What was the innovation that won you the Nasscom award?
We designed a board for defence applications: The V8TS Board (VME based 8-TigerSHARC and PowerPC board). The board is ideal for usage in radar, sonar and naval applications. The V8TS will revolutionise the development of defence, medical and communication applications like electronic and network centric warfare systems, infra-red search and tracking systems, mobile surveillance systems and airborne systems. The V8TS is an extremely powerful dual sub-system product consisting of digital signal processing and control processing on a single 6U VME platform. This is one of the first designs that combine the power of PowerPC and Multi-DSPs on a single platform. It took about an year to develop this product. How important is innovation for a company? Innovation plays a key role in Mistral’s design process. It is Mistral’s constant endeavour to deliver industry leading technologies in the embedded domain. One of our missions is to be a leading product-realization company, achieving about 30 p
