Hardware validation platform for mobile interface standards enables at-speed validation
Customers adopting emerging and existing protocols like MIPI’s Unipro, CSI-2 and DSI, JEDEC’s UFS and SDA’s SD4.0 can now leverage Arasan’s platforms to jump start and speed up their pre-silicon, silicon and system validation and applications development. The hardware validation platforms enable early validation of a new interface by emulating the complementary device at the interface protocol level. Beyond this, it facilitates early application development for reference board designs and production testing, before complementary devices are available in silicon. Further in the product cycle, it acts as a reference platform to help root-cause any incompatibilities between the device under development and the silicon device it is communicating with.
Often, a developer of cutting edge silicon products with new standard interface protocols has no means of validating one’s design with complementary devices which themselves may be under development. When such complementary devices do become available, a full speed reference platform that faithfully adheres to the protocol and provides the accompanying software stacks is necessary to aid the bring up of a device trying to communicate with another for the first time, followed by rapid deployment of reference boards to OEM’s and production testing of the OEM’s end products.
The previous generations of these platforms address these challenges for interface protocols that require digital interfaces, like MIPI’s SLIMbus and HSI, and SDA’s SD3.0. Arasan delivers all these platforms with the hardware and software binaries, with rich runtime tracing and debug capabilities. The platform family extends these capabilities to complex protocols that require analog PHY layer interfaces like MIPI’s D-PHY and M-PHY, and SDA’s UHS-II. UFS and the upcoming MIPI LLI and CSI-3 are based on the MIPI Unipro link protocols, which are complex and multi-layered in both hardware and software. The Hardware Validation Platforms for SD4.0, CSI-2/DSI, Unipro and UFS will be available in Q1 of 2012.
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