Rapid prototyping and test before silicon of integrated pressure sensors

Drastic reduction of test setup debug effort after silicon availability is required. This is achieved by using an early prototype, in parallel to chip design, much before silicon is available. A FPGA is used to emulate chip digital behavior and emulation boards are used to substitute analog models. Fails injection, parameters randomization, multi-site test environment and pressure stimuli response is obtained. Outcome is significant timeline reduction, while increasing quality level of test setup and testability of the chip.