Product Details
I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) is an asynchronous, 2-wire serial communication protocol. I2C Protocol is well suited for data transfer between ICs at relatively low speed. Its simple 2-wire interface simplifies IC design with fewer pins and smaller packages thus reducing the board space and cost. As a part of product validation, it’s important to validate the product’s conformance against the protocol specification to ensure the interoperability of the product.
As the complexity of the protocol and product increases, the validation time of the protocol interfaces also increases which in turn reduces the RTM. Performing the protocol conformance testing in the traditional way needs a lot of time and effort.
Soliton’s I2C Validation Suite is an off the shelf validation tool using NI’s PXI platform, which helps to validate the devices’ compliance with the timing and electrical specifications of the NXP I2C protocol. The tool can also validate the device’s tolerance to and recovery from a variety of I2C faults & exceptions and provides a comprehensive set of reports. Users have claimed that using this automated solution for I2C Validation has brought down the test time/ validation time from few days to few hours.
Peek and Poke GUI for interactive debug of the I2C interface. This helps to exercise and debug the I2C communication manually. User can configure any allowed timing/voltage parameters to debug the transactions.
Technical Documentation
Soliton's I2C Validation Suite is an off-the-shelf validation tool using NI's PXI platform, which helps to validate the devices' compliance with the timing and electrical specifications of the NXP I2C protocol. It contains the below components.
- NI PXIe 657x – Digital Pattern Generation Card with the PXIe Chassis setup
- Soliton PVS Interposer Board
- Oscilloscope – For performing voltage measurements
- Soliton I2C Validation Suite Software compatible with Windows OS (Win 10)
Hardware
Soliton’s I2C Validation suite is based on the NI – PXI Platform and the below NI part configuration lists the hardware required to perform the validation.
Support & Training
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TYPICAL USER BASE FOR I2C VALIDATION SUITE
- Design Engineers, Test Engineers, Post Silicon Validation Engineers, Engineering Managers, Validation Managers, Lab Managers, etc. from the Semiconductor Industry
- Post Silicon validation of Chips with I2C interface
- Semiconductor Chip Manufacturers making I2C Devices
- Companies making QSFP+ Pluggable Optical Transceivers used in optical fiber technology. These companies need to adhere to and test against the SFF-8679 specification which includes specs for the 2-wire I2C Interface. Hashtags: QSFP Protocol Validation, SFP Protocol Validation, QSFP Testing, SFP Testing, SFF Compliance, SFF-8679 Compliance.
- Companies making display devices that need to comply with and test against the I2C Bus specifications listed in DDC, DDC2B, DDC2Ab, DDC2B+, DDC2Bi, E-DDC standards. Hashtags: DDC Compliance, DDC2B Compliance, DDC2Ab Compliance, DDC2B+ Compliance, E-DDC Compliance, EDID Compliance, EDID physical layer validation
- SMPS Unit Manufacturers who need to test against PMBus, an evolution of the I2C Specification
- Memory, NVMe SSD Manufactures to test against SMBus Specifications
- 2-wire interface on ATCA Compliant controllers and devices
- 2- wire CCI interface between the camera sensor and mobile baseband processor
- Semiconductor Chip Manufactures make devices with a Two-wire interface