Desi solutions fuel device developers' love of Linux Special Correspondent
Mistral's Wireless solution (left) and `starter kit' (right) leverage the popularity of Linux. Bangalore: Indian engineers are helping to fuel the increasing world-wide popularity of the `free-and-open' Linux platform for a host of handy consumer devices from mobile phones to music players to portable life-saving devices — and they are doing this using internationally used chip platforms. The Bangalore-based Mistral Software has just put together a solution for a Wireless LAN offering — the first available globally, to exploit the recently released ``DaVinci'' platform from Texas Instruments. This will enable product developers to wireless-enable compellingly priced products from smart phones and pocket PCs, to video conferencing, security and projection equipment. It can be run under Windows — or a Linux flavour of software. Another recent Mistral offering is a `starter kit' based on TI's OMAP P 2340 signal processing chip. It comes pre-loaded with embedded Linux and all electronics, including a small display screen. Gadget makers can easily fashion the Mistral kit any way they want so that it appears in customers' hands in any one of a dozen device `avatars.' The Wireless offering is a good illustration of how Indian digital solutions involve collaboration across continents. The `desi' software fuels a Wireless Local Area Network module from Japan-based Murata Manufacturing Company, which in turn works with the DM644x signal processing chips from U.S.-based Texas Instruments, code-named Da Vinci. And TI has a very significant development arm in Bangalore — so the creative trail can be said to start and end in India — with a stopover in two other geographies! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
