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 Global’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 Global 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