[SI-LIST] Partnering opportunities for experienced waveform integrity engineers
- From: "Mike Williams" <mike.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:48:17 -0500
Greetings,
On behalf of ASA Corp, I am extending to the SI List community a number of
opportunities to work with us. To begin, ASA would like to invite select
experienced signal-integrity practitioners to contribute to our Hidden
Anomaly Location technology (aka HAL). HAL operates in the background of our
M1 Oscilloscope Tools product and notifies the operator when it has
discovered any single occurrence of a large and hopefully complete range of
waveform fidelity issues, followed by providing a (hopefully) coherent
explanation of the issue and options available for dealing with that sort of
issue. Examples of the kinds of things HAL is looking for would be:
* A single edge going metastable in a 500,000 cycle record.
* Longer or shorter term non-stationarity, such as a change in the behavior
of a signal from one acquisition to the next, or from one part of an
acquisition to another part.
* etc.
A more thorough explanation of what HAL actually does is available at:
www.amherst-systems.com/hidden-anomaly-locator-hal.htm
Experienced signal-integrity practitioners that would like to contribute to
this technology can do so in the following way:
* Suggest ideas for new "agents" in HAL - agents are the things that scour
each new acquisition looking for problems. If you have an idea for something
that "needs finding"... or for a new or better way to define certain
specific undesirable waveform behaviors. Basically... what do you wish HAL
would find for YOU? We're open to suggestions only, or to partnering on
detailed technical development.
* Contribute to the Waveform Integrity Knowledgebase (WIK-B). It's kind of
like Wikipedia... only 12 year olds can't pretend they're Harvard
physicists... new contributions are reviewed before being put up. I've done
one myself so far on metastability
(http://www.amherst-systems.com/wikb/metastability-2.htm) and have others in
the works on non-stationarity and PLL issues.
My belief about the product is that ASA should contribute where we are
strong (clock and timing.. distribution... PLL issues, etc), and establish a
habitat for those with the skills we can't supply to contribute their
suggestions. We started this with built-in test automation actually, so
engineers wouldn't have to wait 9-12 months for compliance tests to finally
get written. The philosophy is the same with HAL and where HAL is going. The
things we're working on in HAL now are pretty cool from an expert system
point of view, and will definitely create further opportunities for
engineers to contribute and get credit for it.
For appropriately serious contributions, we'll feature the contributor on
the site and in our newsletter. We were very fortunate to have partnered
with my old friend Eric Bogatin in the kickoff of HAL. Eric documented
several signal-integrity anomalies for our launch and as one would expect,
his work was impeccable. For the right kind of contributor, there are
several opportunities to partner. And there are still other opportunities
beyond these. If you're interested and would like to discuss this further,
please email me at: mike dot williams at amherstsystems dot com.
I have also done a technology overview paper on this subject. If you'd like
to know more about the technology, please email for that too. Please do be
aware that that distribution of that document is very limited at this time
but it's not internal-only. Just protecting against all that "flattery" we
get:)
My events manager Kate has also asked me to pass on that if you have an
event (lecture, trade show, exhibit, podcast, etc) that would be of interest
to oscilloscope users, to email her at eventsmanager at amherst-systems
dot com. (Yes, there's a hyphen in hers but not mine).
Finally... since it's "Oscar season", I thought I'd leave with what I
believe is the only signal-integrity oriented film (short subject) in
existence... I'm so disappointed we didn't even get nominated:
http://www.amherst-systems.com/customer-interview.htm. Yea... I wish I went
to film school instead of screwing around with the same 20 clock problems
over and over for 25 years:)
Under the it-can't-be-commercial-if-you-don't-get-paid rule... if you're
buying a new high-end scope, you are entitled to get M1OT for free. Look for
the Cirrus Program on our web site. Take care... good luck with your SI
problems.
Thanks,
Mike Williams
Pres - ASA
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