Jeremy Hochschwender, a three year veteran here at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) recently sat down with me to discuss his job of designing printed circuit boards, or PCBs, here at the lab. The PCBs that Jeremy designs are used in MIPI DPHY testing. MIPI DPHY is a standard that defines communication specifications as well as the required electrical characteristics for cell phone components such as the display or the camera sensor. The MIPI Consortium uses these...
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Network Operations for Interop Las Vegas
By Ainsley-Aude Croteau - June 2, 2015
During the week of April 22nd, UNH-IOL students Joel Nkounkou and I went to Las Vegas, NV to volunteer for the NOC (Network Operations Center) team at Interop Las Vegas. Interop Las Vegas is one of the largest technical conferences and trade shows for the IT industry where companies set up elaborate stations on the expo show floor to promote their products to other companies. Interop Las Vegas also provides educational classes in a variety of topics to their attendees...
UNH-IOL Combines Broadband & Consumer Test Services
By James Tardiff - May 27, 2015
Some of the many testing and certification services offered by the UNH-IOL include DLNA/VidiPath™ Certification, IPv6 Ready CE Router Certification, Broadband Forum (BBF) TR-069 Certification as well as RVU Alliance Certification. Until recently, these services were offered by two different internal groups within the UNH-IOL, the Digital Living Consortium (DLC) and the Home Networking Consortium (HNC). The UNH-IOL is excited to announce that as of May 1st 2015, all of these testing services are offered by HNC allowing...
Encouraging Robust Implementations Through Informative Testing
By Matthew Mayer - April 20, 2015
When it comes to conformance testing, it takes more than just binary pass or fail baseline tests to provide reports that encourage the strongest possible implementation of a standard. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) uses the keywords “MUST” and “MUST NOT”, as defined in RFC 2119, to mandate specific behaviors across their standards. Neglecting to adhere to these requirements will result in failed compliance tests. However, defining "correct" behavior is not always black and white. To address...
Modernization of Mobile Storage
By David Woolf - April 14, 2015
David Woolf recently authored a blog post that was featured on Embedded.com in which he discusses the rapid progression of mobile storage technologies. Woolf suggests that the increasing usage of mobile products and demand for new technology has caused an increase in the demand for progress in other applications such as storage and vice versa.
"Mobile device makers tend to highlight high storage capacities of their devices. Lower end devices are typically in the 8-16 GB range, whereas higher end devices can have 128 GB or more. Most Android devices accept microSD cards, increasing their capacity further (currently microSD cards max out at 128 GB). But what are the technologies behind all this storage, and what’s in store for them and the future of mobile storage?"
INTACT® 3.2.4.0 Release
By Timothy Carlin - April 14, 2015
The UNH-IOL is pleased to announce the 3.2.4.0 release of the IOL INTACT® Network Test Automation Software. This long awaited update delivers our most requested features to our users and marks two significant paradigm shifts for the IOL INTACT® platform: Floating Licenses, and Virtual Machine Support. In addition, this release is combined with updates to two of the most popular IOL INTACT® test packages: IPv6 Core and CE Router. These updates include bug fixes, and for the first time complete PASS/FAIL Results reporting for each and every test case.
The Oyster River Internship Program – Intro to Hardware
By Tyler Collins - March 23, 2015
Choosing a career path before college can be a scary process. The UNH-IOL partners with Oyster River High School to hold an internship program for students to receive school credit. This program helps high school students explore the wide scope of technical fields before committing to a major. Along with providing students with guidance towards their preferred academic field, the program allows the students to put their foot in the door and gain valuable experience before diving into academia. "Learning...
Themes of the Career Paths in STEM Panel
By Marion Dillon - March 16, 2015
On Tuesday, February 24th , a group of UNH students gathered to meet members of various STEM industries to hear advice from professionals and to hone their networking skills. Participating companies included CDM Smith, Liberty Mutual, Raytheon, Summit Engineering, Texas Instruments, and QA Cafe. Dr. Robert Henry, from UNH’s Civil and Environmental Engineering department, moderated a panel session, where each panelist shared their take on their industry, and STEM fields as a whole.
As it often...
Issues and Limitations with DDR Memory
By Michael Klempa - March 9, 2015
Catching one of the last flights out of Boston and escaping one of the many Nor’easters, I learned a great deal about Double Data Rate (DDR) memory while attending DesignCon 2015. Many people know a little about memory - it is ubiquitous and essential in computer architecture. It’s especially present in the backbone of the internet, servers. And with cloud computing being the latest and greatest thing out there right now, most companies want the fastest memory available since memory...
Announcing Automated Remote iSCSI Testing
By Matthew Mayer - March 4, 2015
Since its launch in 2010, the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) Remote iSCSI Target Tester has been a test tool with great potential. The ability to remotely execute tests from both the Target Login and Target Full Feature Phase (FFP) Test Suites gives vendors the opportunity to tweak their implementation before shipping a device to the lab for full testing. Details specific to the Remote iSCSI Target Tester were discussed in a previous blog, “ ...