Since 1979, Solstice-TDS has been used by generations of test engineers. Solstice-TDS established many standard formats and methodoglies. WGL was Solstice-TDS's contribution to the industry, and has been used as the primary standard test interface language by ATPG tools before STIL. Flow-based conversion methodology has been standardized in many top electronics firms.
Functional patterns in the form of VCD or EVCD can be cyclized automatically using Solstice-TDS's Waveform Analysis Tool (WAT).
The WAT analyses all events in the VCD/EVCD thoroughly to ensure no critical transitions are missing or ommitted (as many "sampling" based tools often do. Click here to see a white paper on Sampling Simulation Files Loses Designer's Intent).
TDS maintains a robust random access database which is optimal in data conditioning and acccessing. Enterprise users enjoy a seamless way to partition pattern conversion tasks.
Input files of different formats (VCD, EVCD, WGL, STIL, or others) are converted (or normalized) to a Solstice-TDS database. The database then can be viewed, edited, merged using Solstice-TDS Wavemaker's timing, signal, and pattern editors.
Targeting many different ATE formats can start at the database for time saving and guaranteeing data integrity.
Many other point-to-point conversion tools on the market often repeat parsing each input file from scratch when new settings or even minor data adjusting are required.
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Solstice-TDS database is supplied with a rich set of operations such as: merge, concat, pattern replace, strobe edit, scan flatten, and much more. This enables test engineer to supplement their ATPG or functional patterns with additional protocol patterns, instrument control patterns, IDDQ, or mixed-signal analog measurement patterns.。
Using an intuitive flow-based capability, Solstice-TDS users create a conversion flow that is self-documented and can be executed in a batch operation.
The flow-based scenario describes precisely the process without the need to learn or risk making typo errors as with proprietary keywords and syntax in other tools. Solstice-TDS's new WaveMaker+ is so easy to use that new or casual users can be productive almost instantly. Saved scenarios can be archived or shared among project groups or for re-use in new projects.
Design and test engineers use Solstice-TDS for seamless integration with their in-house development programs.
The drop-down menu is a plug-n-play architecture. Customers can add proprietary tools to the menu for a central platform to access Perl scripts, internal apps, Unix commands, API apps, and other commercial tools.