Receive free licenses for ASA products for providing ASA with test data
The goals of the M1 Test Partner Alliance (TPA) are simple: provide ASA with specific scope, digitizer, or EDA data we need to test new additions to our tools, and we'll provide you with complementary licenses to those tools. At the moment, we are looking for two kinds of test data described below:
EDA-generated waveform files:
- Cadence PSPICE waveform files
- Cadence Spectre/UltraSim PSF/WSF waveform files
This year, ASA has opened up M1 Waveform Tools™ (via the SimBridge™ App) and M1 Waveform Viewer™ to accept simulated waveform output from EDA tools, in addition to the support already available for nearly every real-time scope ever made.
Our objective on the EDA side is the same: to ensure simple access to every EDA simulation output file type in common use. We already support the HSPICE .TR0 file format, and are moving on to popular formats from Cadence. To ensure maximum compatibility, we like to work with a wide range of data in our internal development and testing before releasing it. If you can take just 10 minutes to help us with some test data, we'll provide you with as many licenses of the updated M1 Waveform Viewer as you need and an ASA engineer will personally take you through your first measurements to make sure you're up and running.
If you can provide other common EDA simulation output file types, we may be able to work with you on those too. Please contact ASA at support@amherst-systems.com for more information on exactly what we need for EDA-based test data.
Compliance Test Data
- USB 3.0
- SATA 3
- HDMI v1.4
- DisplayPort v1.2
- 10 Gb Ethernet
- PCIe v3.0
We have a number of Compliance Apps written and ready to go into the M1 Apps Store™ that only require a bit more testing against a wider range of sample waveforms. If you can provide us with acceptable test data for any of the listed compliance types, we'll provide you with a full copy of M1 Waveform Tools, the M1 SimBridge App and several copies of M1 Reader™. Depending on your scope hardware, this is potentially worth in excess of $15,000. Because M1 can work with waveforms from either scopes or EDA tools, we're happy to work with either type but there are some specific requirements. Please contact ASA at support@amherst-systems.com for more information.
Note that we're specifically not looking for anything proprietary. We just want to work with you to ensure our tools remain the most reliable and capable tools on the market.
