Product Details
The Power Management Bus (PMBus) is an open standard power-management protocol. This flexible and highly versatile standard allows for communication between devices based on both analog and digital technologies, and provides true interoperability, which will reduce design complexity and shorten time to market for power system designers.
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, validation time of the protocol interfaces also increases which in turn reduces the RTM. Performing the protocol conformance testing in traditional way needs lot of time and effort.
Soliton’s PMBus Validation Suite is an off the shelf validation tool using NI’s PXI Platform, which helps to validate the devices’ compliance with timing and electrical specifications of the PMBus protocol. The tool can also validate the devices tolerance to and recovery from a variety of PMBus faults & exceptions and provides a comprehensive set of reports. Users have claimed that, using this automated solution for PMBus Validation has brought down the test time/ validation time from few weeks to a couple of days.
The high level architecture of the Soliton PMBus Validation Suite based on NI’s PXIe 657x Platform
Technical Documentation
Soliton’s PMBus 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 PMBus 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 PMBus Validation Suite Software compatible with Windows OS (Win 10)
Hardware
Soliton’s PMBus Validation suite is based on the NI – PXI Platform and the NI part configuration lists the hardware required to perform the validation
Support & Training
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TYPICAL USER BASE FOR PMBus 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 PMBus interface
- Semiconductor Chip Manufacturers making PMBus Devices
- Product Manufactures making products with PMBus interface
- AC/DC Server Power Supplies, Point of Loads (PoL), DC-DC Power Modules, SMPS Unit Manufacturers who need to test against PMBus specifications