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OpsDev: Designing an automated product company
Dag Braend
COO Novelda
Mike Long
CEO Praqma Norway
Novelda at a glance
Novelda AS is an R&D driven, fabless semiconductor company specializing in Low Power Ultra Wide Band Impulse Radar. Our
revolutionary radar system-on-a-chip technology forms the basis for developing non-intrusive sensors towards a range of applications
such as vital signs monitoring, human safety, building and home automation.
We focus on providing easy-to-use OEM sensor modules including software, antennas and signal processing.
OSLO
TRONDHEIM
Novelda is based in Oslo and Trondheim, Norway with 30 employees
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Background
Combining multiple sensors into one
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UWB pulse radar principle – close targets resolved by range
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Target resolved in range by transmitting
very short (~ ns) pulses
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Range resolution ∆R = ctp/2 (c = 3.0e8)
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E.g. tp = 1ns -> BW=1 GHz -> ∆R = 15 cm
Very high range accuracy (~cm)
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Customer example applications
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Rice University
Samsung Thales
Flat Earth
3D radar imaging
Mine detector
Snow depth sensor
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XeThru focus applications
Vital Signs Monitoring
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People Detection
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Novelda XeThtu Radar Sensor
~120-130 cm
Novelda
radar
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XeThru vs PSG - Respiration
• PSG sensors provide gold
standard for sleep
measurement
• Respiration data obtained from
PSG sensor and XeThru
• Virtually identical RPM reading
from PSG and XeThru
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Hypnography
Wake
REM
Light (N1)
Light (N2)
Deep (N3)
Deep sleep: Low RPM variance + low movement
REM: Higher RPM and RPM variance
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X2M200 Respiration Module - Hardware
X2
Voltage
Regulators
MCU
USB
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RAM
I/O
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X2 System-on-Chip
Captures every detail
Raw RF sampling at 40GS/s
Flexible signal processing
Instant range view
Configurable multi parallel
sampling
Differentiate close
objects
High dynamic range enable
detection, differentiation and
tracking of small objects close to
large
Multi object tracking
Ultra high spatial resolution
enables simultaneous multi
object tracking
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Sees through obstacles
Sub 10GHz
Low Power
Extremely energy efficient A/D
conversion. Transmitter with no
carrier, only pulses
Coexistent sensors
Staggered output pulse and
coherent sampling enable sensor
coexistence
RF Compliance
Configurable transmitter for larger
compliance footprint
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FW Block Diagram
Tx
Complex
Baseband
X2
FrameStorage
Buffer
Baseband down
Conversion
2-D Processing
PulseDoppler +
Noisemap
Rx
@1sec
Breathing Pattern
Estimator
Ctrl
Ctrl
Respiration
Detector
Possible User States
B: Breathing
M: Movement
NM: No Movement
Output
User State
Movement Amplitude
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B
Range, RPM
State
Combiner
M
Movement
Detector
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Problem Statement
How do you develop?
How do you integrate
development,
manufacturing &
delivery?
