Infowaves - April '11

From The CEOs Desk

Dear Customer,

FY11 has been a good financial year with Mistral recording a growth of over 45%. We thank each and every one of you for being a part of our growth. Having closed FY11 on a strong note, we are equally happy to inform you that we have started FY12 with a very healthy order book!

Over the last three months, we have reworked our organization structure by redefining our three domains into SBUs. With this change, we will be able to meet the needs of our customers more efficiently and serve them better. To aid this, we have also started the PMO - Project Management Office to ensure that a customer's needs are tracked and met,, from the day the order is received till the time that it is delivered and working at the customer's end. The PMO will work closely with the Sales and Delivery teams on all orders.

We have also increased our product portfolio and our offerings across SBUs based on the needs of customers and the trend in the market. The matrix below gives a quick overview of our new offerings in these domains:

Product Engineering

Defence Solutions

Homeland Security

	Telecom Services
	IV&V Services
	Custom Angstrom and Android offerings on various development platforms

	Open VPX Champ A8 DSP
	SCADE ARINC 661
	IV&V for Mil-Aero applications
	Radar processing & graphics display systems from Curtiss-Wright (Primagraphics)
	Software Defined Radio (SDR) solutions from PrismTech

	City Surveillance
	Dial-100 System
	Mass Transit Security

At Mistral, we believe that we are completely geared to take on new challenges head-on. We enter the new financial year with promising prospects. I once again thank our customers once again for the unwavering faith & support shown to us. Without you, Mistral would not be where it is today.

Sincerely,

Sanjay Virnave
CEO



FEATURED PRODUCTS
	Angstrom on CraneBoard
	Esterel SCADE ARINC 661 (Standard)
	OpenVPX – CHAMP – AV8
	Telecom Services


ARTICLES
	Digital Radar Receiver System
	Test Automation
	Addressing the Challenges of Lead-free Technology in Mil/Aero Electronics
	Android Froyo on AM/DM37x EVM


NEWS & EVENTS

	MC3S @ Mandala
	Mistral ties up with Prismtech


OTHERS

	Mistral Web Store

Featured Products

Angstrom on CraneBoard

The CraneBoard is a low-cost, open-source, four-layer hardware development platform based on the AM3517 Sitara™ ARM® Cortex™-A8 microprocessor from Texas Instruments.

Angstrom is an open-source Linux distribution for a variety of embedded devices. Mistral has brought up Angstrom on the CraneBoard and implemented features like multimedia, browsing etc. There is an open-source community for Angstrom distribution and Mistral has made available support for CraneBoard through this community.

Esterel SCADE ARINC 661 (Standard)

The SCADE ARINC 661 is a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) tool that provides companies with a means to define processes that will bring more independence and greater control when defining Cockpit Display Systems. The SCADE ARINC 661 Solutions helps airframers, CDS developers and UA developers to efficiently create and certify, up to DO-178B Level A, ARINC 661-compliant Cockpit Display Systems and User Applications. The SCADE ARINC 661 Solutions are built on top of the SCADE Suite and SCADE Display which are both used for developing UAs and CDS logic and graphics.

OpenVPX – CHAMP – AV8

Mistral is now offering the new CHAMP-AV8, Curtiss-Wright Controls’ first DSP engine to offer IDT's upcoming Gen2 PCIe-to-sRIO protocol conversion bridging semiconductor product bringing the performance and bandwidth advantages of sRIO switch fabrics to the 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i7 processor-based embedded computing platforms.

Available in a full range of air- and conduction-cooled configurations, the rugged CHAMP-AV8 combines the significantly improved floating-point performance of the latest Intel® Core™ i7 processors, with the substantial bandwidth and system-enabling features of the 6U OpenVPX™ form factor.

Telecom Services

Mistral offers product engineering services in the Telecom domain which include both hardware and software development. Mistral's Telecom team is capable of doing a complete end-to-end solution from 'concept-to-deployment'.

Mistral's Telecom team has many years of hardware, software and system development expertise in the entire Telecom application spectrum, ranging from customer premises side (Access and Aggregation Layer) to the core network equipment.

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News & Events

MC3S @ Mandala

The Khumbh Mela, a mass Hindu pilgrimage celebrated every 3 years, was organized on the banks of the river Narmada (at Mandla) on February 10th, 11th & 12th, 2011. The total number of the people that visited this mela was approximately 25 lakhs. In an event of this magnitude it is a real challenge to handle the logistics and the security of the people.

