One of the biggest problems for electronic design tool vendors is how to quickly and easily get tools in front of engineers.
For all of the new products out there, engineers want to:
- Get a quick demonstration
- Review some technical material
- Dive in and try out the tool (not on their own workstation!)
- Get some technical training
- Get quick answers to technical questions from engineers or other users
All on their own time, without installing anything or leaving their desk.
Well, now it is possible. All from the same online location. A Xuropa Online Lab provides a controlled and secure online environment within which visitors have access to your products with only a browser. No downloads, no installations and no configuration.
Watch the video to learn more and contact us at (exhibit)[at](xuropa)[dot](com), (with no brackets).
It would appear that the Xuropa Online Lab could have terrific application. Specifically looking from my area of specialization; system or subsystem level validation of standard interfaces in ASIC or ASSP implementations.
This vehicle would be ideal to validate a complete USB implementation verification stack. Right? It’s very complex once different levels of abstraction are integrated, and installation and setup of the environment would be error prone and time consuming.
I can see that an Online Lab is good for the EDA Tool vendor as well though.
An EDA tool vendor could highlight its best-in-class subsystem feature set as their Online Lab example. It would be the best way to present a highly complex task or function in a relatively simple and easy to understand manner.
Taking the possible Xuropa Online Lab example a step further shows how easy it could reduce a complex subsystem example to a simple 5 or 10 minute demo case. In this case a particular ARM processor implementation together with a specific peripheral and application matched set of drivers/class driver, OS, protocol stack, and codecs or file system provides an easily understood abstraction level.
Such a case can span many digital design fields in such a way to link respective domains and specializations to allow anyone to see their specific digital design niche.
The tool vendor’s product gets highlighted and the users get to delve in as much or as little as they want – on their own time, and at their own desk…no installs!
Is my understanding of the potential in the Xuropa Online Lab correct, or is the use case potential overstated?