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Hi, I'm Mike Watts
from NI, and I'm

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joined by Sandeep Achari
from Soliton Technologies.

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Thank you for having me, Mike.

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Thanks for being here, Sandeep.

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Now Soliton has been a
trusted partner of NI

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for more than two decades,
and they play a crucial role

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in delivering post silicon
validation infrastructures

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for semiconductor
companies that are looking

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to modernize their labs.

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So Sandeep, what are some
of the trends and challenges

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that you've seen in
the industry recently?

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Sure, Mike.

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As you know, all
companies are in a race

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to reach market faster,
and on top of that,

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they are adding a lot of
capabilities to the DUT

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and adding more
software configurations

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so that their DUT is more
closer to the product,

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to help their customers
reach market faster.

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And all this without
compromising their test

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coverage and quality.

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And this trend is
increasing a lot of pressure

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for the validation team to
be a lot more efficient.

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So what they typically
need is a versatile set

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of tools, maybe a right
level of standardization

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for the engineers to do
whatever experiment they want

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and also quickly leverage what
other validation teams are

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using within the
organization or even beyond.

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And secondly, some
organizations are

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looking at integrating
teams and this is primarily

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happening due to mergers
and acquisitions,

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and even there they are looking
for a good set of platforms,

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tools, even practices,
to efficiently integrate

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these globally distributed
teams and exploit

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the synergy quickly.

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So I would say it's a lot of
significant challenges coming

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in all at once.

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Sure, yeah.

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Those are some of the
same challenges we've seen

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and it can be quite
challenging, indeed.

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Now, obviously, there are
tactics that companies can

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use to combat those challenges.

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Curious, what are some of the
examples that you've seen work

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well with some of
the industry leaders?

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So I would nominate
three key strategies

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that would help them achieve
the maximum efficiency possible.

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One would be automation at all
phases of product lifecycle

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that could provide a very
powerful engineering workflow.

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And the second would be adoption
of intelligent data management

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solutions that help engineers
derive quick insights

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from the data collected for
time critical decisions.

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And the third would be
a collaboration platform

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that would enable reuse within
the engineering community,

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and overall improving the
hardware and software asset

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utilization.

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Sure, yeah.

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Those seem all fair points, and
implementing those strategies

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can take time and
effort but the business

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benefits that come
from them can be real.

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So what type of
business benefits

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have you seen or the
impact, the metrics?

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Sure, Mike.

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So I would first post the
time by which you have

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your validation data already.

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So if you can have
the validation data

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within a few days
from the first samples

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that you can deliver
to customers,

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that's pretty good, instead
of taking multiple weeks

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to deliver those data.

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The second would be substantial
increase of our test coverage,

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through increased
automation of course.

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And this will provide a
lot of good quality data

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for the customer, it
builds a lot of confidence

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for the customer
about the device,

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and the third would be
a direct cost saving

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that happens due to reuse.

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And what we have seen
is large companies

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could even get over a million
dollar cost saving per year

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with the right kind
of infrastructure

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and collaboration platform.

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Yeah, that sounds great,
and that difference

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can really mean the difference
between getting to market first

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and gaining market share
or getting to market late

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and having to play catch up.

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So that's really exciting.

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And that's part of the reason
why NI and Soliton partnered

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to write a two part article
series where we touch on some

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of these topics, the
trends and challenges,

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and some of the best
practices associated

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with modernizing the lab.

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So we are really excited
about this article series,

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and what we wanted to do was
to bring in all our experience

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and share this knowledge to
the visionary leaders who

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are looking to build
these kind of framework

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for the engineering team.

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So we are really looking
forward to partner,

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as you consider
modernizing your lab

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and making validation as
your competitive advantage.

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Absolutely.

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So after you get done
reading the article series,

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the conversation
doesn't stop there.

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So please reach out to
us, NI and Soliton, we'd

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be happy to discuss ways that
we can partner together to help

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you as you embark
on your journey

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to help modernize your lab.

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So thanks, and enjoy
this article series.

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Thank you.

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