Mistral Joins Xilinx Alliance Program

Will offer design services and total solutions on Xilinx Programmable Logic

Bangalore -- October 25, 2005 -- Mistral Software, the product realization company specializing in real-time embedded solutions today announced its membership into the Xilinx Alliance Program. Xilinx is the worldwide leader of programmable logic solutions. The Xilinx Alliance Program includes companies who use new design methodologies that include HDL Synthesis, verification and use of highly optimized cores to quickly meet their performance and cost targets. The program is comprised of leading companies across the world that are trained to take full advantage of the features in Xilinx Platform FPGAs, software, and IP Cores.

As an alliance member, Mistral brings a wealth of detailed knowledge about specific system technologies, as well as expertise in using the latest programmable logic architectures and development tools. Mistral will now cater to the large Xilinx customer base offering them the highest quality of professional design services expertise and total solutions built on Xilinx programmable logic.

Mistral has worked extensively on Xilinx products ranging from the Virtex™ Series (Virtex-4 Platform and Virtex-II Pro FPGAs) to the Spartan™ Series (Spartan-3E FPGAs). Mistral’s engineers have developed a number of reusable IP Cores based on Xilinx FPGAs to help customers accelerate time-to-market with innovative electronic products and supported them with related design services. Mistral has executed up to 8 Million gates design, with maximum core operating frequency up to 150 MHz and maximum I/O operation at 750 MHz using Xilinx FPGAs.

“We are pleased to join hands with Xilinx, the worldwide leader of programmable logic solutions.” said Anees Ahmed, CEO, Mistral Software Pvt. Ltd. “Mistral’s extensive experience in FPGA / PLD based digital logic designs and IP cores on the Xilinx platform can be capitalized to help OEMs to shorten their development cycles and help them get their product to market faster.”

"We are pleased to have Mistral Software as a new Xilinx Alliance Program member,” said Mark Bowlby, Sr. Manager of Strategic Relationships at Xilinx. “We believe that adding Mistral underscores our commitment to provide our customers access to a worldwide network of professional design houses for delivering digital logic design and IP cores that help accelerate their product time-to-market and gain competitive advantage. Now, more of our customers can gain access to Mistral’s team of engineers with system level design expertise in and around Xilinx FPGA/PLDs".

Collaboration through the Xilinx Alliance Program

Mistral is now a member of the Xilinx Alliance Program as a provider of third-party design services. Xilinx established this program to provide its customers with access to a worldwide network of third-party products and services that enhance Xilinx devices and design flows. Alliance members have extensive experience with Xilinx technology in various vertical applications such as wireless and wired communications, consumer, automotive, audio, video, broadcast, storage and servers. Alliance members are an integral part of the Xilinx strategy to provide its customers with cost-efficient design solutions, while speeding time-to-market.

About Mistral

Mistral Software is an ISO 9001:2000 certified premier product realization company providing end-to-end professional services and reference designs in the embedded space. Mistral has domain expertise in Embedded Real-Time Development, Board and FPGA Design, Communication Protocols, VoIP and Digital Signal Processing. As a single source for both hardware and software engineering expertise, Mistral's expert design and development services have improved the quality and accelerated the time -to-market for a broad range of embedded systems. Mistral has operations in USA, Japan, Germany and India.

For more information, visit www.mistralsoftware.com.