Bangalore, 21st October 2009 – Mistral Solutions, a leading provider of complete technology solutions and professional services in the embedded space, and Ashling Microsystems, a leading provider of embedded debug tools, have announced the availability of the Ashling Opella-XDS560 Debug Probe For TI OMAP processors.

Opella-XDS560 is a high-performance JTAG Debug Probe supporting all Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) platforms. Opella-XDS560 works with TI’s Code Composer Studio™ (CCStudio) integrated development environment (IDE) and seamlessly plugs into the CCStudio environment allowing convenient debugging of application code actually running on the target system.

Key Features of Opella-XDS560 include:

• Support for all TI devices including OMAP™35x applications processors, DaVinci™ video processors, TMS320C6000™ and TMS320C5000™ DSP platforms and the TMS320C2000™ MCU and TMS470™ platforms
• Fast, easy-to-install USB 2.0 High-Speed Interface (480Mb/s)
• Wide target voltage range: 0.5V to 5.0V
• Target JTAG clock rates from 500 kHz to 50MHz with full support for adaptive clocking (RTCK) of debug data from target
• High-speed Real-Time Data eXchange (RTDX) support (allows rapid data transfer between host and target non-intrusively in real-time). RTDX data rates of over 2MB/s are supported
• Real-time, non-intrusive breakpoints and event triggering
• Code download speeds at over 500KB/s
• 14-pin and 20-pin (compact TI) JTAG target connectors supported
• Full support for TI’s DBGJTAG low-level JTAG test utility (supplied with CCStudio)
• “The Ashling Opella-XDS560 Debug Probe has undergone detailed testing and validation at TI

and supports the full range of standard emulation and debugging capabilities with drivers that fully integrate the tool with the CCStudio from TI,” said John Murphy, Managing Director, Ashling Division, SFO Technologies.

“Mistral is pleased to be associated with Ashling Microsystems in bringing out a development tool that will alleviate product development on powerful TI platforms like OMAP and DaVinci. We plan to expand our EVM offerings by making the Opella-XDS560 available as a bundled solution along with the EVM. We believe that it will be of significant interest to the developer community, providing them with affordable XDS560 class debuggers for TI processor families that will ease their debugging process,” added Samyeer Metrani, VP-Services (USA).

Opella-XDS560 supports CCStudio version 3.3 and version 4 and is available from Mistral for US$1,495. Opella-XDS560 is also available as a bundled solution with the OMAP3 EVM; priced at US$ 2,499. For more information call 1-877 465 6725 and ask for Robert or Mark.

About Mistral Solutions

Mistral is a CMMi Level 3, ISO 9001:2000 certified premier product realization company providing end-to-end services for product design and development in the embedded space. We offer expert design and development services covering hardware and software, customizable product designs and IPs, System Integration and COTS Solutions that improve quality and accelerate time-to market for a broad range of embedded systems. Mistral’s expert design and development services and strategic partnerships with leading technology companies help us offer a comprehensive package of end-to-end services ranging from front-end consulting and planning to developing, integrating and managing technology solutions.

Mistral Solutions is a broad market OMAP Technology Center (OTC) offering services in the area of software and hardware design, development and consulting on the OMAP™ platform.

OMAP is a trademark of Texas Instruments.

About Ashling Microsystems

Ashling Microsystems is an international Embedded Software Development Tools company. Ashling is a subsidiary of the NeST Group, a broad based technology provider operating in the areas of software development, electronics design and manufacturing, optronics and fiber optics, broadband and RF solutions and power systems and magnetics. Through its close cooperation with leading semiconductor vendors, Ashling is a world leader in the Embedded Software Development Tools market. Ashling has development centres in Limerick, Ireland and Trivandrum, India. Ashling has sales and support representatives worldwide.

About the Texas Instruments Developer Network

Mistral Solutions is a member of the TI Developer Network, a community of respected, well established companies offering products and services based on TI analog and digital technology. The Network provides a broad range of end-equipment solutions, embedded software, engineering services and development tools that help customers accelerate innovation to make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun. All product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners