Mantaro's partner, WiPower, launches Wireless Power Mobile Design Kit.

Mantaro has been certified as a Premier Design Parter of Cymbet Corporation to provide design services for integrating their family of thin-film battery products and energy harvesting solutions.

Mantaro CTO, Gabe Mayo, selected as one of the five finalists in the Commercial Sector CIO/CTO of Year category for the 4th Annual Mid-Atlantic CIO&CTO Live Awards.

Mantaro Partners with Tilera to Support Customer Development of Tilera's Multicore Processors

Tilera® Corporation is the developer of the breakthrough Tile™ family of high-performance processors for the embedded market. Mantaro Product Development Services announces a partnership with Tilera and broadened capabilities to clients who seek to incorporate Tilera solutions in new product development for domestic and international markets.

Germantown, MD (September 22, 2009) - Mantaro, an embedded product development services firm, and Tilera, a leader in Multicore Processor technology, announced today a partnership to combine innovative technology and product development services to rapidly enable high performance computing solutions worldwide.

Tilera offers a range of multicore processors with significant performance and power efficiency advantages for networking, multimedia, and wireless infrastructure equipment. Tilera processors are used across multiple applications including network security, intrusion prevention, network monitoring, data compliance, DPI, L4-L7 services, video conferencing, IPTV distribution, VoD delivery, video transcoding, and wireless media gateways. The TILEPro™ processor mitigates the challenges of high power, cooling cost, and compute density by providing equipment manufacturers with 3-4x the performance and up to 5x the performance per watt of the nearest competitor.

Mantaro is working closely with Tilera to develop significant expertise and knowledge of their innovative technology. Companies interested in incorporating Tilera’s technology into their products can leverage Mantaro’s experience to quickly bring solutions to market.

“Tilera’s innovative, 64 core processors enable new high-end solutions as well as the migration of existing products that require greater scalability and performance,” said Gary Bean, Mantaro’s VP of Sales and Business Development. “We will initially leverage Tilera’s processors in our packet surveillance and medical imaging areas and fully expect it to transcend all of our engineering design services, enabling Mantaro to offer clients unique scale, speed, and computing power to differentiate their end products.”

“Leveraging Mantaro’s years of hardware and software design, and integration expertise allows Tilera to bring innovation to our customers,” said Vijay K. Aggarwal, Tilera’s Vice President of Business Development. “Partnering with Mantaro will increase our bandwidth to support a growing number of customers developing products in global commercial markets and the US based aerospace and defense sectors.”

The new partnership offers customers both innovative technology and a product development services firm that can design, embed, and integrate technology into electronic devices. From product conception to release to manufacturing, Mantaro is able to support any or all phases of development for Tilera’s technology.

About Tilera:
Tilera® Corporation is the industry leader in highly scalable general purpose multicore processors for networking, wireless, and multimedia infrastructure applications. Tilera's processors are based on its breakthrough iMesh™ architecture that scales to hundreds of RISC-based cores on a single chip. The distributed nature of Tilera's revolutionary architecture and the standards-based tools, including ANSI C/C++ compiler, GNU tools and Eclipse IDE, deliver an unprecedented combination of performance, power efficiency and programming flexibility. Tilera was founded in October 2004, and now provides two product families: TILE64™ processors and TILEPro™ processors. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with locations in Westborough, Mass., and Beijing.

About Mantaro Product Development Services:
Mantaro, founded in 2001, is a turnkey product development services firm located in Germantown, Maryland, that provides a full range of engineering design services to its clients. The technical staff comprises highly talented full-time professional engineers with a history of successful new product development and innovating design experience. Mantaro serves a variety of industries including Consumer, Government, Industrial, Medical, Telecommunications, Test & Measurement, and Transportation.

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Mantaro Partners with WiPower to Support Customer Development of Wireless Power Transfer Solutions

With the principles of magnetic induction to transfer power wirelessly and off-the-shelf components for easy integration, WiPower’s wireless power technology represents the latest generation of power transfer solutions. Mantaro Product Development Services announces a partnership with WiPower and broadened capabilities to clients who seek to incorporate innovative wireless power solutions in new product development for the international market.

Germantown, MD (September 10, 2009) - Mantaro, an embedded product development services firm, and WiPower, a leader in developing and licensing wireless power technology, announced today a partnership to bring innovative wireless power technology to electronic device and accessory manufacturers worldwide.

WiPower (pronounced “y-power”) uses the principles of magnetic induction to transfer power wirelessly to compatible portable electronic devices. The first and second generations of this technology focused on contact-less safety related applications (ex. toothbrush charger) and small form factor limited mobility devices (ex. Palm Pre’s Touchstone). WiPower’s technology represents the third and latest generation of capability, which can charge multiple devices simultaneously on a single transmitter without careful or precise alignment between the devices and charging pad. WiPower’s patent-pending system has been designed with common off-the-shelf components and a small receiver footprint that can be easily integrated into products. Customers can purchase evaluation units for testing on WiPower’s website.

