Craneboard, from Mistral, is a hardware development platform that enables customers to develop general purpose computing and other applications based on the Sitara AM3517 ARM Cortex - A8 microprocessor device. Craneboard is a low cost, open source reference platform to help the developer community leverage the benefits of the AM3517 processor while leveraging a host of exciting peripherals.
This case study showcases Mistral's capability in providing a ZigBee technology based solution for a Universal Remote Controller. The product is now going into large volume production by the customer.
The AM37x EVM and/or DM37x EVM from Mistral is a highly integrated and easy-to-use development platform based on TI's AM/DM37x Sitara Microprocessor. Designed with a modular and extendable architecture, the EVM helps developers leverage the benefits of the powerful AM/DM37x processor comprising of the advanced Superscalar ARM® Cortex™-A8 RISC core with NEON co-processing.
The Nano SOM from Mistral is an extremely small footprint (44mm * 26 mm) System-on-Module; weighing just 7gms; which can be used directly in your end product design.
Application Note on Building a Smart Energy Gateway solutionMistral Solutions
Energy gateways connect smart devices in the home and allow control and monitoring of energy usage. They form the center of a home area network. When designing an energy gateway, considerations include interfaces for smart meters and standards-based communication, as well as a user interface. An energy gateway solution can be built using the AM437x system-on-module, which provides processing power, wireless connectivity, interfaces, and software support for building a smart energy gateway and home automation system.
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 data transfer capability.
Craneboard, from Mistral, is a hardware development platform that enables customers to develop general purpose computing and other applications based on the Sitara AM3517 ARM Cortex - A8 microprocessor device. Craneboard is a low cost, open source reference platform to help the developer community leverage the benefits of the AM3517 processor while leveraging a host of exciting peripherals.
This case study showcases Mistral's capability in providing a ZigBee technology based solution for a Universal Remote Controller. The product is now going into large volume production by the customer.
The AM37x EVM and/or DM37x EVM from Mistral is a highly integrated and easy-to-use development platform based on TI's AM/DM37x Sitara Microprocessor. Designed with a modular and extendable architecture, the EVM helps developers leverage the benefits of the powerful AM/DM37x processor comprising of the advanced Superscalar ARM® Cortex™-A8 RISC core with NEON co-processing.
The Nano SOM from Mistral is an extremely small footprint (44mm * 26 mm) System-on-Module; weighing just 7gms; which can be used directly in your end product design.
Application Note on Building a Smart Energy Gateway solutionMistral Solutions
Energy gateways connect smart devices in the home and allow control and monitoring of energy usage. They form the center of a home area network. When designing an energy gateway, considerations include interfaces for smart meters and standards-based communication, as well as a user interface. An energy gateway solution can be built using the AM437x system-on-module, which provides processing power, wireless connectivity, interfaces, and software support for building a smart energy gateway and home automation system.
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 data transfer capability.
This paper proposes an algorithm to determine the top and bottom field order in interlaced video when that information is not provided by the video decoder. Knowing the field order is important for de-interlacing algorithms to reconstruct frames with minimal artifacts. The algorithm works by interpolating lines in assumed top fields and comparing pixel values to bottom lines, calculating confidence values for each field assumption. It then determines if the field order is correct or swapped based on the confidence values. The algorithm needs to run periodically to re-check the field order if the video input is disconnected and reconnected.
The RZ/G1E SMARC module developed by Mistral is a small form-factor, high performance module built around the 1GHz Renesas RZ/G1E dual ARM Cortex-A7
microprocessor (MPU).
The AM437x Application Board is a four layer Add-on Module for the AM437x PoM from Mistral built for the ARM-Cortex A9 Sitara AM437x SoC fromTexas Instruments.
In this article, we will demonstrate how a sample thermal printer can be interfaced with Mistral’s AM437x Product on Module. The AM437x POM is an ideal platform to build Point-of-Sale Terminal Devices with Thermal Printing Capability.
