Mistral’s product design expertise enhances Kopin’s Golden-i™ Developers Kit 

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Leveraging its proficiency with TI’s OMAP3530 processor to design an ultra-small footprint wireless, natural speech, “hands-free” headset with near eye virtual 15’ PC display

February, 2010
Mistral Solutions, a leading provider of technology solutions and professional services in the embedded space, today congratulates Kopin™ Corporation on the launch of their Golden-i™ platform and is happy to be a strategic partner in the development of this game changing product that is set to redefine mobile computing and communication.

Kopin, a leader in micro displays for consumer and military applications, contracted Mistral to be a part of this prestigious project, drawing on Mistral’s extensive experience with OMAP35x processors from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). Mistral collaborated with TI on the OMAP35x evaluation module (EVM) and is one of the most popular development platforms for OMAP-based product development. It has been a starting point for Mistral to build development partnerships with various customers.

Golden-i™ is a light-weight headset (three to six ounces) that provides both wireless Bluetooth/WiFi connectivity with a near-eye virtual 15-inch PC display that facilitates spontaneous, hands-free mobile communication and computing. Golden-i™ integrates advanced voice/gesture recognition technology, allowing users to remotely control up to seven independent devices and networks at one time – cell phones, handhelds, PC’s, industrial and enterprise systems.

For the Golden-i™ project, the team at Mistral integrated the powerful OMAP3530 processor, with WiFi, Bluetooth and various other peripherals, along with the Kopin’s micro display to deliver an optimized solution in a low-power, ultra-small form-factor design. The team also developed an automated test suite for hardware design validation and manufacturing test.

Being a single source for hardware and software expertise, Mistral offers its customers, custom design services expertise that helps customers save on valuable development time and costs. Mistral's professional services include:

* Hardware design including development boards, reference designs and form-factor product designs
* Operating system porting with embedded Linux, Windows® Embedded CE®, Android and related board support package (BSP) and device driver development.
* Middleware integration supporting integration of DSP codecs, Bluetooth stacks, Wireless LAN stacks and other middleware.
* Embedded application integration building end devices that integrate hardware and software features into a compelling product

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

”On-time and on-budget development especially for a portable platform as complicated as the Golden-i™ headset is so very important,” explains Jeffrey Jacobsen, Kopin Corporation, Sr. Advisor to the CEO and Golden-i™ Program Manager. “Golden-i’s development is a global multi-national endeavor. Working with many of the world’s best technology, component and software companies, Kopin required the most knowledgeable and experienced hardware integrator with advanced low power system experience – that’s Mistral. Mistral is a phenomenally well organized, accommodating and flexible hardware design integrator. Like other Golden-i™ strategic partners, Mistral is the best in the world at what they do. Mistral’s contribution to Golden-i™ continues to be significant and started with fully functional first printed circuit board assemblies, on-time and on-budget.”

“Mistral is excited to be a strategic partner on Kopin’s development team for Golden-i™, a stunning new mobile platform. Golden-i™ leveraged our hardware expertise and mobile system integration. We believe that the Golden-i platform will take mobile computing to new heights,” said Anees Ahmed, President and CEO of Mistral Solutions.

Golden-i™ Dev Kits are now being shipped. Golden-i units will be available for demonstrations in Hall 8, Motorola’s booth #8A51 at the World Mobile Congress 2010 held in Barcelona, Spain, February 15th through 18th. Orders are being taken for Golden-i Developer Kits from the May production lot. For more information, visit http://www.kopin.com/golden-i/.

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About Kopin

Kopin Corporation produces lightweight, power-efficient, ultra-small liquid crystal displays and heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) that are revolutionizing the way people around the world see, hear and communicate. Kopin has shipped more than 30 million displays for a range of consumer and military applications including digital cameras, personal video eyewear, camcorders, thermal weapon sights and night vision systems. The company's unique HBTs, which help to enhance battery life, talk time and signal clarity, have been integrated into billions of wireless handsets as well as into WiFi, VoIP and high-speed Internet data transmission systems. Kopin's proprietary display and HBT technologies are protected by more than 300 global patents and patents pending. For more information, please visit Kopin's website at www.kopin.com.
The Golden-i concept is protected by Kopin’s patents and patents pending.

Kopin, CyberDisplay, Golden-i and The NanoSemiconductor Company are trademarks of Kopin Corporation. All other company names or product names are the trademarks of their respective owners.

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