SynchronizeRequest a demo
Casebook07 cases · 4 sources · cited to the engineer

Every reply here was solved once before.

An FAE inbox is a thin layer over years of solved problems scattered across four tools. Below is the ledger — seven failure modes a semiconductor support team meets, each root-caused once and retrievable the instant it recurs. Pick a row to read the moment in full.

01A Gen5 link silently downshifts to Gen4 under thermal loadPCIe · LTSSMLTSSM-512 · Priya Nadkarni02A NIC throws completion timeouts after a driver updateNIC driverDRV-822 · Sofia Marchetti03A board won’t come up cold — three prior bring-ups answer itBring-upPLL-159 / DDR-244 / SI-37704One account, scattered across four tools, reads as one storyAccountHelio Robotics · 4 sources05Triage the account that’s drifting, not the last one to emailAccount healthEngagement signals06A GPU brown-out hands off to power delivery, fully framedPDN · di/dtPDN-407 · Eli Strand07A regression is caught before the third customer writes inFleet patterndriver 3.8.0 · 3 accounts
What one looks like01 · A failure already solved

Priya root-caused this exact downshift eight months ago.

Vortex Compute’s Gen5 link trains to x16 at boot, then drops to Gen4 under thermal load — the CTLE preset was tuned at ambient and the eye collapses as the retimer heats. Synchronize pulls back case LTSSM-512, the closed issue where Priya Nadkarni fixed it, and drafts the reply from her work, with her name on it. You read it; you send it.

Outlook · customer thread
VC
Lena Fischer · Vortex Compute
to you · 9:12 AM
Gen5 link silently falls back to Gen4 after ~20 min

Card trains Gen5 x16 at boot, then downshifts to Gen4 under sustained load and won’t recover without a warm reset. Correctable errors climb in lspci right before it drops. Seen this?

Draft · awaiting your approvalLTSSM-512 · Priya Nadkarni · GitHub

Hi Lena — we’ve root-caused this exact downshift. The RX equalization preset is tuned at ambient; as the retimer heats, channel insertion loss rises past what the CTLE preset can hold, the recovered eye collapses, and LTSSM fails Recovery.Equalization until the fallback policy gives up a generation. Priya fixed it with thermal-adaptive re-EQ and a higher retimer preset (P7→P9).

⏎  Use this reply
Six more moments
github.com/arclight-ai/nic-driver · #913⌥ Space
$ dmesg | tail · since driver 3.8.0
eth2: tx queue 3 timed out — completion timeout
NETDEV WATCHDOG: transmit queue stalled
Your team closed this. MSI-X vectors collapsed onto one queue in 3.8.0.#DRV-822 · 96% match
02The answer isn’t in the inbox

The answer is on a screen that isn’t your email.

A GitHub thread shows a NIC throwing completion timeouts since driver 3.8.0. Press Option-Space and DRV-822 surfaces in place — where Sofia Marchetti bisected it to an MSI-X vector-allocation change. Read on the keystroke, never in the background.

Answering from your team’s cases

A customer’s board won’t come up at 0 °C. Three engineers have each root-caused a cold-temperature bring-up failure — here’s who, and where.

YT
Yuki Tanaka
PLL-159 · won't lock at 0°C · Jira
01
HV
Hannah Vogel
DDR-244 · 1-in-30 cold-boot fail · email
02
TO
Tomás Okafor
SI-377 · RS-FEC climbs as it cools · GitHub
03
03Day one, full team memory

A new hire inherits what the team learned cold.

A customer’s board won’t come up at 0 °C. Back come three prior cases, each cited — a PLL that won’t lock cold, DDR5 training that fails one boot in thirty, a SerDes lane shedding RS-FEC codewords — before the new hire has met any of them.

Account · Helio RoboticsAt risk
GitHubECC-091 · single-bit ECC storm on rank 12d
EmailTHERM-263 · θJA throttling under sustained load4d
DiscordCMPL-540 · compliance eye-mask fail (errata)1d
JiraEscalation open with the platform teamtoday
Insight · One hardware-margin story, not four unrelated tickets.
04One account, every source

Four scattered threads resolve to one story.

Helio Robotics lives in four places at once — an ECC storm in a closed issue, a θJA throttling thread in email, a compliance eye-mask failure from Discord, an open Jira escalation. Collapsed into one view, they read as a single hardware-margin problem.

Home · needs a reply
Nimbus Photonics
Engagement down 40% — no reply in 9 days
Reach out
Orbital Dynamics
Silent 21d after a DDR cold-boot report
Escalate
Arclight AI
Bring-up question waiting since yesterday
Answer
05Triage by what’s slipping

The account that’s drifting, not the one that emailed last.

The home returns insights instead of an unread count: engagement down 40%, an account silent 21 days after a cold-boot report, a bring-up question waiting since yesterday. You start where it’s slipping.

Handoff → Power-delivery teamPDN-407
SymptomGPU resets under bursty compute — no thermal trip, no software crash
Prior artPDN-407 — di/dt load-step droop, resolved by Eli Strand
Root causeCore rail dips below Vmin for microseconds; steady-state headroom is fine
Customer stateHelio Robotics awaiting a decoupling / VRM-bandwidth fix
Assembled from 4 sources · you send it
06The escalation handoff

Engineering opens the packet already knowing what you know.

A GPU resets under bursty compute — a di/dt droop dipping the core rail below Vmin for microseconds while headroom looks fine on a meter. Symptom, prior art, root cause and customer state, assembled into one packet with the matching solved case attached.

Pattern · across accounts
Three customers hit the same 3.8.0 MSI-X regression.
Arclight AINimbus PhotonicsOrbital Dynamics

One root cause, one fix to ship as 3.8.1, one proactive note — surfaced while the third account is still drafting its email.

07The same failure, many customers

A regression caught before the third customer writes in.

Driver 3.8.0’s MSI-X regression doesn’t read as a fleet problem until three accounts line up behind one root cause. The pattern surfaces while the third is still drafting its email — one fix to ship, one note to send all three.

FAQ

Questions FAE teams ask.

Does it email customers for me?+

No. Synchronize writes a draft and stops there; a human reviews every word and clicks send. It has no path to your outbox, and it never posts to GitHub, Jira, or Discord on your behalf.

Does the companion watch my screen all day?+

It reads the active screen only on the Option-Space keystroke, and only that screen. There’s no background capture, no always-on recording, and nothing is retained between the moments you invoke it.

Where do its answers come from?+

From the Outlook, GitHub, Jira, and Discord sources you connect, and nothing else. Every reply is drawn from your own team’s resolved history — cited to the case and the engineer — never from a public model’s guess.

Where does our data live?+

Inside your tenant, in your region, under your access controls. Your cases and customer data never leave to train a shared model, and no other customer can retrieve them.

How long does setup take?+

An afternoon. You authorize the four sources and start retrieving against your own history immediately — no data migration, no schema work, no reindexing project.

Are the companies and cases on this site real?+

Every account, ticket number, and engineer name here is fictional demo data. The product is real and built with semiconductor design partners under NDA, whose actual cases we don’t show.

See these moments on your own cases.

We’ll run Synchronize against a real workflow from your team — under NDA, on your data.

Request a demoRead the field notes