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Furthering its initiatives on Texas
Instruments' platforms,
one of the leading product
realization company specializing in real-time embedded solutions, has
announced daughter cards for TI evaluation modules based on TI's
Sitara AM1x microprocessors (MPUs) and OMAP-L1x application
processors for embedded industrial, medical and consumer designs.
TI's Sitara and OMAP platforms
address customer concerns of cost, connectivity, power efficiency and
ease of development of applications by providing a platform with
robust operating systems support, rich user interfaces and high
processing performance. These processors feature a unique rich
peripheral sub-system known as the Programmable Real-time Unit (PRU).
The PRU sub-system consists of dual 32-bit RISC processors,
specifically designed for manipulation of packed memory mapped data
structures and for implementing system features that have tight
real-time constraints. It offers flexible and configurable
input/output controls, enabling developers to extend peripheral
capabilities and add custom interfaces to their designs.
Mistral offers two plug-in daughter
cards helping developers leverage the benefits of the PRU features on
the AM1x and OMAP-L1x processors: The UART daughter card has
interfaces for soft UART, hard UART and soft DIR. The CAN daughter
card provides soft CAN and hard CAN bus interfaces.
Mistral has worked extensively on TI's
leading technology platforms, providing professional services in the
areas of custom board design, reference designs, driver development,
board support packages and software integration across various
technology domains.
“Mistral has been in the forefront of
providing a host of well-received offerings on TI platforms,” said
Samyeer Metrani, VP-Services (USA), Mistral. “Our two daughter
cards for TI's AM1x and OMAP-L1x lines of processors allow
developers to leverage the PRU functionality, thereby helping
customers build solutions targeted at the industrial and automotive
markets. Mistral will also offer development and customization
services to customers planning to build next-generation devices
around the Sitara and OMAP platforms,” he added.
“TI is committed to offer resources
to help make development easier for our customers' hardware and
software engineers,” said Sean Murphy, Marketing Manager-Sitara,
TI. “By working with Mistral to develop the daughter cards and
software, customers can enjoy benefits including low customer
development costs and improved connectivity. The daughter cards
enable customers to eliminate the development cycle from the design
process by providing the source code for the PRU, enabling the cards
to be easily snapped onto the EVMs for extra capabilities, ultimately
allowing for a shortened time to market from faster proto-typing,"
said Murphy