Abstract or Demonstration Description: Semiconductor chips are becoming more intelligent, thereby increasing the amount of data transfer as well. This has also paved the way for the evolution of digital communication protocols. The complexity of those protocol interfaces is also equally growing. As the complexity of the protocol and product increases, the need for testing the protocol compliance and interoperability of the device becomes an essential process. It becomes critical and decides the success and longevity of a product in the market. The following reasons substantiate this, 1. Validation ensures the interoperability of the product with other devices in the market. 2. Helps us understand the threshold limits of various parameters of the device. 3. Captures the bugs that might have been missed during design verification. Given such a case, it becomes inevitable for validation teams to test the digital interfaces beyond the functional compliance tests and validate all characteristics (functional, voltage, and timing) as listed below, even for the worst-case scenarios unlike performing only basic functional tests traditionally. 1. Stressing and verifying the electrical parameters of the protocol interface 2. Validating the different types of functional tests like, interrupt generation, etc. 3. Performing Fault reliability and Error recovery tests This will take more and more time in the scale of a few weeks. Moreover, it is not the core job of the validation engineers to do test system development and Maintenance. Having a turn-key test system will help in reducing time, cost and ensure product quality PVS (Protocol Validation Solutions) from Soliton Technologies is a turnkey solution that leverages ATE class instrumentation to provide a complete compliance validation for your digital protocols and eliminates the need for a huge amount of effort, time, and cost. The solution will support protocols like I2C, SPI, MIPI I3C®, etc. Rapidly advancing sophistication in digital protocols calls for immediate solutions that can help accelerate the validation process, ensuring that the best devices reach the user at the right time. The PVS tool is one such solution that can take you one step closer to making this entire validation process easier and effortless.
