Board Support Packages or BSP and Device Driver Development consist of hardware-specific drivers and other routines that allow a particular RTOS to function in a particular hardware environment. Board Support Packages or BSPs are a collection of information that define how to support a particular hardware, set of devices, or hardware platform. Board Support Packages (BSP Development) are software packages or the “glue” that provide support based on the OS and SoC used in the hardware board. Board Support Packages are a customizable set of files that allow users to specify which drivers and routines are needed for a particular hardware based on the target application. Mistral’s customers can leverage on our in-depth expertise in Board Support Packages services on hardware platforms like ARM, PowerPC, Intel, NXP, Qualcomm and more for Embedded Linux, Window, Android, VxWorks, RTEMS OSes.

Board Support Packages

Mistral’s Product Engineering team offers comprehensive BSP Development services or Board Support Packages, addressing all the critical aspects of the respective OS kernel for an embedded device, enabling quick time-to-market. Our BSP Development services are compliant with MISRA C standards. Our Board Support Packages – BSP development services for Linux, Android, VxWorks, RTEMS and other popular platforms cater to a wide range of architecture such as ARM Cortex A8/A9/A15, OMAP and DM series from Texas Instruments, Renesas, Intel and NXP (earlier Freescale), Qualcomm SoCs and more. Our BSP Development services take into consideration the architecture specific constraints and ensure ease of porting to a different platform. All our Development Platforms and SoM Modules also include a binary Board Support Packages for Android and/or Debian/ Yocto Linux to help customer’s kick-start their product development process using these platforms. Mistral offers Board Support Packages on various leading platforms and processors helping customers choose the best architecture for their product. In addition to Board Support Packages, we also offer related middleware support such as networking, security, storage, graphics, and input/output to the set of Board Support Package libraries based on the custom hardware being developed.

BSP Development Services

In embedded systems, a board support package (BSP) is the layer of software containing hardware-specific boot firmware and device drivers and other routines that allow a given embedded operating system, for example a real-time operating system (RTOS), to function in a given hardware environment (a motherboard), integrated with the embedded operating system.^[1][2][3] Mistral’s product engineering team can develop complete Board Support Packages, supporting all the lower-level aspects of the operating system for an embedded product. Our BSP development services includes boot-loader and kernel porting, development of custom device drivers, system integration, boot time optimization, factory flashing and in-field system upgrade, memory management and power optimization, support to application developers. Mistral’s Board Support Packages Development services team has extensive experience in porting of operating systems and BSP Development for various embedded systems and integration of various peripherals such as audio, video, storage, network, graphics, connectivity, buses, wireless, industrial sensors, User interface (UI) and other components as the design demands. Our BSP Development services provide complete functionality to enable communication between different system components.