Achilles Test Systems was founded in 2006 to provide products and consulting services to automate and enhance the management and organization of data. The Achilles tools take the complexity out of managing large problem spaces with large amounts of data.

Achilles products and services enable development teams to correlate results across multiple project data files, cutting debug time in a collaborative development process. Project status is always available and up-to-date with automatically generated tables and charts to highlight trends from historical data. Every member of a global team just needs a web browser to launch design and debug tools, post comments and insights, and access an integrated visualization of timing closure, test tracking, and source-code revision history.

DV Notebook offers a ready-made solution for real-time progress and status tracking within design and verification teams. The DV Notebook is a flexible repository for collecting, analyzing and summarizing a large amount of result data from any mixture of design tools and simulations. This allows every member of a high-tech team to visualize progress as the project closes in on completion.

The DV Notebook’s visualizations enable users to sift through test and synthesis results, categorize failures, and highlight areas of concern in a design. Web-based visualizations draw attention to the key points of a project and bring engineers directly to the relevant context and supporting lower-level details in a few mouse clicks. Time-saving integration allows bugs to be filed and debug tools to be launched directly from the web interface with no cutting and pasting.

DV Notebook provides everything needed to share and streamline a DV work environment. Installed on a single computer, it can be configured to scan through all kinds of files on the network.

DV Notebook SF synthesizes directed tests to provide all of the benefits of directed testing without the associated costs. In addition, unlike most coverage tools, DV Notebook SF is equally useful in RTL, C simulations, and QA lab testing. Synthesized tests are organized and visualized using DV Notebook. DV Notebook SF tools are specially designed to providing coverage-based solutions to problems with large permutations.

QA Notebook automatically creates test scenarios, runs them on a router or other network device, and scores the results for easy browsing and reference.

The University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) uses all three products offered by Achilles to perform high-volume testing of DSL equipment. They were able to use the DV Notebook, the DV Notebook SF, and the QA Notebook to conduct highly efficient automated testing in conformance with the DSL Forum TR-67 and TR-100 test plans.

Christopher Kappler, Ph.D, founder, President & CEO (previously lead architect of the QoS Engine used in Cisco’s Quantum Flow Processor and led an architectural group at Hammerhead Networks, which was acquired by Cisco)

Gregory Goss, VP & COO (20+ years experience at Cascade, Ascend, Lucent, Hammerhead, and Cisco)

Andrew Hebb, VP of Business Development (previously led engineering teams at Cisco and co-founder Director of Hardware for Hammerhead)