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July, 2018

Test and Verification Solutions

T&VS ODC Capabilities

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Our Services and Products

Services

Hardware Verification DfT Software Testing Consultancy Training

Engagement options

Resource Augmentation

Managed Service

Offshore Development Centre (ODC)

Location

Onsite Blended Offshore

Products

asureSignTM asureVIPTM


India

UK

Germany

Singapore

South Korea

USA

Japan

Sweden

Italy

Malaysia

APAC

EuropeAmericas

Growth Story

Global presence in all high-end technology locations

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Delivered values

▪ Lower development costs and faster time-to-market• “T&VS engineers saved 2 months on our 12 month schedule, and reduced our costs by

20%”

Steve Neill, Managing Director of Infineon UK

▪ Improved product features• “T&VS had the knowledge, skills and experience to ramp up quickly and help perform an

independent verification of the Gnodal design.”

Fred Homewood, CEO Gnodal

▪ Improved quality• "T&VS staff introduced independence into our signoff procedure. This has had a big impact

on the quality of ClearSpeed products.”

Russell David, VP Engineering at ClearSpeed

▪ Faster time-to-market• “T&VS didn’t let us down. They quickly grasped the software design and provided us with

an effective and efficient way forward for software unit testing.”

Craig Gulliford, CEO Creo Medical


Silicon to Software Support

Firmware

DFT

ATE

Security Testing

Pre - Silicon Post - Silicon Software

Architectural Modeling

IP/Subsystem/SoC

Verification

Emulation &

Prototyping

Post-Silicon Validation

Embedded SW Testing

Application/Network Testing

Conformance Testing

Carrier Acceptance Testing


ODC Capabilities Snapshot

Technical Capabilities ODC Client

Simulation Based Verification

Project and Relationship Management

Verification Flow

▪ Feature Extraction

▪ Verification Plan

o Checkers

o Functional Coverage

▪ Test Bench Implementation

▪ Verification Execution

o Coverage Reports

o Failing Test Count

o Bug Tracking

▪ Signoff

SoC

Block n

Block n

Block Level

Verification

Valued Added Services Productivity Tools

▪ asureSIGN

▪ VIP

▪ Register Modelling

▪ Run Manager

Industry Verticals

▪ Retail

▪ IoT

▪ Networking

▪ Automotive

▪ Consumer

▪ Industrial

▪ Medical

▪ 5G and comms

Per Project Roles

Project Manager

Team Lead 1 Team Lead 2 Team Lead n

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Senior Management

Program Manager

Senior Management

Escalation Planning

Facilities

▪ Security

Checks

▪ T&VS Servers

▪ Secure Access

Geographies

▪ APAC

▪ Europe

▪ North America

Project Manager

Technical Lead

T&VS

Onsite Staff

Program Manager

Senior Management

Programs

Forecasting

Reporting

Technical

Communication

Escalation Planning

Per Project Roles

Technical Lead

▪ System C Modelling

▪ Analog Modelling

▪ Emulation

▪ Prototyping

▪ Formal Methods

▪ DFT

▪ Gate Level

▪ Safety Verification

▪ Security Verification

▪ Portable Stimulus

▪ Post Si- Validation

▪ Software testing


Benefits of a T&VS ODC

▪ Save costs

▪ Reduce timescales

▪ Reduce risks

▪ Provide access to skilled test and verification resources

▪ Leverage experienced project management talent

▪ Enable the use of the latest tools, processes and methodologies

▪ Operate in a secure state-of-the-art IT and office environment

▪ Gain new insights based on independent expertise

▪ Provide high-quality, pro-active and professional project control

▪ Enable quick access to local contacts in the USA, Europe, India and APAC

▪ Remove the barriers you face in successfully completing your projects on time, on budget and right first time.


ODC DfT capabilities & setup

Experience Levels of Resources

• Headed by 20 yrs of Industry experienced professional

• Average level of experience 3-4 yrs

• Every ODC program is lead by 6-8 years experienced Lead and 2-4 yrs of experienced professionals.

• Periodic reviews and Checklist based sign-offs

Expertise Levels of Resources

• The expertise on DfTvaries from Multi millongates to few thousand gates of devices.

• Leads are with a skill of architecting DfT for SoC

• The senior resources have seen few tape outs.

• The junior resources are trained with T&VS DfTflows with commercial EDA Tools.

• Resources are responsible and independent to handle front end and DfT tasks.