IoT based Industrial Gateway (IoT-SDK) built around Sitara™ AM437x processors...Mistral Solutions
Internet of Things (IoT) is a lot more than just connected devices and seamless communication. The emerging IoT is having a sweeping effect on the way goods are produced, triggering another industrial revolution – Industry 4.0.
Designing a Product on Module for Health and Wellness ApplicationsMistral Solutions
Mistral designed a small, battery-operated product on module (PoM) for a customer to detect and monitor vital health statistics like temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, and more. The PoM uses an ARM Cortex M3 microcontroller with sensors, memory, Bluetooth, and an Android app to display readings. It achieves long battery life and accurate sensor readings comparable to leading brands. The modular design allows customizing the application board for other medical and industrial uses.
The customer, a leader in robotics, wanted to develop a new drone controlled by smartphone. They approached Mistral to develop an iOS app for the drone with photo/video capture, editing, transfer, and sharing features. Mistral designed the app to have a similar user experience to the iOS camera app. They developed the app using Swift and helped the customer finalize requirements. The solution enabled the customer to test drone hardware and improve media capture features ahead of schedule.
This White Paper talks of different aspects of Hardware and Software co-design with respect to embedded product design and the need need for co-design along side many more aspects.
The Rear-transition Module – Break-out Card (RTM-BOC)
from Mistral is an eight layer plug-in module. In addition, the RTM BOC contains four Gigabit Ethernet ports with PHY to support the SGMII lanes on the RTM connector.
Power Spikes Isolation to avoid corruption within sensitive ICs SolutionsMistral Solutions
The document describes a case study of resolving a power spike issue in a system. The power spikes were occurring during insertion of the power supply and corrupting an ASIC chip designed for tamper detection. Various attempts were made to filter the spike such as using capacitors, chokes, and diodes, but these did not work due to the high frequency of the spike. Finally, the issue was resolved by completely isolating the power and ground of the ASIC section using DC-DC isolation, as well as isolating interface signals, which prevented the spike from reaching the ASIC.
In this technical article, we present a Novel algorithm for the lossy compression method, where the performance and storage has been proscribed with hardware descriptive language (HDL).
In this Case Study read about Mistral’s expertise in designing a flexible and easily upgrade-able Video recording & processing solution with high resolution and frame rate for defense and aerospace applications.
Customized Silicon /System-on-Chip (SoC) from Mistral address the scalability and lesser turn-around time for product development in the Industrial automation domain.
In the age of seamless connectivity, standalone, single function media devices have converged into feature rich, complex, up-gradable, connected infotainment devices. Have a look at the Infographic designed by Mistral explaining the amazing world of Infotainment!
SONAR subsystems consist of underwater transducers, data recorders, controllers, signal processing and display systems. Have a look at the Infographic designed by Mistral explaining what SONAR is all about!
Batteries -Introduction – Types of Batteries – discharging and charging of battery - characteristics of battery –battery rating- various tests on battery- – Primary battery: silver button cell- Secondary battery :Ni-Cd battery-modern battery: lithium ion battery-maintenance of batteries-choices of batteries for electric vehicle applications.
Fuel Cells: Introduction- importance and classification of fuel cells - description, principle, components, applications of fuel cells: H2-O2 fuel cell, alkaline fuel cell, molten carbonate fuel cell and direct methanol fuel cells.
This paper proposes an algorithm to determine the top and bottom field order in interlaced video when that information is not provided by the video decoder. Knowing the field order is important for de-interlacing algorithms to reconstruct frames with minimal artifacts. The algorithm works by interpolating lines in assumed top fields and comparing pixel values to bottom lines, calculating confidence values for each field assumption. It then determines if the field order is correct or swapped based on the confidence values. The algorithm needs to run periodically to re-check the field order if the video input is disconnected and reconnected.
The RZ/G1E SMARC module developed by Mistral is a small form-factor, high performance module built around the 1GHz Renesas RZ/G1E dual ARM Cortex-A7
microprocessor (MPU).
The AM437x Application Board is a four layer Add-on Module for the AM437x PoM from Mistral built for the ARM-Cortex A9 Sitara AM437x SoC fromTexas Instruments.
