NeST to Exhibit in ESC Silicon Valley 2010
NeST is a proud participant of the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley 2010 at
Please join us at the conference exhibits at on April 26-29 2010, Booth 2224,
NeST Rolls Out Multi-Media IPs
NeST, today unveiled several multi-media IPs targeting customers looking for customized hardware based video processing solutions. The set consists of Video Processing Cores for major FPGA platforms and a multi-media framework, supporting several customizable codecs and trick-play characteristics.
NeST-NVIDIA Centre for GPU Computing inaugurated by Dr. Bill Dally, Chief Scientist, NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation, the world leader in Visual Computing initiatives and NeST, a premier provider of specialized Software and Engineering services announced the setting up of their Centre for GPU Computing at the NeST premises in Technopark,
NeST has set up the Centre for GPU (graphics processing unit) computing as part of its business focus on High performance Computing (HPC). This Centre, equipped with the latest products from NVIDIA, is staffed by highly qualified and experienced engineers from NeST to develop High Performance Computing solutions for their customers. NeST will be providing CUDA Professional Services and GPU Computing Multi-core services to their joint customers worldwide. NeST has also declared its plans to offer training services on the NVIDIACUDA architecture. R&D organizations as well as Academic institutions can avail the capabilities of this centre.
CUDA, NVIDIAs parallel computing architecture, accessible through an industry standard C language programming environment, has already delivered cost-effective multi gigaFLOP performance and revolutionized visual computing across industry domains. NeSTs Multicore Services Group will help harness the power of new generation GPUs from NVIDIA to deliver low-cost, fast-to-market products for their customers in the healthcare, security and consumer electronics domain.
It is completely clear that GPUs are now general purpose parallel computing processors with amazing graphics, and not just graphics chips any more, said Bernhard Gleissner, NVIDIA Vice President of Sales for EMEA and India. CUDA helps the GPU achieve great computational efficiency and many companies globally have already recognised this in their adoption of the CUDA architecture. With the launch of the NeST Centre for GPU Computing the benefits of the parallel computing prowess of GPUs can be reaped by many more Indian and global organizations.
With the establishment of this Centre, NeST has acquired a key technology to provide GPU based solutions to the compute intensive problems of our customers stated Mr. N Jehangir, Vice Chairman & MD, NeST Group. The massively parallel floating point processors in the NVIDIA GPU architecture, delivers exceptional throughput to meet the demanding compute requirements of applications like medical imaging, industrial inspection, multimedia, modeling and simulation said Mr. S. Sasi Kumar, President, NeST Software.
For more information on NVIDIA CUDA, please visit www.nvidia.in/cuda and for more information on NeST and their services, visit www.nestsoftware.com and www.nestgroup.net .
About NeST
NeST Software (Network Systems & Technologies (P) Ltd), is a technology company which offers customized software and hardware development services for engineering applications and product development services for customers worldwide. NeST Software, is the Software division of SFO Technologies and is part of the NeST Group of companies (www.nestgroup.net ). With some of the worlds leading corporations as customers; NeST has business operations in the
Early Success For Ashling
Early success for Ashlings Opella-XDS560 JTAG Probe for TI Devices
October 2009:
The Opella-XDS560 JTAG probe, launched in Q2 2009, by the Ashling Division of the NeST Group is already proving to be a big hit with Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) developers.
Opella-XDS560 is a high performance JTAG Debug Probe supporting all TI platforms. The product has been successfully verified by TI in
Ashling has an established reputation in development tools and were glad to cooperate with their development of Opella-XDS560. said Stephen Lau, Product Manager for Emulation Technology at TI. We are looking forward to continued close collaboration in the future.
N Jehangir, Vice Chairman & Managing Director of the NeST Group said, The Opella-XDS 560 JTAG probe is a typical example of how we effectively coupled our development facilities in
John Murphy, Managing Director of Ashling Division, said, We at Ashling and NeST are grateful for the support we have received from TI in bringing this product to market. We are delighted with the feedback from customers so far and we are now planning to further broaden our support for TI.
