Solution Enables Silicon Bring-Up without Access to Automatic Test Equipment
About Silicon Insight
Silicon Insight Desktop provides comprehensive, at-speed, SoC device-level debug and characterization using a PC laptop connected to a device performance board through a USB-to-JTAG cable interface. The latest release of Silicon Insight adds support for GPIB-based benchtop equipment, enabling design and test engineers to also perform voltage and frequency based characterization from the same laptop PC environment. Silicon Insight now makes it possible to perform full device debug, diagnostics, and characterization without the need to access or tie-up expensive automatic test equipment.
On the production floor, Silicon Insight now adds the option to perform automated production data logging, enabling product engineering teams and their foundry partners to analyze detailed failure and performance data. The production data log can be used with LogicVision's Yield Insight(TM) tool to identify systemic yield-limiting issues and help accelerate product yield ramps.
Interactive Demonstrations
LogicVision will be showcasing two interactive Silicon Insight Desktop demonstrations at this year's DAC conference. The first will highlight real- time detailed characterization of memory and logic within a customer's 65nm SOC device. Using an easy-to-use graphical interface, characterization activities such as measuring the frequency response of individual memories and determining which individual flip-flops are fed by the most-critical paths will be demonstrated. The second demonstration will show how jitter and jitter tolerance parameters of a 6.2 Gbps SerDes channel can be measured to sub- picosecond accuracy. The repeatability of these measurements will be shown as well as their strong correlation to expensive benchtop equipment.
About LogicVision Inc.
LogicVision (NASDAQ: LGVN) provides proprietary technologies for embedded test and yield learning that enable more efficient manufacturing test of complex semiconductors. LogicVision's embedded test solutions allow integrated circuit designers to embed test functionality into a semiconductor design that is used during semiconductor production test and throughout the useful life of the chip. The company's advanced Design for Test (DFT) product line, ETCreate(TM), works together with Silicon Insight(TM) applications and Yield Insight(TM) to improve profit margins by reducing device field returns and test costs, accelerating silicon bring-up times and shortening both time to market and time to yield. For more information on the company and its products, please visit the LogicVision website at www.logicvision.com
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