Usually any industry involved with high technologies goes through the Product,Services and Product cycle.The cycle really represents the business attributes as the market matures from startup to mainstream and then fades off to get a replacement/substitute product.This cycle is also influenced by the disruptive technologies and inventions.In such times whole industry goes thru many changes in market place making Business Models turn on its heads.
One industry which keeps the innovation engine firing is the T&M products and services which helps churn out new products faster and accelerates time To Market TTM.T&M industry oftentimes defines new products and aids in design to form basis for "testability-design relationship".The Capex needed for designing these innovative products impacts these designs and vice-versa the testers cost etc gets raised per new design requirements.
India is experiencing this product innovation startup activity through various research organisations.Traditionally the CSIR and Defense R&D labs have contributed to these local IP creation.Now more than 800 MNCs are leveraging the local manpower infrastructure to design locally created products and services architechture.All these organisations are exploiting power of testing platforms in these diverse applications.The testers in these organisations have to test designs for "Conformance", Uniqueness of measurement,Accuracy and Quality.T&M here plays a crucial role in this regard.India hopes to create lot of local designs with new age T&M coming to its aid.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
T&M: Test Challenges in Embedded Chips for Telecom Devices
This current decade is facing proliferation of faster Devices and multi functional implementation on chips.The various functions are being offered by the same Mobile Phones simultaneously.It is a camera,Radio,Social networking platform,Video streaming device besides the basic phone!This can all happen if the embedded chips are having complex architecture on the same Silicon.And before this can be realised it needs to be passing thru Testing/Verification. How and whether we have the right testing approach?
Testing of these complex ICs is done more and more through Software Defined Test or SDT.So the idea is to separate as much as we can the hardware ecosystem of T&M from its Software.Since we want to achieve more and more from the same chip,we hit the physical limits defined by Moores Law (number of transistor doubling every Eighteen Months)the only way out being build the testability at every stage of design and manufacturing!
Since T&M technology has to be smarter and faster than chips under design,the testing challenge is met by NOT resorting to physical devices increase but resorting to use of Multi Core Processors and Programmable Gate arrays,or FPGA.This allows us to use the same IP generated (during Design Stages) to leverage in Manufacturing Testing,concurrently.Separation of hardware and software defined test in T&M is great enabler to design compact multifunctional chips and cheaper Quality and Multifunctional devices: Smartphones,Tablets et al.We can dream of having a Smartphone in less than $50, for instance!
Software defined test ( SDT) is driving these designs of new age smart chips and devices made with them.T&M Services are as usual getting challenged by the user and in turn leveraging new architectures to produce and test them in turn! Interesting Osmosi effect at work!
Testing of these complex ICs is done more and more through Software Defined Test or SDT.So the idea is to separate as much as we can the hardware ecosystem of T&M from its Software.Since we want to achieve more and more from the same chip,we hit the physical limits defined by Moores Law (number of transistor doubling every Eighteen Months)the only way out being build the testability at every stage of design and manufacturing!
Since T&M technology has to be smarter and faster than chips under design,the testing challenge is met by NOT resorting to physical devices increase but resorting to use of Multi Core Processors and Programmable Gate arrays,or FPGA.This allows us to use the same IP generated (during Design Stages) to leverage in Manufacturing Testing,concurrently.Separation of hardware and software defined test in T&M is great enabler to design compact multifunctional chips and cheaper Quality and Multifunctional devices: Smartphones,Tablets et al.We can dream of having a Smartphone in less than $50, for instance!
Software defined test ( SDT) is driving these designs of new age smart chips and devices made with them.T&M Services are as usual getting challenged by the user and in turn leveraging new architectures to produce and test them in turn! Interesting Osmosi effect at work!
Friday, March 2, 2012
T&M Impact in India: Mobility,Money,Medicare & Manufacturing!
T&M in India can impact and be impacted likewise by its M factor! The way the mobility is getting accelerated in our lives the T&M industry can get but impacted by them.Featurephones are being replaced by Smartphones and people are getting online even in rural India as well.The traditional services from the drab postal department-the Money Order has potential to be totally replaced by MMT or Mobile Money Transfer.Same goes true for other public services : the Medicare including Maternity related.
All this actually requires cheaper Smartphones, and newer innovative local apps and mass customisations.Local or localised standards and conformance/performance testing by the cheaper testers and field testing etc by even more inexpensive portables.Actually these designs of chips,hardwares have to come from India and these should be manufactured locally to really leverage the huge poential and latent demands.So another M factor Manufacturing comes into picture.Here repeatbility of measurement,productivity,quick test time and Money saving is important!
Where will all these inexpensive,portable,handheld,palmtop testers will get consumed.The Media industry will be one area where field testers should be absorbed in large numbers.My study on the demand elasticity,numbers of instruments and channels of distribution indicates that we CAN have a solid indigeneous powerhouse of an industry selling these testers in India.By way of illustration, a handheld portable Spectrum Analyser for Rs 5000 (up to L Band) and Rs 10000 (upto S band) at an annual demand of 50,000 qty is very feasible! We can extrapolate other instruments like Signal Generator, Power Meter and Signal Generators etc accordingly.
T&M Professionals and Entrepreneurs ! Do you see the opportunity here? If you feel No it is a pipe dream,please shoot a mail or phone in at +919810101238 T&M should be there in your entrepreneurial vision. Nano car or Chhotukool you remember!
All this actually requires cheaper Smartphones, and newer innovative local apps and mass customisations.Local or localised standards and conformance/performance testing by the cheaper testers and field testing etc by even more inexpensive portables.Actually these designs of chips,hardwares have to come from India and these should be manufactured locally to really leverage the huge poential and latent demands.So another M factor Manufacturing comes into picture.Here repeatbility of measurement,productivity,quick test time and Money saving is important!
Where will all these inexpensive,portable,handheld,palmtop testers will get consumed.The Media industry will be one area where field testers should be absorbed in large numbers.My study on the demand elasticity,numbers of instruments and channels of distribution indicates that we CAN have a solid indigeneous powerhouse of an industry selling these testers in India.By way of illustration, a handheld portable Spectrum Analyser for Rs 5000 (up to L Band) and Rs 10000 (upto S band) at an annual demand of 50,000 qty is very feasible! We can extrapolate other instruments like Signal Generator, Power Meter and Signal Generators etc accordingly.
T&M Professionals and Entrepreneurs ! Do you see the opportunity here? If you feel No it is a pipe dream,please shoot a mail or phone in at +919810101238 T&M should be there in your entrepreneurial vision. Nano car or Chhotukool you remember!
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