AMD Selects NEW JTAG Tool to Raise the Bar on Quality
Austin, Texas – March 24th, 2006 – SiliconAid Solutions, Inc. announced today that AMD (NYSE:AMD) has selected the SiliconAid’s JTV (JTAG verification) tool.
The JTV tool provides a robust verification environment to ensure that your verilog design with JTAG and your BSDL (Boundary Scan Description Language) are fully consistent and comply with the IEEE 1149.1 and 1149.6 standards.
"SiliconAid’s JTV JTAG tool has proven to be an extremely thorough and easy to use tool that provides excellent feedback. The transition was seamless and enabled us to continue important functionalities with virtually no interruption. As a result, we have a strong process driven by a great tool." - Tim Wood, AMD Fellow Complementary to an automated or custom JTAG design flow, JTV gives a quick, easy, and independent way to make sure your design is correct. JTV can output fault-simulated production test patterns and parametric tests. JTV is unique in its ability to verify that the chip design is JTAG-compliant and that the BSDL file accurately describes your JTAG design.
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NYSE: MENT), one of the leaders in electronic design automation (EDA) has selected SiliconAid Solutions as its preferred DFT consulting subcontractor.
"We have worked with SiliconAid over several years successfully with multiple customers and projects. As a result of their senior DFT staff and dedication to quality and customer satisfaction, we call these guys first” says Scott Thompson, Mentor Consulting Manager for Yield Enhancement Services . "We leverage Jim and his team of experts to help augment existing staff on delivering world class DFT solutions to Mentor's customer base. We would recommend SiliconAid Solutions, Inc. DFT services to any company needing expert DFT advice and implementation assistance."
"Intrinsity's 2GHz FastMATH™ Processor was completed on schedule employing simulation, verification and DFT design services from SiliconAid Solutions.", said Mike Becker, Director of Processor Design at Intrinsity Inc. "They quickly integrated into our team, added clear value and we wouldn't hesitate to use them again."
NEW JTAG Tool Improves BSDL Quality for Analog Devices’ Products
Austin, Texas – June 28, 2005 –SiliconAid Solutions
Inc. announced today that Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a leading manufacturer of high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital signal processing applications, selected the SiliconAid Solutions’ JTV (JTAG verification) tool to enable high quality JTAG boundary scan functions and accurate BSDL files.
In the past, a significant manual effort has been required to generate and then verify the
JTAG logic was correct. A custom testbench is generated to verify the boundary registers, TAP controller, and the associated connections. A BSDL file was generated but before JTV there was no formal or automated way to verify that the design actually matched the description in the BSDL file. Additionally, there was no automated way to verify that all modes of the JTAG where fully tested and that the device met the IEEE 1149.1 standard."JTV is a formal verification of the IEEE JTAG spec that saved the design teamsusing the tool countless months. As a result, the DSP and Digital Video Productsthat were developed with JTV have a high-quality JTAG boundary scan functionand customers are seeing higher quality BSDL files for these products. “JTV includesa boundary scan user's guide which is written in a clear and easy to understand stylethat teaches as well as guides the user about boundary scan design."” - Luis Basto, Senior DFT lead.“I've run thru all the boundary scan verification tests using SiliconAid's JTV tool. This is a very exhaustive list of about 20 separate tests that do everything one could consider with the boundary scan,” continued Mr. Basto.
• Fabless Mixed-Signal Start-Up
Our company is a small startup company developing mixed signal system on chip (SoC) ASICS. We brought in SiliconAid Solutions, Inc. to help evaluate our present design and recommend possible DFT solutions to lower the overall product cost for current and future designs.
SiliconAid Solutions, Inc. quickly evaluated our design and generated a report to describe the benefits, cost trade-offs, and design impacts of adding DFT to our present device. Their willingness to work with us and tailor a level of involvement that fits our needs was a big plus. Although we do not have dedicated DFT capability right now we expect to develop it and having SiliconAid Solutions available to help us improve our capability will be helpful.
We would recommend SiliconAid Solutions, Inc. DFT services to any company needing expert, unbiased, and independent DFT advice. We have found SiliconAid Solutions, Inc. personnel to be very knowledgeable in all areas of test and DFT techniques and design integration.
We would not hesitate to recommend SiliconAid Solutions, Inc. services to any company needing DFT expertise.