In this article, we will demonstrate how a sample thermal printer can be interfaced with Mistral’s AM437x Product on Module. The AM437x POM is an ideal platform to build Point-of-Sale Terminal Devices with Thermal Printing Capability.
IoT based Industrial Gateway (IoT-SDK) built around Sitara™ AM437x processors...Mistral Solutions
Internet of Things (IoT) is a lot more than just connected devices and seamless communication. The emerging IoT is having a sweeping effect on the way goods are produced, triggering another industrial revolution – Industry 4.0.
Designing a Product on Module for Health and Wellness ApplicationsMistral Solutions
Mistral designed a small, battery-operated product on module (PoM) for a customer to detect and monitor vital health statistics like temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, and more. The PoM uses an ARM Cortex M3 microcontroller with sensors, memory, Bluetooth, and an Android app to display readings. It achieves long battery life and accurate sensor readings comparable to leading brands. The modular design allows customizing the application board for other medical and industrial uses.
The customer, a leader in robotics, wanted to develop a new drone controlled by smartphone. They approached Mistral to develop an iOS app for the drone with photo/video capture, editing, transfer, and sharing features. Mistral designed the app to have a similar user experience to the iOS camera app. They developed the app using Swift and helped the customer finalize requirements. The solution enabled the customer to test drone hardware and improve media capture features ahead of schedule.
This White Paper talks of different aspects of Hardware and Software co-design with respect to embedded product design and the need need for co-design along side many more aspects.
The Rear-transition Module – Break-out Card (RTM-BOC)
from Mistral is an eight layer plug-in module. In addition, the RTM BOC contains four Gigabit Ethernet ports with PHY to support the SGMII lanes on the RTM connector.
Power Spikes Isolation to avoid corruption within sensitive ICs SolutionsMistral Solutions
The document describes a case study of resolving a power spike issue in a system. The power spikes were occurring during insertion of the power supply and corrupting an ASIC chip designed for tamper detection. Various attempts were made to filter the spike such as using capacitors, chokes, and diodes, but these did not work due to the high frequency of the spike. Finally, the issue was resolved by completely isolating the power and ground of the ASIC section using DC-DC isolation, as well as isolating interface signals, which prevented the spike from reaching the ASIC.
In this technical article, we present a Novel algorithm for the lossy compression method, where the performance and storage has been proscribed with hardware descriptive language (HDL).
In this Case Study read about Mistral’s expertise in designing a flexible and easily upgrade-able Video recording & processing solution with high resolution and frame rate for defense and aerospace applications.
Customized Silicon /System-on-Chip (SoC) from Mistral address the scalability and lesser turn-around time for product development in the Industrial automation domain.
In the age of seamless connectivity, standalone, single function media devices have converged into feature rich, complex, up-gradable, connected infotainment devices. Have a look at the Infographic designed by Mistral explaining the amazing world of Infotainment!
SONAR subsystems consist of underwater transducers, data recorders, controllers, signal processing and display systems. Have a look at the Infographic designed by Mistral explaining what SONAR is all about!
Batteries -Introduction – Types of Batteries – discharging and charging of battery - characteristics of battery –battery rating- various tests on battery- – Primary battery: silver button cell- Secondary battery :Ni-Cd battery-modern battery: lithium ion battery-maintenance of batteries-choices of batteries for electric vehicle applications.
Fuel Cells: Introduction- importance and classification of fuel cells - description, principle, components, applications of fuel cells: H2-O2 fuel cell, alkaline fuel cell, molten carbonate fuel cell and direct methanol fuel cells.
Software Engineering and Project Management - Introduction, Modeling Concepts...Prakhyath Rai
Introduction, Modeling Concepts and Class Modeling: What is Object orientation? What is OO development? OO Themes; Evidence for usefulness of OO development; OO modeling history. Modeling
as Design technique: Modeling, abstraction, The Three models. Class Modeling: Object and Class Concept, Link and associations concepts, Generalization and Inheritance, A sample class model, Navigation of class models, and UML diagrams
Building the Analysis Models: Requirement Analysis, Analysis Model Approaches, Data modeling Concepts, Object Oriented Analysis, Scenario-Based Modeling, Flow-Oriented Modeling, class Based Modeling, Creating a Behavioral Model.