The MP Police Intelligence department assigned Mistral the task of electronic surveillance at the event. Mistral deployed its MC3S solution for 3 days with a 4-member crew and monitored the entire security from the Mobile Command & Control Room (MCCR). The police found the MCCR very helpful in assisting with crowd-control and in maintaining law-and-order, at the event.

Mistral ties up with Prismtech

Mistral has tied-up with PrismTech; a global leader in standards-based, performance-critical middleware and will now be offering their Software Defined Radio and Software Communications Architecture solutions to the Indian Defense market. These products and services help in rapid development of high performance, small form factor operating environments with higher productivity and quality, reduced time and expense for testing.

Primagraphics’ products include graphics and imaging technologies, video and sensor processing hardware, and software that can be readily engineered to provide vital components for a wide variety of systems.

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Articles

Digital Radar Receiver System – Case Study from Mistral Solutions

A space vehicles launch centre saw a demonstration of a Radar Receiver solution developed by Mistral and contracted Mistral to provide a custom solution to meet its requirements. The customer has installations of radars based on Mono-pulse technology where the back-end receivers and signal processing systems offer little or no dynamic computing capability. It was an automatic choice for the customer to narrow down on a Radar Processing System comprising of Digital Signal Processing hardware and Intermediate Frequency (IF) modules which were based on newer technology.

Mistral provided a solution that was built in a modular structure with a Software Development Environment that would ensure that the customer could focus on the application implementation rather than at the driver or the hardware abstraction layer. The system, based on VPX technology was modular in nature with a capability of being upgradable with advances in technology. COTS components were utilized in designing the system with the application being developed by the customer’s in-house team.

Test Automation – Article from Mistral Solutions

One of the inherent characteristics of Testing is the lack of time to execute the required tests. In a limited time all required test scenarios need to be executed so that defects are found before the delivery of the product. Test Automation is an important technique/method used to reduce the test execution cycle time. The IV&V Team at Mistral has successfully developed and deployed Test Automation solutions across projects in Automotive Infotainment and Lifestyle Electronics domains.

Addressing the Challenges of Lead-free Technology in Mil/Aero Electronics – Whitepaper from Curtiss Wright Controls

RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) and WEEE (Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment) have become familiar acronyms to anyone involved in electronics manufacturing. These are the European Union directives that ban the use of lead and five other substances in many electronics applications, thus initiating the world-wide lead-free movement that has resulted in other countries enacting similar legislation.

This whitepaper talks about understanding and addressing/mitigating lead-free impacts requires significant expenditures.

Android Froyo on AM/DM37x EVM – Video from Mistral Solutions

Mistral has brought up Android Froyo on the DM3730 EVM. The DM3730 EVM is based on TI’s Media Application Processor DM3730, a dual-core processor with ARM’s Cortex A8 Core and TI’s C64x DSP Core. Mistral has used the DM 3730’s capability to boot out of SD/MMC memory card by placing the entire Linux firmware and the Android application framework on a SD/MMC Card.

This video demonstrates some of the interesting features of Android Froyo such as 2D and 3D Graphics, including Live Wallpaper, and the multimedia capabilities of the platform.

Mistral has integrated its WL1271 daughter card providing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capability into DM3730 EVM running Android Froyo. There is a video demonstrating the browsing and Bluetooth capabilities of Android Froyo.

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MISTRAL WEB STORE

At Mistral we strive to improve the customer experience at every level. Our new web store takes the user through a user friendly and simplified process of buying products online. The web store features multiple direct payment options including online payment using credit cards.

To order now, visit the web store at:
www.mistralsolutions.com/webstore

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MISTRAL DEFENSE TEAM

For any issues or queries that you may have and to help serve you better, below are the contact details of the Defense SBU lead team.

Mujahid Alam	Supriya Vaishnavi	Nagesh Rangappan	Ramanan J V
Head – Defense SBU muju@mistralsolutions.com +91.80.30731300 +91.9845003215	Country Manager – Sales supriya@mistralsolutions.com +91.80.30731301 +91.9845196726	Senior Project Manager – Engineering nagesh@mistralsolutions.com +91.80.30731208 +91.9611103647	Assistant General Manager – System Engineering Design ramanan@mistralsolutions.com +91.80.30731123 +91.9845628781

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