Demonstrates technology that bridges pre-silicon and post-silicon
validation using IEEE 1149.1-2013
Informative Webinar to be held on September 24 and 25
NORTH READING, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Teradyne,
Inc. (NYSE: TER) and Intellitech
Corp. announced they have demonstrated an improvement in the silicon
validation time for System-on-a-Chip (SoC) devices. Engineering teams
from the two companies collaborated using the IEEE
1149.1-2013 standard with Teradyne’s UltraFLEX
digital instruments and Intellitech’s NEBULA
silicon debugger on a state-of-the-art SoC device. The IP cores in
the SoC device were debugged in hours rather than weeks by simplifying
engineers’ interaction with the IP cores through hierarchical access and
high-level commands. This approach also allowed pre-silicon simulation
and more compact test files compared to a traditional, vector-based
methodology.
“The high performance instruments our customers depend on to test their
semiconductor devices are powered by Teradyne designed, custom
integrated circuits (ICs). IP validation had been a consistent schedule
bottleneck in our new devices. The longer validation times, driven by
increasing numbers of IP blocks, had to be reduced in order to achieve
our time-to-market goals,” said Andre Hendarman, ASIC Development
Director, Teradyne. “By leveraging our strength in production ATE with
Intellitech’s advanced design-for-test tools, we achieved a significant
improvement in debug time. The collaboration between Intellitech
and Teradyne
created a unique opportunity to validate tests pre-silicon via
simulation, post-silicon on ATE using Teradyne’s Protocol Aware and
Concurrent Test features, and at the system level.”
"Customers striving to gain a time-to-market leap are now specifically
requesting that their IP vendors provide pre-verified IEEE
1149.1-2013 compliant documentation. They realize this new standard
for IP documentation, IEEE 1149.1 Procedural Description Language (PDL),
offers significant advantages in portability and reusability between the
pre-silicon verification environment and post silicon debug on the
UltraFLEX," said CJ Clark, CEO, Intellitech Corp. "With the same PDL
documentation and the same software interface, many variables normally
presented to the engineer during traditional silicon bring-up, were
eliminated.”
“This technology will change how design and test teams communicate about
test implementation. It represents a new paradigm for our industry - a
partnership between IP vendors, fabless designers and ATE vendors to
reduce development time for complex devices. Teradyne will co-host a
webinar to discuss the advantages and experience to date with this new
technology,” added Keith Thomas, Teradyne Software Marketing Manager.
Two web seminars that describe the technology have been planned. Session
1 will be held on Thursday, Sept. 24 at 11 a.m. (EDT) and Session
2 will be held on Friday, Sept. 25 at 9 a.m. (Singapore time - SGT).
For information about how to join these sessions, go to http://teradyne.com/press-room/events-conferences.
About Intellitech
Intellitech
is the technology leader in solutions based on IEEE 1149.x related
standards. The company is sought out by customers to provide
methodologies, IP and tools which lower a customer's cost in developing
or manufacturing an electronic product. More information about
Intellitech can be found at www.intellitech.com.
Intellitech is a registered trademark of Intellitech Corp. in the U.S.,
E.U. and other countries. Silicon Instruments and NEBULA are trademarks
of Intellitech Corp.
About Teradyne
Teradyne
(NYSE:TER) is a leading supplier of automation solutions for test and
industrial applications. Teradyne Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) is used
to test semiconductors, wireless products, data storage and complex
electronic systems, which serve consumer, communications, industrial and
government customers. Our Industrial Automation solutions include
Collaborative Robots used by global manufacturing and light industrial
customers to improve quality and increase manufacturing efficiency. In
2014, Teradyne had revenue of $1.65 billion and currently employs
approximately 4,000 people worldwide. For more information, visit www.teradyne.com.
Teradyne (R) is a registered trademark of Teradyne, Inc. in the U.S. and
other countries.
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Teradyne
Jessica Faulkner, 978-370-1437
jessica.faulkner@teradyne.com
or
Intellitech
Kareen
Lefoley, 603-750-7116 x 106
klefoley@intellitech.com
Source: Teradyne, Inc.
