Product Managers

Lab and customer trials have shown that the DV Notebook results in faster time-to-market, lower costs, and reduced risk. The software can lower a project budget by making the most of every resource. Important gains are achieved by reducing wasted time in engineering and reducing the amount of expensive equipment needed to achieve high confidence.

The software goes beyond the engineering environment, and provides simple ways to capture direct input from product architects, field support staff, and marketing teams. This increases understanding and collaboration across teams.

In all, projects become more lean and agile. Greater information leads to better decision making and a more effective management environment. Ultimately, the software allows managers to visualize the completeness and readiness of the product for sale or use in the market. The DV Notebook provides increased clarity and accountability for engineers, architects, and managers alike.

Marketing

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Your customers are already planning how to use, deploy, and configure your product. The DV Notebook allows you to speak your customers' language and help in that planning.

Every customer collects data differently and only some of it is available to share with suppliers. Some customers use spreadsheets, some collect error reports, others capture log files. The DV Notebook can read these different forms and bring important data into the product design and verification process.

Architects and Technical Leaders

The DV Notebook lets engineers, technical leaders, and managers bring together large amounts of dynamic data.

Architects use information from many sources including requirements, performance analyses, and engineering cost estimates. The DV Notebook can help in organizing all of it, no matter how fast the project is moving.

Using an innovative BNF-like language, users can specify both the rules for reading a file as well as the structure of the extracted data.

With only 10-30 minutes of configuration, the DV Notebook can automatically start collecting the desired data from the desired sources and storing it in organized and efficient database structures. Dashboards can be easily mashed up using wiki, web pages and graphing, and are immediately available to visualize your data.

Hardware Design Manager

The DV Notebook saves you time by organizing all of your key information in one spot. Managers create a dashboard to view activity on every module of a design in real-time. This saves managers hours per week by collecting status automatically.

This tool is great for engineering managers that are responsible for multiple projects, and is especially useful for monitoring remote teams. The tools allow managers to automatically collect key results and milestones and quickly organize them in a fashion that is great for presenting at status meetings. With the DV Notebook, there is no need to spend significant time in preparing for status presentations.

The DV Notebook easily allows for any combination of data into one organized structure from multiple tools that do not share compatible data formats. This collection of pertinent data can then be stored in a organized structured fashion. The exact nature of the organization is at the full discretion of the user.

Hardware Verification Manager

Verification is synonymous with complexity. The DV Notebook provides an information infrastructure to organize and tame that complexity. This increases the quality of the result and reduces costs.

Testing dashboards publish activity and results in a form that is easy to read and comprehend. The DV Notebook allows engineers to collect important data from multiple sources, and focusing on the relevant pieces.

The increasing complexity of products and required services places a heavy load on the testing resources of most companies. Successful verification leads to successful products. Organizing verification status and results increases cross-department comprehension of issues and resolutions to avoid costly re-occurrences of problems. The data can be test plans, test descriptions, test characteristics, test parameters, test results, regression summaries, etc.

Be sure to look at the DV Notebook SF to learn how to go beyond the DV Notebook and generate tests to close coverage.

Software Managers

Software managers are responsible for building teams and managing schedules for the bring-up of new networking hardware with a long list of features. These managers are measured by their predictability, foresight, speed, and reliability in delivering and rolling out these features. The quality of this work has a great impact on the time-to-market of the entire product. The higher the quality, the less work that needs to be done as the product is transferred to Dev. Test.

Be sure to look at the QA Notebook to learn how to apply the DV Notebook to real hardware in a testing lab.

Lab Testing and Manufacturing

The DV notebook and QA Notebook allow lab testing teams to track their results and stay tightly integrated with the development team. FPGAs and SoC designs spend months and even years in post-silicon verification environments. Increasingly, companies need to keep that lab testing connected to RTL verification environment.

Cut waste and track process variations. Tracking historical data from prototyping and manufacturing activities can replace intuition with hard data and facts. Sweep through your process corners and track the output and yield of each variation.

For automated lab testing of network equipment, be sure to look at the QA Notebook to learn how to apply the DV Notebook to real hardware in a testing lab.

Hardware Design Engineers

Parsing result files is not just for Verification. The DV Notebook can keep track of worst-case timing paths, source control checkins, action items, bug reports and more.

Each developer can create a dashboard of their modules and functions, action items, worst case timing paths, and file modification histories. From this, the DV Notebook can automatically generate a status report, saving an extra hour a week for each member of the engineering team.

Starting from the micro-architecture phase, the tools can monitor checkins and changes on each design file. Managers can visualize each design feature come to life as its associated test passes for the first time. Dashboards allow any combination of graphs and tables such as worst-case timing paths, bug rates, and bug closures.

Hardware Verification Engineers

Compacting 20 times more comprehensive testing into a set of tests Automatically scoring and storing all results for historical use.

The software condenses and tracks this data over time, you can focus on the most relevant and important characteristics. This allows you to spot trends and patterns. It allows you to find the root cause of problems. It allows you to sort problems and only work on the most important, critical ones. It avoids working on duplicate problems.

Development and test engineers would use the Achilles tools as an alternative to writing test plans in a word processor and implementing them either via GUIs or scripting languages like TCL. Unlike a TCL script, an Achilles test plan (called an active test plan) can be monitored for coverage and activity by upper management, architects, support engineers, etc. via the web interface.

Be sure to look at the DV Notebook SF to learn how to go beyond the DV Notebook and generate tests to close coverage.

The DV Notebook allows you find flaws in your product faster by enhancing your verification and accelerating your process.

The DV Notebook focuses on your data, making it more valuable. By permanently organizing and structuring data, it is easier to manage.