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High Speed Trace Probe

High Speed Trace Probe

Scope

Ownership for the complete product development

Electronics Hardware – design development & Prototyping
Mechanical – Enclosure design both plastic and sheet metal
Software – Embedded firmware, drivers, middleware, application and HMI
PC Suite – Eclipse based IDE development • Certification – EMC / EMI and CE certification

Solution

Leverage QuEST’s expertise in end-to-end product development (HW, FPGA, SW, Mechanical and Certification)

Analyzed technical and market requirements to identify use cases preparing detailed specifications
Worked closely with customer team to take market inputs
Clever design partition for a universal/general master unit and simpler adapter units to support different target processors (ARM, Power, MIPS)

Benefits

Enabled customer to introduce a next generation product with cutting edge features, into the market ahead of competition
With end to end engineering service capabilities, QuEST was able to help the customer from concept to productization

Results

Delivered a fully functional unit in 12 months.
Improved market share with introduction of this product

Features

Used SERDES in FPGA for high speed(@400 MHz DDR) trace capture
Integrated DDR3 controller for data buffering
PCIe connectivity between FPGA board & internal processor board
Implemented complex clock de-skew logic to compensate for skew generated at target board
Internal HDD for seamless storage of trace data.
Complex design using state-of-the-art Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA (IO freq: 3.2 GHz over GTX lines and 400MHz over SERDES, Core freq: 250MHz) & 32-bit 1.2GHz ARM core

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