Mistral and ELMA partner to offer Electronics Packaging solutions to Indian embedded systems market

Bangalore, 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/

About Mistral Solutions

Established in 1997, Mistral is a premier product realization company providing end-to-end services for product design and development in the embedded space. Headquartered in Bangalore with regional offices in Delhi and Hyderabad, Mistral offers Systems Engineering and Value added Services that help customers build cost-effective, customized computing systems that excel in quality and accelerate time-to-market.

Mistral has forged successful partnerships with leading providers of embedded solutions, which has enabled us to provide our clients with the finest technology solutions based on the world's best platforms. Mistral’s partners include among others Wind River Systems and Curtiss-Wright Controls (CWC) Embedded Computing Organization making available RTOS, IDE tools and commercial & rugged grade COTS computing solutions for commercial, military, aerospace, and avionics markets.