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Accelerating the Validation Workflow

As innovation drives increased complexity in new product development, validation teams struggle to keep pace with longer design cycles, more extensive testing, and aggressive time-to-market schedules. Validation is a crucial part of the development process; it ensures design specifications are met—and is the last chance to find defects before production. But validation workflows can be disconnected and lack efficient automation which can create costly delays in development.

 

Validation engineers need to:

 

  • Streamline and connect validation from interactive bring-up measurements through automation and debug
  • Integrate hardware and software from various vendors
  • Support open source and commonly used programming languages like Python, C#, and NI LabVIEW
  • Minimize code development
  • Focus time and resources on the test, not the infrastructure needed to implement

Software Framework

  • Integrate custom measurements with a connected validation framework to streamline workflows
  • Build measurements only once in the API of your choice 
  • Develop measurement plug-ins faster with the free Measurement Plug-In Software Development Kit for LabVIEW and Python
  • Use measurement plug-ins interactively in NI InstrumentStudio™ for device bring-up
  • Leverage the same code, parameters, and configurations in NI TestStand for powerful automation during characterization
  • Create custom plug-ins for unique measurements that can be integrated into interactive and automated measurements

Solution Advantages

  • Leverages a common framework to enable validation and verification teams to spend more time on core validation activities

  • Reduces software development time through DUT-centric, low-to-no-code approaches

  • Ensures measurement correlation by using the same IP throughout validation

  • Integrates workflows by connecting interactive bring-up measurements to automated characterization

  • Saves time and effort in validation, increases efficiency of validation and verification teams, and considerably shortens time to market

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Soliton Technologies provides highly differentiated engineering services to NI’s global semiconductor customers. As experts using NI hardware and software, Soliton can customize and expand the Measurement Plug-In SDK for custom measurement capabilities to meet your application requirements.

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Accelerating the Validation Workflow

​Learn more about NI’s open and customizable approach to validation workflows using the Measurement Plug-In SDK and how this can improve the efficiency of validation teams.