Source: Mistral Solutions
May 28, 2008

Mistral becomes official distributors of Altium’s Unified Electronic Design Solutions in India

Bangalore, May, 2008 - Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a leading provider of complete technology solutions and professional services in the embedded space has been appointed as a value-added reseller by Altium Limited for their unified electronic product development solutions.
As an Altium partner and authorized distributor of Altium solutions, Mistral will represent Altium in India and provide technical and sales support for Altium Designer and Altium’s Innovation Station, which combines Altium Designer with the Desktop NanoBoard reconfigurable hardware development platform.

Altium’s flagship product, Altium Designer, is the world's leading unified electronic product development solution that allows engineers to take a design from concept to completion within a single application. It unifies board- and FPGA-level system design, embedded software development for FPGA-based processors, and PCB layout, editing and manufacturing within a single design environment. This, combined with modern design data management capabilities, makes Altium Designer a complete solution for electronic product development – a solution that caters for both today's and tomorrow's development needs.

Altium's unified electronic product development solutions help users harness the latest devices, technologies and methodologies allowing accelerated product development timeframes, reduced time-to-market and design and product innovation in ways not previously possible. These solutions enable electronics engineers, designers and developers create more intelligent and innovative electronics products.

“Mistral’s extensive expertise in providing cost-effective, customized computing systems combined with Altium’s experience in electronic design will enable our clients from various industry segments to enjoy the benefits of solutions that excel in quality and accelerate time-to-market. Customers can now have a truly unified electronics design solution, enabling complete electronic product development in a single unified design environment at an affordable price.” said Mujahid Alam, Vice President – Sales, Mistral Solutions. “

“India’s reputation for quality software development continues to grow in global significance which we believe will increasingly apply to the design of intelligent, connected electronic products“ said Emma Lo Russo, Altium’s President and Chief Operating Officer. “Altium believes this is where the future of electronics design lies – in a unified approach that starts with the functionality and the design of the ‘intelligence’ of the device. Altium’s solutions – Altium Designer and the Altium Innovation Station – makes it easy and cost-effective for organizations to equip electronics designers to be successful and innovative.”

“Adding Mistral Solutions to our network of partners in India is another step to ensuring that Indian developers are equipped with the electronics design tools that will give them the edge for the future. Mistral’s extensive sales and support staff qualifies them to perform the full range of Altium sales, after-sales support and training that customers should expect to be successful.”
About Altium

Altium Limited (ASX:ALU) is the leading developer of electronic product development solutions dedicated to unifying the different design disciplines involved in electronics product development. Altium products ensure all electronic engineers, designers, developers, and their organizations take maximum advantage of emerging design technologies to bring smarter products to market faster and easier. Founded in 1985, Altium has headquarters in Sydney, Australia, sales offices in the United States, Europe, Japan, China, and resellers in all other major markets.

For more information, please visit: http://www.altium.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.

For more information, please visit: http://www.mistralsolutions.com/