Two Objectives
Quality
Timeline
The Challenge - Product Quality
for each unit manufactured, be
able to:
• Identify the HW revision
• Complete Hierarchical BOM
• Traceable validation process
• Identify the FW revision
• Full revision history
• Traceable validation process
• Full test coverage + functional test
• 100% HW test coverage
• Individual RF test on each unit
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The Challenge - Complexity
Complexity
Environment
• High Complexity HW
• Multiple HW Configurations
• High Frequency
• Ultra wideband
• Extremely high sampling rates
• High Complexity SW
• Advanced signal processing
• RTOS
• Adaptive SW, noise tolerant
• Low cost
• To be used in consumer products
• Rapidly changing market
• Tine to market is crucial
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• Multiple Usage Scenarios
• FW Embedded in customers
application, not likely to be upgraded
• World wide distribution
• Satisfy the quality requirements of tier
1 brands
• Small company – limited resources
Solution
Commit
Rejected
Fail
Fail
Integration
“Build”
Toll-gate pass
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Rejected
Pipeline
Fail
Analysis &
Metrics
Deploy
Fail
Functional
test
Fail
Document
Fail
Fail
Validate
Done done
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Commit
Rejected
Fail
Fail
Integration
Pipeline
“Build”
Toll-gate pass
Fail
Analysis &
Metrics
Deploy
Fail
Functional
test
Fail
Document
Fail
Fail
Validate
Done done
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http://semver.org
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HW Quality – Gated Development Process
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ASIC Quality with Continuous Delivery
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HW Quality
Design
Design Tools
Factory
• Quality Plan
• Altium Designer
• SAP B1 (ERP)
• Gated development flow
through Confluence
templates
• Schematics entry
• Schematics layout
• Board simulations
• Revision control
• Serial number tracking
• Inventory control
through product
revision, serial # and
age
• Confluence
• Component
management
• Hierarchical Bill of
Materials
• Revision control
• Documentation
• Serial number
generation
• Gated development
process
• Inventory management
• Customer orders
• Return Material
Handling (RMA)
• And more …
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HW Quality – Gated Development Process
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HW Quality – Gated (and very much waterfall!)
Phase 1 Quality Planning
DoD: QA Plan Approval
Phase 2 Development
DoD: Design Approval
Phase 3 Prototype
DoD: Prototype Approval
Phase 4 Product Verification
DoD: Factory Floor Approval
Phase 5 Mass Production
DoD: Happy Customer
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Operations
Operational Quality
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EDA Tools Cadence
PCBA & Box Build – Stride Electronics - Malaysia
• ISO9001-2000
• ISO 9001
• ISO 13485 (Medical)
• TS16949 (Automotive
CMOS Foundry – TSMC - Taiwan
Logistics – DHL - Everywhere
• ISO9001:20XX
• ISO/TS 16949
• IEXQ QC080000
• ISO9001
• TS16949
CMOS Assembly - ASE Group - Korea
Excess Material Handling – Converge – Hong Kong
• ISO 9001:20XX
• ISO/TS 16949
• ISO 9002
• ISO14000
Test – Delta - Denmark
Waste Material Handling – AER International - Everywhere
• ISO 9001
• ISO 14001
• ISO 9001
• ISO 13485 (Medical)
• TS16949 (Automotive
PCB – Suntak - China
Warehouse – KWE (Q1 2016) - Malaysia
• ISO 9001
• ISO 13485 (Medical)
• ISO 9001
• ISO 13485 (Medical)
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Engineering / Operations Integration
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SW to
Operations
from
Artifactory
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FW
Test SW
Configuration SW
GUI
HW to
Operations
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PCBA BOM
Gerber / PCB
Placement
Build & packaging
Novelda
WEB
Novelda
SAP
Factory
SAP
Hierarchical Bill of Material including FW in SAP B1
Top Leve BOM
Item #
SW BOM
Revision
Controlled
through API
Application
Bootloader
HW BOM
Revision
Controlled
through Item #
Test
Links to Artifactory
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Configuration
Components
PCB
PCBA Assembly
Manufacturing order based on Hierarchical Bill of Material
Purchase Order
Item # x Volume
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Manufacturing
Order
Item # x Volume
Manufactured
Item
Serial #
Manufacturing
Test Result
Manfuactured
Item
Serial #
Manufacturing
Test Result
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Automated test Configuration
Novelda
SAP
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Summary
• Continuous Delivers delivers its promise of quality and availability of SW
• If you do it right from the start you get there faster
• It does not have to distract teams, actually it helps
• Setting up the complete shop from development to delivery is a puzzle that
involves multiple systems with many interactions
• The task of knowing all the tools required for the flow to work can be
difficult for a small company such as Novelda
• The combined output when first established is very efficient, promotes
great product quality and is easy to QA/QC certify
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