Opella-XDS560 works with TIs 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. Features include:
Support for all TI devices including OMAP and digital media processors based on DaVinci technology, as well as the 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
Front-panel LEDs show Power, USB and Target status
Full support for TIs DBGJTAG low-level JTAG test utility (supplied with CCStudio)
Opella-XDS560 supports CCStudio version 3.3, version 4 and above.
About Ashling Microsystems (NeST Group)
Ashling Microsystems 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 NeST at
NeST to Host Seminar on Advanced Technologies for Defense/Aerospace Sector
NeST Software and SIATI (Society of Indian Aerospace Technologies and Industries) will be jointly organizing a technical conference at
During recent times, the cooperation between Defense sector and industry is increasing in the electronics, computer science and software areas and both parties need to synergize and work together to reap the benefits of new technology advancements. In this context, NeST is taking the leadership along with SIATI to organize a conference targeting various Defense Labs and other select players who are partners to the Indian defense sector.
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NeST Releases BSP for Windows CE 6 on PXA 320
NeST has announced the availability of BSP for Windows CE 6.0 targeting Marvell's PXA 320 platforms. Work on a Linux port is now underway and is expected to be released shortly. Please contact software.info@nestgroup,net for pricing and details.
NeST to Exhibit in ESC India 2009
NeST is a proud participant of Embedded Systems Conference India 2009 at
Please join us at the conference exhibits at booth C5 at the
NeST & EASi announce strategic partnership
Technopark, Trivandrum, India May 1st, 2009: NeST, a premier provider of electronics hardware and software services has partnered with EASi (www.easi.com), a leader in Vehicle Product Engineering based in Michigan, USA to develop integrated solutions for the Automobile industry. EASi and NeST will jointly offer value-added solutions in Active Safety, Telematics, Infotainment and Navigation systems.
This long term partnership is a vision to integrate state-of-the-art mechanical, electrical/electronics systems through strong domain knowledge.
"New developments in automotive engineering require true synergy between mechanical systems, electronics and control systems. Through this partnership we will strive to provide innovative solutions to our customers" said EASis president, Prakash "Krish" Krishnaswamy.
"Our partnership with EASi will leverage our core strengths of Embedded Engineering services coupled with our value added Electronics Manufacturing Services. EASis strengths in Mechanical systems design and simulation in combination with our expertise in Software and Electronics will help us to deliver optimized, high quality product solutions to the automotive industry", said NESTs Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Mr. N. Jehangir.
NeST achieves Automotive SPICE Level 5 Certification - 4th company in the world
Network Systems and Technologies Pvt Ltd (NeST) - a part of the NeST Group of Companies, has announced that its Automotive Software division has achieved Automotive SPICE Organizational Maturity Level 5 certification under the PATHFINDERTM scheme. NeST becomes the fourth company in the world and the first company in Technopark to receive the Automotive SPICE Maturity Level 5 certification.
Automotive SPICE (ASPICE) is a framework for assessing software development processes for automotive applications. The ASPICE initiative is supported by several car manufactures such as Audi, BMW, Ford, Fiat, Daimler, Porsche, Volkswagen and Volvo and has today become a standard in the international automotive industry
A joint assessment team from
Alec Dorling , who is also the international convener of the ISO/IEC standardization project said: NeST joins the select group of companies that have achieved certification to Automotive SPICE Maturity Level 5 under the PATHFINDERTM scheme. This is a significant achievement and reaffirms NeSTs commitment to adhere to worlds best practices in developing software for the automotive industry. With the quantum of software required to be developed for Automobiles increasing exponentially, the addition of NeST as an ASPICE high maturity developer can only be beneficial to the industry.
At NeST, Quality has always been a way of life, with continual allegiance to quality standards like ISO 9001, CMMI and the recent accreditation by
Mr. N Jehangir, Vice Chairman and MD of the NeST Group said: We are extremely proud to have been awarded the ASPICE Maturity Level 5 Certification. It is all the more significant because we are only the fourth company in the world to have achieved this. It demonstrates our passion for quality and commitment to deliver software adhering to the worlds best practices.
