August 2008
Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a leading provider of complete technology solutions and professional services in the embedded space, has entered into a partnership with ELMA Electronic, leading designer and manufacturer of electronics packaging systems.

The company provides standard to fully customized components such as modular enclosures, cabinets and backplanes. Elma’s modular approach allows fast, cost-effective, and proven performance for customized design modifications to standard platforms. The base products are centered around 19” and 23” Eurocard specifications, with creative design innovations for VME/ VME64x, CompactPCI/2.16, VPX, VXI/PXI, AdvancedTCA/MicroTCA and other architectures. The company’s design expertise allows fast implementation of full custom designs for backplanes, sub-racks, enclosures and cabinets.

These solutions will enable Mistral to offer its customers standard, modified and custom electronic enclosures that house and protect sensitive electronics and electrical components in a range of markets, including defense, telecommunications, medical, and industrial automation.

“Mistral’s prowess in integrating a diverse range of pre-configured components and off-the-shelf products with our custom engineered solutions has helped us emerge as a key embedded solutions provider across varied industry segments. Our tie up with ELMA, the world-leading brand of enclosure products makes us well positioned to address the electronic packaging and enclosure needs of the Indian embedded systems market.” said Ramanan J.V, Assistant General Manager – SED, Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

About Elma Electronic
Elma Electronic Inc. is a leading manufacturer and supplier of enclosures, backplanes, cabinets, cases, and "ready-to-run" packaging for ATCA, CPCI, MicroTCA, Rugged COTS, VME/64x, VPX, and custom bus structures. Elma's component product line offers a wide selection of top quality switches knobs and LED arrays. The company has been a worldwide supplier of dependable, high performance products for over 35 years. Elma operates three facilities in the continental United States plus has locations in Switzerland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Israel.

For more information, please visit: http://www.elma.com/

Mistral’s PCM Telemetry Encoder is a robust and fully configurable On-Board system designed for analyzing flight parameters in airborne applications.

Features of Mistral’s PCM Telemetry Encoder

Telemetry is a highly automated remote sensing technique; using which parameters such as velocity, altitude, temperature etc. are measured at remote locations, and the results transmitted to a distant station where they are displayed, recorded, and analyzed. The transmission media may be air, space, copper wire or fiber cable, depending on the application.

Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) Telemetry is a way of encoding data in a serial digital format, and transmitting it on a carrier to another location for decoding and analysis. PCM systems are preferred over analog systems as they are less susceptible to noise and due to the relative ease of transmit, record, and analyze digital data.

The PCM Telemetry Encoder from Mistral is compact rugged design that withstands extreme conditions and consistently delivers accurate data.

Product Specifications

• AMCC PPC405 based system
• Comprises of Data Acquisition, Conversion, Frame processing FPGA and PCM output section
• Supports multiplexed sampling of 64 Analog channels
• Conforms to IRIG 106 Standard for PCM Frame Encoding
• MIL-STD-1553 Monitor/Remote Terminal with a dual-redundant bus interface to monitor and capture On-Board 1553 bus transactions
• MIL Grade Aluminum enclosure of 140mm x 110mm x 115 mm
• Operating temperature range: -40°C to +70°C
• Targeted at remote measurement and control for airborne applications

Mistral’s Solutions for Defense and Aerospace

Backed by several years of experience in supporting the technology needs of the aerospace and defense industries, Mistral offers high-performance, high-capability data acquisition and signal processing solutions that cater to the exacting requirements of surveillance, communication and radar applications.

Mistral’s expertise includes designing, building and deploying customized solutions for defense electronics applications by using integrating multi-vendor solutions with custom software and hardware.