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- February 24, 2025

Case Study
Pre & Post Silicon Validation for Multicore ARM Network SoC

Client
ARM based Network SoC with PCIe, NAND, DDR SPI, QSPI and DMA Controller for a Global supplier of a broad range of digital and analog semiconductor connectivity solutions
Challenges
• Post and Pre silicon functional validation of multiple peripherals such as PCIe Gen2, NAND, DDR, SPI, QSPI, DMA Controller and Cache Coherency module
• PVT and power characterization tests
• Test automation
Solution
▪ Multi- year engagement spanning multiple variants
▪ Multi master coherent architecture aware validation
▪ Full ownership from test plan to debugging
▪ Development of Bare metal test cases for validation
▪ Bus transaction level debugging in emulation environment

Tools/Technologies
• PCIe exerciser and analyzer, PVT setup with thermal head
• Emulator and Silicon validation board
• Network traffic generator
• C/C++ based test case, Python Automation