrial-grade development of mission-critical software; GNAT Pro Assurance, an extension of GNAT Pro Enterprise oriented towards users with software certification requirements or the need for a stable development platform that is maintained (with repairs to critical issues) over the entire duration of a long-lived project; and GNAT Pro Developer, geared towards new users of Ada who want to take advantage of the language’s software engineering support and early error detection. All three GNAT Pro products include SPARK Discovery, a formal methods tool suite that allows developers to demonstrate, with mathematical rigor, program properties ranging from data flow security to absence of run-time errors. Read More..

Hyper-length FFT-IP Core from Mistral

The Fast Fourier Transform IP Core (FFT) from Mistral allows implementation of very long transforms on an FPGA using external RAM. It supports run time programmable transform lengths from 256 to 1M (powers-of-2) points. The IP is designed for Run time Programmability and Optimal Resource Utilization. FFT-IP Core uses the Divide-and-Conquer approach for FFT computation. This approach expresses an FFT of length N as a product of 2 integers, L x M. The L and M point FFTs are computed using a pipelined FFT block. The various blocks of FFT-IP Core includes a Controller, Pipeline FFT, Twiddle Generator, Complex Multiplier, Re-order blocks and Arbiter. Major applications include Radar signal processing (Pulse Compression, Doppler processing, etc) and Spectral analysis.Read More..

Articles

Automotive Radar – The Eyes & Ears of ADAS, Article from Mistral Solutions

The article talks about the modern day automotive radars and their crucial role in aiding ADAS, advantage over conventional technologies, Radar design, data analysis and communication with various vehicle electronics sub-systems.

“For many years the automotive industry is working on systems called Advance Driver Assistant Systems [ADAS] to aid the driver in avoiding such accidents. Currently, there are a set of ADAS in use by Automobile Manufacturers to ensure the safety of Drivers, passengers and pedestrians. These are systems for Blind Spot Detection, Forward Collision Warning, Lane Departure Collision Warning, the rear traffic alert, Adaptive Cruise control and Parking Assistance.

Today, all major silicon companies are researching on ADAS systems and the developments are quite promising. Infineon, ST Microelectronics and Texas Instruments have already developed Radar chipsets that meet automotive requirements of cost effectiveness, Low power consumption and small form factor. In automotive applications, radar range requirement is as low as few hundred meters enabling the system to operate in low power”.Read More..

Deploying HPC Tools into Embedded Software Development to Save Time and Money, White Paper from Curtiss Wright

Estimating and managing a software development effort is a combination of art and science. The cost and schedule estimates of the program are based on the predicted lines of code, and the number of lines of code that can be designed, coded and debugged in a mythical man-month. For a project to be successful, it must be on time, within budget, and deliver the features and functions as promised. The choice of tools for software development becomes more important in today’s multi-processor environment. For years in our embedded defense community, developers have used VxWorks® and its associated tools, and vendors of embedded defense hardware had also started making their own tools. These tools had varying levels of success with the single core processors, and of course, the traditional “printf” was and continues to be a debugging favorite of most developers.

With the new generation of multi-core CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs as building blocks, embedded defense systems have become even more complicated to develop and debug. To take advantage of these embedded “supercomputers”, the code must be executed efficiently in parallel across many nodes.

Some vendors and customers in the embedded defense space have tried to develop parallel tools, which they have found is not a trivial exercise. With this paper, we explore the potential role of High Performance Computing (HPC) tools in the embedded market, speeding delivery time while decreasing costs. We will look at the power of combining HPC tools such as cluster managers, debugger and profilers, and mapping solutions.Read More..

News & Events

Mistral at ICONS-2018

Mistral showcased its products and solutions for naval and underwater surveillance at ICONS 2018 - International Conference on Sonar Systems & Sensors, held at Kochi Kerala, from 22-24 February 2018. The International Conference was organized by NPOL, Kochi, a premier R&D establishment of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO). Mistral's featured solutions included Sonar signal processing solutions, Hi-Speed Data Acquisition Systems, Transmit-Receive modules and more.

Mistral Solutions merges with AXISCADES

Mistral Solutions announced its merger with AXISCADES - a leading Product Engineering Solutions Company based in Bangalore. The merger with AXISCADES will be completed in a phased manner and will add significantly to Mistral’s efforts to drive in large business opportunities from India and global OEMs, taking advantage of several exciting Make-in-India opportunities. The merger will create a more comprehensive infrastructure for both Mistral and AXISCADES offering complementary capabilities to global customers. AXISCADES caters to the futuristic needs of Aerospace, Defense, Heavy Engineering, Automotive and Industrial Production sectors. The operational structure and the management of the organisation will remain the same and the current founders and management team will continue to run the operations.