Product Details
The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a two-wire interface through which various system component chips can communicate with each other and with the rest of the system. It is based on the principles of operation of I2C. SMBus provides a control bus for the system to pass messages to and from devices instead of using individual control lines, helping to reduce pin count and system wires.
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 SMBus 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 SMBus protocol. The tool can also validate the devices tolerance to and recovery from a variety of SMBus faults & exceptions and provides a comprehensive set of reports. Users have claimed that using this automated solution for SMBus Validation has brought down the test time/ validation time from a few weeks to a couple of days.
The high level architecture of the Soliton SMBus Slave Validation Suite based on NI’s PXIe 657x Platform
Technical Documentation
Soliton’s SMBus 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 SMBus 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 SMBus Validation Suite Software compatible with Windows OS (Win 10)
Hardware
Soliton’s SMBus 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 SMBus 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 SMBus interface
- Semiconductor Chip Manufacturers making SMBus Devices
- Product Manufactures making products with SMBus interface
- Memory, NVMe SSD Manufacturers to test against SMBus Specifications
- Smart Battery System Manufacturers to test against SMBus Specifications