Comparative analysis between traditional aquaponics and reconstructed aquapon...bijceesjournal
The aquaponic system of planting is a method that does not require soil usage. It is a method that only needs water, fish, lava rocks (a substitute for soil), and plants. Aquaponic systems are sustainable and environmentally friendly. Its use not only helps to plant in small spaces but also helps reduce artificial chemical use and minimizes excess water use, as aquaponics consumes 90% less water than soil-based gardening. The study applied a descriptive and experimental design to assess and compare conventional and reconstructed aquaponic methods for reproducing tomatoes. The researchers created an observation checklist to determine the significant factors of the study. The study aims to determine the significant difference between traditional aquaponics and reconstructed aquaponics systems propagating tomatoes in terms of height, weight, girth, and number of fruits. The reconstructed aquaponics system’s higher growth yield results in a much more nourished crop than the traditional aquaponics system. It is superior in its number of fruits, height, weight, and girth measurement. Moreover, the reconstructed aquaponics system is proven to eliminate all the hindrances present in the traditional aquaponics system, which are overcrowding of fish, algae growth, pest problems, contaminated water, and dead fish.
Optimizing Gradle Builds - Gradle DPE Tour Berlin 2024Sinan KOZAK
Sinan from the Delivery Hero mobile infrastructure engineering team shares a deep dive into performance acceleration with Gradle build cache optimizations. Sinan shares their journey into solving complex build-cache problems that affect Gradle builds. By understanding the challenges and solutions found in our journey, we aim to demonstrate the possibilities for faster builds. The case study reveals how overlapping outputs and cache misconfigurations led to significant increases in build times, especially as the project scaled up with numerous modules using Paparazzi tests. The journey from diagnosing to defeating cache issues offers invaluable lessons on maintaining cache integrity without sacrificing functionality.
Advanced control scheme of doubly fed induction generator for wind turbine us...IJECEIAES
This paper describes a speed control device for generating electrical energy on an electricity network based on the doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) used for wind power conversion systems. At first, a double-fed induction generator model was constructed. A control law is formulated to govern the flow of energy between the stator of a DFIG and the energy network using three types of controllers: proportional integral (PI), sliding mode controller (SMC) and second order sliding mode controller (SOSMC). Their different results in terms of power reference tracking, reaction to unexpected speed fluctuations, sensitivity to perturbations, and resilience against machine parameter alterations are compared. MATLAB/Simulink was used to conduct the simulations for the preceding study. Multiple simulations have shown very satisfying results, and the investigations demonstrate the efficacy and power-enhancing capabilities of the suggested control system.
Electric vehicle and photovoltaic advanced roles in enhancing the financial p...IJECEIAES
Climate change's impact on the planet forced the United Nations and governments to promote green energies and electric transportation. The deployments of photovoltaic (PV) and electric vehicle (EV) systems gained stronger momentum due to their numerous advantages over fossil fuel types. The advantages go beyond sustainability to reach financial support and stability. The work in this paper introduces the hybrid system between PV and EV to support industrial and commercial plants. This paper covers the theoretical framework of the proposed hybrid system including the required equation to complete the cost analysis when PV and EV are present. In addition, the proposed design diagram which sets the priorities and requirements of the system is presented. The proposed approach allows setup to advance their power stability, especially during power outages. The presented information supports researchers and plant owners to complete the necessary analysis while promoting the deployment of clean energy. The result of a case study that represents a dairy milk farmer supports the theoretical works and highlights its advanced benefits to existing plants. The short return on investment of the proposed approach supports the paper's novelty approach for the sustainable electrical system. In addition, the proposed system allows for an isolated power setup without the need for a transmission line which enhances the safety of the electrical network