Integrated Telemetry System: From Mistral

The Integrated Telemetry System from Mistral is developed for a power range of 1W to 2W telemetry application. The system houses signal conditioning and processing electronics for over 100 channels. The Integrated Telemetry system integrates multi-channel PCM encoder, 1W transmitter, Transmitter antenna and 30 sensors of different types.

Mistral has developed various rugged telemetry modules for flight/mission critical applications, along with various decoder software, for ground station data extractions.

CHAMP-FX4: From Curtiss–Wright

The CHAMP-FX is the flagship 6U product in Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions’ family of user-programmable Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA-based computing products, designed to meet the needs of challenging embedded high-performance digital signal and image processing applications. The 4th generation 6U FPGA card, the CHAMP-FX4 combines the dense processing resources of three large Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGAs with over 12 GB of memory resources, all on a rugged 6U OpenVPX™(VITA 65) form factor module.

The CHAMP-FX4 6U OpenVPX Virtex-7 FPGA Processor card complements this processing capability with vast amounts of backplane I/O bandwidth, exceeding 100 GB/s, directly connected to the FPGAs.

Combined Video Management and Secure Data Storage/ Removal System: From Curtiss – Wright

The Skyquest® VRD1 Video Management System (VMS) and Vortex™ Data Transport System (DTS) showcase an integrated solution for comprehensive control and display of video sensor data with support for secure, removable storage of that video. This solution is ideal for defense and aerospace system integrators whose applications require real-time viewing and recording of large amounts of high definition (HD) video data and require a method for storing and encrypting that data while being able to access it on-demand for post-mission analysis. It is designed for use in airborne surveillance, search and rescue, patrol applications.

Digital Signal Processing Line Replacement Unit (DLRU): Case study from Mistral Solutions

The Digital Signal Processing Line Replacement Unit (DLRU) is one of the sub-systems in an Aerostat, which provides resources for radar signal processing, data capturing, data recording with other radar control functions.

The Case Study highlights Mistral’s expertise in the architecture and design of a custom hybrid system that supports two industry standard bus architectures VME and VPX, to meet the requirements of input /output signals, communication links, processing capability and high-speed data transfer capability.

Five Budget- Busting Cost Drivers that Threaten Sensor Processing System Design: Technical article
from Curtiss - Wright

Recent advances in open architecture standards and the rise in performance and inter-connectivity found in the latest generations of rugged COTS products have made designing very high performance, scalable embedded Sensor Processing systems for defense and aerospace applications much easier, cost-effective and flexible. However, experience has revealed a number of unique hurdles, which designers of the complex High
Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) systems used for demanding sensor processing applications,
need to fully understand.

This Technical Article highlights the five most common “traps” that can increase design risk, drive cost overruns and delay schedules.

Embedded Device Security in The New Connected Era: White Paper from Wind River Systems

Rapid growth in the intelligence and interconnectedness of embedded devices is accompanied by an upward
spiral in security threats. Attacks on these devices are being perpetrated by a new breed of hackers supported
by organized crime, nation states, and terrorist organizations. Device developers must respond by taking a more holistic approach to device security-one that considers security issues at every layer of the development stack-from silicon to virtualization to the operating system, the network and communication stacks, and the application layer.

This white paper discusses the key considerations in delivering an end-to-end platform approach to device security and provides solid advice that can help cut development time frames and costs, mitigate overall security risks, and transform security from a threat into an opportunity for competitive advantage.

SCADE Public Training Program

Mistral Solutions and Esterel Technologies recently conducted a Free SCADE Training Program in Bangalore. The Training Program included ‘SCADE Display Basic Training’ and ‘SCADE Suite Basic Training. The SCADE Suite is a model based development environment for critical software. SCADE Suite is the only integrated design environment for critical applications spanning requirements management, model model-based design, simulation, verification, Qualifiable /certified code generation, and interoperability with other development tools and platforms.

The SCADE training program had been designed to rapidly elevate user’s proficiency by exposing them to a balanced mixture of theory and lab exercises.

Xilinx Aerospace and Defense Seminar

Mistral had recently been invited as an Alliance Member at the Xilinx Aerospace and Defense Seminar which was organized in Bangalore and Hyderabad. With several keynote and expert speakers from Xilinx coming in from North America and Europe, the seminar was informative and was attended by customers from several DRDO labs, PSUs and other allied organizations. The Seminar was a great platform to showcase Mistral’s expertise around FPGA based solutions which include end-to-end solutions for logic design, Hardware Software co-design, DSP Algorithm on FPGA and more. The products showcased at the seminar include Telemetry Modules, Integrated Telemetry System, Digital Line Replacement Unit and Multi Channel Data Acquisition system. .