Mantaro has worked closely with WiPower over the past year and has developed significant expertise and knowledge of the innovative technology. Companies interested in incorporating WiPower technology into their products can leverage Mantaro’s experience to quickly bring completely cordless charging solutions to market.

“WiPower’s innovative, inductive wireless power technology adds a totally new dimension to Mantaro’s Power Supply Design and Green Design services,” said Gary Bean, Mantaro’s VP of Sales and Business Development. “With the added ability to design, integrate, and re-license WiPower’s technology as part of our engineering design services, Mantaro will be able to offer clients unique wireless powered solutions to differentiate their end products.”

“Leveraging Mantaro’s years of hardware and software design, and integration expertise allows us to license our technology to a wider range of clients and help customers develop products that ‘cut the cord,’” said Rahul Razdan, WiPower CEO. “This partnership substantially increases bandwidth to support a growing number of customers developing wireless power solutions. It also allows WiPower to focus on the development of subsequent generations of the technology platform for military, medical, and commercial applications.”

The new partnership offers customers both innovative technology and a product development services firm that can design, embed, and integrate wireless power technology into electronic devices. From product conception to release to manufacturing, Mantaro is able to support any or all phases of development for WiPower’s technology.

About WiPower:
WiPower, founded in 2004, has developed an induction-based, close range power system that enables the charging of compatible devices when placed on top of the charging pad. WiPower’s system has the ability to charge multiple devices simultaneously that are placed in any position or orientation on the pad. For more information on the advantages of WiPower’s solution, please visit http://www.wipower.com/cadvantage.htm. WiPower has partnered with OEMs, accessory manufacturers and design firms, to bring wireless power to consumers in a variety of applications and industries. Headquartered in Altamonte Springs, Florida, the company has offices in Gainesville, Florida, and Boston, Massachusetts.

About Mantaro Product Development Services:
Mantaro, founded in 2001, is a turnkey product development services firm located in Germantown, Maryland, that provides a full range of engineering design services to its clients. The technical staff comprises highly talented full-time professional engineers with a history of successful new product development and innovating design experience. Mantaro serves a variety of industries including Consumer, Government, Industrial, Medical, Telecommunications, Test & Measurement, and Transportation.

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Mantaro Partners with Sparsense to Deliver High Performance
Digital Image and Signal Processing Solutions

Sparsense, the developer of a novel image and signal processing technology has joined forces with Mantaro, a turnkey product development services firm. The exclusive partnership will allow the development of various custom hardware algorithm accelerator platforms capable of advancing medical imaging and other applications. The new technology can be applied to MRI, MR video guided surgery, video multicast, noise elimination and pattern, handwriting, speaker, speech, and object recognition, and many other applications.

Germantown, MD (August 20, 2009) - Mantaro, an embedded product development services firm, and Sparsense, a recognized leader in developing and licensing image and signal processing technology, announced today an exclusive partnership to offer extremely high performance digital image processing services and solutions, such as 3D MRI processing accelerators for Real Time medical imaging applications.

Sparsense uses proprietary digital signal processing algorithms to improve the image quality of many types of sampled images. These algorithms allow undersampled or noisy images to produce image quality of systems with 10 times the samples. The resulting Sparsense processed images do not exhibit blurred edges when reconstructing them from noisy samples. The technology itself has broad applicability in the processing of various types of digital signals.

Mantaro has worked with Sparsense over the past year on the development of a powerful, custom hardware algorithm accelerator platform for use in medical imaging applications. Through the development process, Mantaro has gained significant expertise and knowledge of the Sparsense technology and other potential areas for its application. Companies interested in applying Sparsense technology to difficult image or signal processing applications can leverage Sparsense and Mantaro’s combined experience to develop tailored solutions.

“Sparsense’s signal processing algorithms are uniquely efficient in generating and processing sparse representations of signals,” said Gabriel Mayo, Mantaro’s Chief Technology Officer. “This technology will allow our customers to realize the benefits of a much higher performance image and signal processing platform for their applications.”

“Leveraging Mantaro’s high performance processing platform development expertise will allow us to deliver real time imaging and signal processing solutions to applications that are not possible on general purpose computing platforms,” explained Zsolt Palotai, PhD, Sparsense President. “The combination of Mantaro’s expertise and technology, along with Sparsense’s algorithms, will enable the development of many products that were not cost-effective before. One such product is a platform for minimally invasive surgery using MRI imaging. High-quality MR imaging at video speeds enables medical procedures that were previously not possible.”

Mantaro’s exclusive partnership with Sparsense will offer our customers a range of services, from custom algorithm development to the development of full image processing software and hardware systems that can deliver unmatched signal processing performance to customers who are building multimedia and industrial applications for health care and government applications.

