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INTRODUCTION TO CARAVEL INFO SYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED Caravel Info Systems Private Limited is an ISO 9001 certified Information Technology solutions company with a mission to offer quality, cost effective and time bound solutions meeting our customers short term and long term business needs. Caravel Info Systems Private Limited is promoted by a group of like-minded professionals with exhaustive experience in offering complete solutions, to customers worldwide. These professionals are highly qualified with postgraduate qualifications from India’s reputed institutes such as IITs and IISc, and have put in a number of years of experience in executing large IT projects. The company boasts of a well-equipped offshore software / hardware development facility for providing outsourcing services. The present strength of Caravel is 65 hardware / software engineers. Caravel has large infrastructure set up to provide services of a high order. Located in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, it boasts of 8000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art development center with a full compliment of development systems. These are Pentium based workstations running Windows 95 and Windows NT, networked with servers running Windows NT, UNIX, QNX ( RTOS ). The software includes the full suite of development tools from Microsoft, Oracle, specific workbenches, project management tools and case tools. We have already put our hardware / software development processes in place and has got the coveted ISO 9001 certificate. The areas of expertise in which we can offer our services are mentioned below: 1. Design of Complete Products, Sub systems, PCI / VME Add-on cards etc using of-the-shelf and custom Microprocessors and Micro-controllers 2. Development of Mil Grade Systems 3. Development of Firmware for the above products using Assembly, C and C++ 4. Development of Embedded Software using Realtime operating systems such as QNX 5. Development of Integrated Development Environment for various processors / DSPs including project manager, language sensitive editors, Assemblers, Cycle accurate Instruction set simulators, parallel processing analyzers etc 6. Development of User applications using VC++, VB, JAVA, ASP on SQL / Oracle platforms. Embedded System Design - Skill set · Sub-system / Product Design, FPGA / Board Design, Embedded Systems & System Software · Development of hardware systems using Intel Pentium 4 & related chipset, Power PC processor, TI-DSPs, 8/16-bit micro-controllers ( S12, 8051, ARM7 based families) · ISA, PCI, PC 104, VME bus based boards · Ethernet, USB, I2C, SPI, SCSI, SATA based peripheral connectivity · FPGA - Xilinx, Altera, Cypress FPGA/CPLD based digital logic designs using VHDL tools · Board Design. · Embedded Software programming in Assembly, C, C++ · User interface / MIMIC programming in VC++, JAVA · Development of Simulators, Emulators and Monitors. · Tool chain development for various processors · Protocol Implementations Electronic Board design Capabilities Partial list of Electronic Boards/ Cards developed by us · Boards of size upto 12.5" X 8.5" · Board up to 12 layers · Boards with BGA's of pin type 1152 pins ( XILINX Virtex II FPGA ), PQFP packages · PMC form factor boards · PCI / VME add-on cards and Standalone boards · Interfaces to LCD, Touch Screen, real-time interfaces to color contrast scanners, hydraulic / pneumatic actuators, industrial buses etc Development and Manufacturing facilities · Competencies across various Development Environments · Evaluation Kits for various processors · Development Software - SDKs, IDEs, VHDL compiler/simulator software for CPLDs, FPGAs · RTOS - QNX · Workstations / Jigs · Device Programmers · Test and Measurement Instruments · Schematic Capture Software · Tie-up with PCB design and PCB fabrication houses · Anti static Assembly and repair workstations A few of the projects we carried out successfully for our overseas and domestic clients are listed below. 1. Development of MPC860 based Encoder decoder system a number of realtime inputs and outputs for a defense establishment. 2. Development of MC9S12DP256 Micro-controller based Encoder system meeting the Military grade standards for a defense establishment. 3. Development of Pentium 4 M processor, 855 chipset based mini-ITX form factor board. 4. Development of Pentium 4 M processor, 855 chipset based EPIC form factor board. 5. Development of Pentium 4 M processor, 855 chipset based ATX form factor board. 6. Development of a Motherboard with a proprietary 32 bit RISC processor which supports 1GB SDRAM, 4 MB Flash, 16MB SRAM, 4 PCI slots, Floppy drive, SCSI drives, Keyboard, Mouse. Development of BIOS and Linux drivers for the same. 7. VHDL code development for a Altera Cyclone FPGA used in Texas Instruments TMS320LF2407A DSP based a Three phase variable frequency drive controller board. Board bring up, including board bring-up code and diagnostics. 8. Embedded controller for Transducer Calibrator system for a transducer manufacturing company. 9. PCI bus based add-on card implementing dual channel PCM data simulator and serializer with programmable bit rates upto 1 MHz for each channel for Indian Space Research Organisation. Also developed the driver for Win98 using Windows DDK and user interface program(GUI) to operate the same. 10. PCI bus based add-on card implementing dual channel BPSK modulator with carrier frequency programmable from 1 KHz to 1 MHz per channel using state-of-the-art Direct Digital Synthesizer chip. Also developed the driver for Win98 using Windows DDK and user interface program (GUI) to operate the same. 11. Design and development of a Microprocessor based high-end audio entertainment system with GUI incorporating 640 X 200 LCD panel and touch screen with RF based remote control for one of our UK client. 12. PIC18F8520 micro-controller based display board with Numeric LEDs and Keyboard interface, RS485 communication for a Wheel Balancing Machine. 13. Micro-controller based Vehicle Tracking system using GPS/GSM modules 14. Micro-controller based UPS monitoring system for one of the major UPS manufacturers. 15. Development of controller for Special Purpose Bar cutting machine. 16. Development of controller for a Turnstile. 17. Development of controller for Automatic Car Washing machine 18. Development of micro-controller based data entry terminal with LCD panel and Keyboard for Apparel industry. 19. Reverse engineering of Telephone card printing unit. 20. Design and development of a Pentium processor based Web telephone ( set-top box ) for one of our US client using QNX real time operating system. 21. Development of a full-fledged IDE ( Integrated Development Environment ) with project manager, assembler, Linker and Cycle-Accurate Instruction Set Simulator functionality for a DSP core manufacturer in Sweden. 22. Development of an assembler, Linker and Parallel instruction analyser for an optical DSP core manufacturer in Europe. 23. A Windows CE based embedded E-Book for a company in Chicago, USA using OEB standards using embedded VC++. 24. Performance improvement of printer firmware for a major printer manufacturer in India. 25. Design and development of a printer controller board for a dual head printer for a major printer manufacturer in India. 26. Design and development of intranet based Integrated Manufacturing Aid System for a major PC manufacturer in India. Involved development of Hardware and firmware, application development using VC++, ASP and SQL Server. 27. Design and development of intranet based Integrated Manufacturing Aid System for a major PC manufacturer in Singapore. Involved development of Hardware and firmware, application development using VC++, ASP and SQL Server. The system consists of a automatic system test jig which tests and clears all peripheral ports of the PC without any manual interaction. 28. Design and development of intranet based Hospital management system for one of our clients using ASP, SQL Server 29. Design and development of Live Guided Practice development environment and player for Windows and Java based applications using VC++, SQL server, VOIP etc. 30. A number of B2B and B2C portals for major Information technology companies. 31. Implementation of ERP package BaaN in a number of industries such as Manufacturing, distribution etc.