• CUSTOMER: Semiconductor engineering validation organization

• DATA CHALLENGE: Engineering Test Data and Analytics Management

• OBJECTIVE: Data and analytics automation and collaboration

• SOLUTION: Viviota Time-to-Insight, Analytics Studio™ and Viviota Time-to-Insight Repository™

• RESULTS: Automated data and analytics workflows and increased collaboration across globally distributed engineering teams

Engineers in the semiconductor industry are challenged to keep up with tight deadlines and ever-increasing complexities in chip design, production, and market requirements. One key investment area in the engineering process, where real efficiencies can be uncovered, is the post-silicon validation process. To speed this process, engineering teams are working to become more agile in their approaches using more frequent, but smaller, test and iteration cycles in the pre-production process and looking at a broader set of data from across the product lifecycle to give designers and engineers a more holistic view of the products they are developing.

SUMMARY
In examining the semiconductor design and validation process further, validation engineering has significant room for acceleration to shorten lab validation cycles. According to a study at National Instruments, validation engineers spend more than 40% of their time managing the test results data and associated analytics. This creates inefficiencies for the engineer diverting their efforts from high-value correlation and causation analysis, and limits the ability to take advantage of high-end analytics techniques including simulation or AI/Machine Learning. 

DATA CHALLENGE — ENGINEERING TEST DATA AND ANALYTICS MANAGEMENT
Semiconductor validation teams need better software for managing validation data and supercharging their analytics. Engineers need ways to accelerate test and iteration cycles in the pre-production process. To do this they need access to a broader set of data from across the product lifecycle.

OBJECTIVE — DATA AND ANALYTICS AUTOMATION AND COLLABORATION
A system that optimizes the data and analytics workflows of globally distributed engineering team, providing the data and analytics management tools validation engineers need to accelerate their processes.

SOLUTION — VIVIOTA TIME-TO-INSIGHT ANALYTICS STUDIO™ AND VIVIOTA TIME-TO-INSIGHT REPOSITORY™
Time-to-Insight (TTI) Analytics Studio™ and Repository software provides validation engineers with the broader set of data
and advanced capabilities they need to accelerate processes and analytics across global organizations.