Detailed information and a video presentation of Sparsense technology are available at the Mantaro website.

About Sparsense:
Sparsense, Inc. was launched in 2007 to develop and commercialize a novel signal processing technology that was invented by Zsolt Palotai, PhD. The company name is derived from the term "sparse sensing." The company's founders are Zsolt Palotai, PhD and Professor Andras Lorincz, who joined the venture as its Chief Technology Officer.

About Mantaro Product Development Services:
Mantaro, founded in 2001, is a turnkey product development services firm located in Germantown, MD that provides a full range of engineering design services to its clients. The technical staff comprises highly talented full-time professional engineers with a history of successful product development and innovating design experience. Mantaro serves a variety of industries including Consumer, Government, Industrial, Medical, Telecommunications, Test & Measurement, and Transportation. More information is available at the Mantaro website.

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David Wheeler and Nate Mackley of Mantaro to present at NI Week 2009

Germantown, MD (July 1, 2009) - David Wheeler and Nate Mackley of Mantaro will be presenting at NI Week 2009 in Austin, TX at 4:45pm August 4, 2009 in Room 13 A/B.

The presentation entitled, Porting a Legacy Control System to National Instruments PXI with LabWindows/CVI Real-Time, will provide a real world example of a factory control system that was ported from a Multibus architecture to the PXI platform.  This session will cover economic benefits of the conversion, reasons for choosing PXI and LabWindows/CVI Real-Time, how existing C software was ported, key lessons learned, and performance characteristics of the final system.

The presentation will be available for download on our Resources - Tech Talk page in mid-August.

Amulet and Mantaro Extend Product Design Partnership Based on Amulet’s Graphical User Interface Solutions

Collaboration merges Mantaro’s product design expertise with Amulet’s advanced chips and software for graphical user interface design and implementation.

Germantown, MD (June 4, 2009) – Amulet Technologies, a leader in graphical user interface (GUI) solutions, announced today that Mantaro, a product development services firm, became an official design partner for Amulet’s full range of GUI Chips and Software.

With Mantaro's knowledge of Amulet’s chipset and graphics tool set, along with experience in custom product development, Mantaro can offer a complete custom packaged solution for products that require a GUI interface. Mantaro's experience in developing a broad range of embedded systems along with Amulet’s Graphic OS chip will allow customers to quickly develop products with a feature rich graphical user interface.

“Mantaro’s experience in working with a wide range of industries from Consumer and Telecom to Industrial, Medical and Transportation strengthens Amulet’s GUI design support for customers in these vertical markets,” said Nicole Coleman, Amulet’s Marketing Director. “We have customers that require design support at various levels and are impressed by Mantaro’s full range of scalable product development services and talented engineers, who will assist joint customers that are looking for a complete product design down to support for the GUI implementation only.”

“Intuitive touchscreen user interfaces are in high demand these days and companies are looking for ways to quickly integrate them into many of their products,” said Kamal Kapadia, Mantaro’s Business Development Manager. “We are excited to offer our customers a quick and elegant solution for GUI implementation. Amulet’s cost effective, graphical user interface technology combined with Mantaro’s design expertise will create additional value for our customers.”

Amulet’s fully-integrated, single-chip GUI sub-system ICs offer a plug-and-play solution for any OEM wishing to add a color touch screen interface to its products. These GUI ICs include Amulet's embedded Graphical OSTM, which manages all graphics rendering and servicing of user interaction with external input devices such as touch buttons, sliders, or touch screens. This is all done independently of the system microcontroller; the embedded control code does not need to be re-written, and all the MCU's resources can be dedicated to the application. Amulet’s Graphical OSTM eliminates the need for conventional operating systems such as Win CE or Linux that would typically be required to run an interactive GUI.

About Amulet Technologies:
Founded in 1998, Amulet is a recognized industry leader in graphical user interface (GUI) solutions. Amulet’s unique Graphical OS in Silicon™ enables manufacturers to cost-effectively implement a visually appealing GUI into their products to enhance the end user’s experience. Amulet’s display solutions – which range from display controller chips to fully integrated modules – simplify the product development cycle by separating GUI development from the application’s development. This approach dramatically reduces time to market and overall system costs. More information can be found at the Amulet Technologies website.

About Mantaro Product Development Services:
Mantaro, founded in 2001, is a turnkey product development services firm located in Germantown, MD that provides a full range of engineering design services to its clients. The technical staff comprises highly talented full-time professional engineers with a history of successful product development and innovating design experience. Mantaro serves a variety of industries including Consumer, Government, Industrial, Medical, Telecommunications, Test & Measurement, and Transportation. More information is available at the Mantaro website.