The automotive software group is part of the 1200 plus team of engineers at NeST. Located at Technopark,
The use of electronics in cars is increasing significantly in order to make cars safer, smarter, less polluting and more enjoyable to drive and be driven. Electronics will account for 40% of the production cost of cars by 2015, which in turn represents a huge opportunity for software development. The ASPICE Maturity Level 5 Certification gives us a definite advantage in seeking a share of this market opportunity, said S Sasi Kumar, President, NeST.
NeST @ ESEC, Japan from May 13-15, 2009
NeST will be participating in the 12th Embedded Systems Expo in
Booth # East 51-8
Venue: Tokyo Big Sight,
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For more information on ESEC,
NeST opens office in Munich, Germany
The NeST Group, a leading engineering services and solutions provider to global markets, has opened its office in
INNOPT'08 - Conference organized by NeST SEPG
INNOPT is coined from the two streams of this years conference - Process Innovation and Performance Optimization.
Process innovation take a giant leap forward from mere adherence, and forms the corner stone for any process improvement efforts. Contrary to common perception, innovation is what separates a great process from a good one. The theme was chosen by SEPG to instill the importance of innovation among process ch
NeST gets ISTQB accreditation
NeST Software adds another feather to its cap by getting accreditation from ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board). ISTQB is based in
NeST has always been in the forefront in getting international quality certification for its software development center in
NeST Software division located in Technopark, Trivandrum has over 1100 highly skilled software professionals developing software for equipments that perform mission critical functions in Healthcare, Automobile, Manufacturing, Power Generation and Communications.
Mr. N Jehangir, Vice Chairman & Managing Director of NeST group said that ISQTB accreditation is yet another step in our commitment to achieve International level of quality and customer satisfaction in all areas of our operation. Mr. Jehangir congratulated the team on this envious achievement and urged them to continue their pursuit to achieve global excellence.
Software testing plays a major role in the quality of the final software delivered. Software testing professionals have to be adequately trained to undertake this highly skilled job. NeST lays considerable emphasis on the training of its professionals, and now with its ISTQB accredited training courseware, the company will be able to enhance the quality of its software testers. Software testing professionals at NeST who have undergone the ISTQB accredited training will be equipped to take up the certification themselves. NeST Cyber Campus, the training division of NeST group will be offering the ISTQB accredited testing course to all the testing professionals in Kerala who are aspiring for ISTQB Certification.
NeST Software is part of the diversified NeST Group which has over 3000 employees offering software development, hardware design, manufacturing and systems integration solutions to global customers.
NeST Exhibiting at ESC India 2008, Bangalore
NeST is a proud participant of ESC India 2008 at
Please register to attend so you can join us at the conference exhibits at booth C18 at the
Tuesday, October 14 - Exhibit Hours: 10:00-18:00 hrs
Wednesday, October 15 - Exhibit Hours: 10:00-18:00 hrs
Thursday, October 16 - Exhibit Hours: 10:00-18:00 hrs
Friday, October 17 - Exhibit Hours: 10:30-15:00 hrs
This four-day program includes sponsored sessions presented by industry heavy-weights. These free 50 minute sessions are open to all attendees and grant you in-depth hands-on solutions to specific design challenges.
Exhibits and demonstrations will provide you with the opportunity to see embedded technology in action as well as network with leading experts in the industry.
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NeST acquires Ashling
NeST has bought Ashling Microsystems Ltd. (
NeST provides information technology outsourcing services around the world and has growth plans for Ashling's development tools business which it intends to turn into an embedded systems development services business unit, Ashling said.
"Ashling is a very good fit for the NeST group," said Javad Hassan, chairman of NeST (
John Murphy, managing director of Ashling Microsystems said: "Becoming part of the NeST Group gives us the resources we need to significantly grow market share in real-time embedded development tools. We also see a large market for embedded software services and we are really looking forward to working with NeST to grow this business."
NeST becomes a Corporate Member of SEMI October 26, 2005
SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International), a global industry association, serving companies that develop and provide the manufacturing technology, materials and services to make semiconductors, flat panel displays (FPDs), microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and related microelectronics has recognized NeST as a software development services company and proclaimed Network Systems and Technologies (P) Ltd. as a Corporate Member of SEMI.
