Interactive Protocol Analyzer for Digital Protocol Signal Validation

Abstract or Demonstration Description: In an electronic system, most of the semiconductor chips present in it need to communicate with each other to make sure the system meets its functionalities. Each semiconductor chip would be manufactured and tested from different facilities under different methods. So, it becomes very important for the Validation engineers to validate the functionalities of the chips especially the digital communication at the system level. Particularly digital communication validation becomes a challenging job of ensuring that their devices are communicating correctly in all cases. It includes analyzing the digital protocols, interpreting the protocol message, protocol parameters and signal quality and verifying if all meet the needs using a logic analyzer or an oscilloscope.

In addition to the manual work, this also requires a very strong understanding of the digital protocol to properly analyze and decode. These tasks can become very time-consuming and prone to human analysis errors.

The Soliton Protocol Analyzer, which is based on the oscilloscope is an interactive and easy-to-use protocol analyzer on the NI's Instrument Studio platform. It helps the Validation Engineers to capture the protocol signals from the bus, automatically decodes the message and electrical parameters and presents it to the user. Users can verify the Signal Reliability and Quality easily without any additional effort with this product.