Mistral Solutions, has become part of Texas Instruments' Elite Design House Network, a chain of premier independent, well-established companies offering system-level design services and products to a worldwide customer base.

The Bangalore-based Mistral said it will now be part of a niche group of international companies that offer system-level design services and products, providing accelerated product innovation and time-to-market to product developers.

TI’s Elite Design House (EDH) is a network of members who provide design feasibility, research, complete system/product design, hardware/software system integration, prototyping, manufacturing, and product life-cycle management services to a worldwide customer base. The EDH has 24 member companies from across the world catering to product engineering and design requirements of international customers in domains such as medical, industrial, video and imaging, and wireless.

Mistral has collaborated with TI on various projects based on TI’s ARM, digital signal processors (DSPs), multi-core processors, providing development platforms and reference designs for customers and provided custom design services to various customers to build connected and wireless devices using the EVMs as the base development platform across consumer electronics, lifestyle electronics, medical electronics, home automation, security and surveillance, automotive and communication domains.

"This partnership is the next stage in our association with TI and will take product engineering to a higher level and help customers bring out technology-rich connected devices to the market,” said Anees Ahmed, chairman, Mistral.

“Mistral has been a developer of platforms and hardware and software tools based on TI devices for the past decade. Combined with their customized services, Mistral has accelerated the product development cycle for many customers with their impressive end-to-end, ‘chip-to-product’ capabilities,” said Christopher Gourrier, Worldwide Elite Design House Program Manager.