EDA Capabilities

• Mentor Graphics DfTsolutions

• Tessent MBIST

• Tessent TestKompress

• Questa

• Synopsys DfT Solutions

• SMS

• DFTMAX

• DC

• DFT Compiler

• Cadence DfT Solutions

• Genus

• Modus


ODC Security and Infrastructure

▪ Using T&VS Servers

▪ Physical Isolation▪ Biometric or RF card access

▪ Surveillance Camera

▪ No Printers

▪ Dedicated Phone Lines

▪ Dedicated Admin

▪ Server Isolation

▪ Network Isolation▪ Dedicated Line

▪ LAN Separation

▪ Sonic Firewall

▪ Secure VPN

▪ Document Sharing

▪ Bug Filing

▪ Using Customers Servers

▪ Connection▪ Secure VPN

▪ VNC Client or NXClient

▪ Physical Isolation▪ Dedicated Conference Bridge Line

▪ Dedicated Admin

▪ Dedicated Server

▪ Network Isolation▪ Document Sharing

▪ Bug Filing


ODC Facility Infrastructure & Network Infra Setup

Dell Server

• Intel Xeon E5-2420 @ 1.90 GHZ

• 8*8 GB RAM with 24 Processor

• Redhat 5 (64 bit)

• Supports asureSign, Cadence, Questa, Xilinx, Quartus,

• Imperas, DVM, Synplify-Pro, Altera

• 10 to 12 users able to run Blocklevel Testcases at same time

• 5 to 7 users able to run chip verification at same time

License Server

• Intel Dual-core E5700 @ 3.00.GHZ.

• 4 GB RAM.

• Installed Fedora 15 (64 bit).

• Configured all license file in same location.

• License fetched through environmental variable and Router IP Nat.

CVS Server

• AMD Phenom II 810

• 4 GB Ram with 4 Processor

• Redhat 5 (64 Bit)

• CVS repository: I2C, I2S, UVM, UVM_I2C, UVM_SPDIF. SPI, TDM_EVC

• Fetch CVS via Router IP Nat.

Internet

License ServerReserved for user by name

Local User Machines


Experienced Project Management

Finding project managers and team leaders with the right experience

to work on complex designs with fast changing requirements and tight

development schedules can be a challenge. Our talented pool of

project management professionals provide each ODC with the vital

element that will reduce risk and ensure the success of your project.

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Mike BartleyT&VS Founder and CEO


T&VS ODC – Key Business Drivers

▪ Cost Savings▪ “TVS engineers saved 2 months on our 12

month schedule, and reduced our costs by 20%”. Steve Neill, Managing Director of Infineon UK

▪ Resource flexibility▪ “TVS provided the OVM-compliant

verification IP on schedule and to budget, and were flexible enough to incorporate change requests.” Simon Knowles, VP for Strategy & DXP Technology, ICERA

▪ Increased quality of deliverables▪ “TVS helped us incorporate the VIP into

our test environment in good time for our tape-out and left us with complete documentation to allow us to repeat the work should we ever need to on a future generation of our technology.” Fred Homewood, CEO of Gnodal

Faster time-to-market

Improved quality/reduced product risk

Lower development

costs

Improved product features

Trusted partner


List of ODCs

ODC Name Scope of Work Duration

Rotork IoT Security Testing for Manufacturer in the Oil & Gas Industry 30 days

Bluwireless Improving IP quality using SystemC-based UVM 3 years

Ericsson CPU Verification 1 year

Ultra Controls Analyzed software requirements for DO-178B standards compliance 4 months

Graphix Asset Security Improvements for a Complex Health Care Application 6 months

Creo Medical T&VS helps Creo Medical Prepare for Medical Device Certification 3 months

IMG Sub block verification of Power VR GPU Processor 1 year

Infineon Requirements Management and Traceability 4 years

Saadhvi Automate testing of location aware workforce management mobile app

3 months

Mir Limited Mobile app, Web application testing & Web services testing 7 months


List of ODCs (continued)

ODC Name Scope of Work Duration

Helitune DO254 compliant verification plan, test bench and coverage closure 6 months

IGCAR RTL and VIP development for PCI 32 6 months

Calsoft Verification of DDR/LPPDR Memory 9 months

ST Micro Analog Modelling 15 months

ST Micro SoC Verification 12 months

ST Micro IP Verification 9 months

ST Micro Design Front End & DfT (ECO in RTL, Synthesis, Formal Verification, Scan Insertion – compression/regular, ATPG, pattern simulation (also with sdf), MBIST insertion and simulations, Functional Fault Grading)

6 months

DO-254 HUD Verification for LIEOE 2 years

Pactron SV based BFM developed to generate DDR4 transactions and to verify MEI block.

6 months

Telechips SoC Subsystem level Verification 1 year

LG LPDDR4 PHY Verification 1 year

July, 2018

Test and Verification Solutions

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