“Smart Things” Require Flexible Test Peter Cockburn November 2015

Outline – Smart things and key features – Test requirements for modules in smart things – Example 1: BTLE SOC – Example 2: MEMS sensor test – Example 3: 76-81GHz ADAS

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IoT = The Next “Big Wave?”

Source: Globalfoundries

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IoT Paving the Way to Trillion(s) Sensors Mobile/Fitness/Wearables

Smart City/Infrastructure

Automotive

Inertial, Microphones, Biosensors, Touch, Optical, Pressure, Temperature, Humidity Inertial, Pressure, Temperature, Humidity, Chemical, Light,

Inertial, Pressure, Temperature, Chemical, Gas, Humidity, Radar

Sensors of the IoT Healthcare

Industrial

Building/Home Automation

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Biosensors, Temperature, Chemical, Pressure, Light, Inertial

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IoT volumes will be driven by End Nodes End Nodes are the “smart things” consisting of three key elements

Sensors Microcontrollers and Flash Memory Wireless low power Communication

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New sensor applications and packaging

Sensors Trends

Optical Image Stabilization

WLCSP

Barometric Pressure 3D Stacked SIP

Biosensors

9 DOF 4mm2

Accelerometer

1mm2

Gyroscope

Magnetometer

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10 DOF

IoT Microcontroller Trends – Ultra low-power and lower current – Flash memory (small to medium: 10KB to 256KB) – Higher levels of mixed-signal integration • RF integration (BTLE/Mesh, WiFi…) • More ADC/DAC and higher resolution (8 Æ 16-bit) – Sensor fusion – Both ARM and proprietary architectures – New packaging technologies (WLP) and smaller sizes

Source: Microchip

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Multiple RF Standards Competing for IoT Applications • Dominated by low-power wireless connectivity • Multiple standard and proprietary wireless protocols vying for adoption: flexible test solutions required Standard

Industry

Frequency

Range

Topology

Data Rate

Fitness, Medical

2.4 GHz

30m

Star, Tree, Mesh

60 kb/s

Smart Home, Smart Energy