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Qosmos Partners with Mantaro to Deliver
Next-Generation Cyber Security Solutions

Germantown, MD (March 31, 2009) – Mantaro Product Development Services (PDS), a major design services firm specialized in embedded systems, and Qosmos, the industry leader in network intelligence technology, have joined forces to enable next-generation cyber security solutions for the largest and most demanding IP Networks.

This partnership combines Qosmos network intelligence products with Mantaro’s extensive experience in hardware and software development to deliver turn-key cyber security solutions to US commercial and government sectors. A new breed of solutions is made possible by combining Mantaro’s experience in developing real-time systems and high speed communications solutions with Qosmos’ ability to extract fine-grained IP metadata. The solutions will enhance situational awareness and give cyber security specialists a complete view of network status and potential threats. This view allows them to take adequate preventive measures, protect network assets in real-time, and perform more accurate post-mortem analysis if an attack has occurred.

"We're excited to work with Qosmos to deliver next-generation cyber security solutions to our customers.” said Jeremy Parsons, President and CEO, Mantaro PDS. “Qosmos technology has a unique ability to drill down into IP network traffic, extract detailed information, and present it in a structured format for each communication session. This goes beyond traditional Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology which only provides visibility on packets; Qosmos network intelligence is the foundation for the new types of solutions required by organizations that need to protect mission-critical IP networks.”

Best practices in cyber security leverage IP metadata for enhanced protection. The rich set of information available with IP metadata will be used by Mantaro and Qosmos to build completely new types of intelligence solutions that give security professionals a better understanding of potential threats and thus a better ability to thwart them. With IP metadata, it is also possible to increase efficiency by implementing automatic detection of suspicious behavioral communication patterns and create real-time views of threats based on continuous streaming of metadata and network information.

"Mantaro's history of successful and innovative product development and design experience will add real value for network security customers," said Thibaut Bechetoille, CEO at Qosmos. "Their experience in building turn-key products for industries ranging from telecoms to the federal government makes them well-suited to deliver more powerful security solutions based on IP metadata analysis. By using Qosmos Network Intelligence building blocks, Mantaro can deliver these solutions quickly and efficiently across a range of applications.”

To learn more about the joint solutions, please visit www.mantaro.com/aboutus/qosmos.htm, or stop by the Mantaro booth #646 at Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley in San Jose (March 31 – April 2).

About Qosmos:
Qosmos provides software and hardware platforms that identify and extract information traveling over networks in real time with unparalleled precision and depth. Qosmos network intelligence technology enables a wide range of applications such as lawful interception, network protection, data retention, regulatory compliance, content-based billing, audience measurement and service optimization. Using Qosmos platforms, Network Equipment Manufacturers, Software Vendors and System Integrators can enhance their solutions with detailed intelligence to better monetize, optimize or protect networked information. For more information, go to www.qosmos.com

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Gary Bean Joins Mantaro Product Development Services
as VP of Sales and Business Development

Gary Bean has joined the Mantaro Product Development Services firm as the new Vice President of Sales and Business Development. His presence extends the firm’s continued commitment to long-term growth.

Germantown, MD (March, 2009) – Mantaro Product Development Services is expanding its presence with the hire of Gary Bean as Vice President of Sales and Business Development. The Maryland-based product design consulting firm provides embedded engineering design and consulting in a wide range of industries. “I am very pleased to have Gary join Mantaro as VP of Sales and Business Development. Gary’s extensive background and experience in building high technology organizations and taking companies to the next level will be a great asset to Mantaro,” says CEO Jeremy Parsons.

The collective experience of Mantaro’s custom product development staff of hardware and software designers provides applications expertise to consumer, telecommunications, government, industrial, medical, test and measurement, and transportation industries. Additionally, Mantaro partners with various leading industry technology providers, including hardware, software, and intellectual property suppliers.

“It is a privilege to join such a talented team and bring them forward to an industry leading position through accelerated and profitable growth,” says Gary Bean, who brings to Mantaro over twenty years of experience in building and managing sales and business development organizations. His expertise spans hardware, software, and services provided to commercial and government markets. During his tenure in the technology sector, he has been a key facilitator in $1.38 billion in acquisitions.

Mantaro’s list of technology design services includes embedded engineering, turnkey product development, analog/digital/RF hardware design, FPGA design services, Cyber security, sustaining engineering services, and green design services. “The leadership that Gary brings will allow us to expand our sales and business development capacity, providing Mantaro with continued growth opportunities and an expanded presence in the product development services industry,” asserts Parsons.

Those interested in Mantaro product development services, and sales/business development may visit Mantaro’s website or contact them by phone at 301-528-2244.

About Mantaro Product Development Services:
Mantaro builds close partnerships with every client and capitalizes on many years of collective experience working with industry leading companies that develop everything from semiconductors to consumer electronics. Headquartered in Germantown, Maryland, Mantaro provides custom product development services for any stage of the product life cycle from concept through full-scale production.

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