An expert in finding solutions to IC nanometer design and manufacturing challenges, Joseph Sawicki is responsible for Mentor Graphics’ design-to-silicon products, including the Olympus-SoC ...

The use of redundant logic may increase product reliability. Two of the most costly functions that engineering teams developing electronic products perform are verification and test. On the surface, ...

The testing and verification of semiconductor chips was a prominent topic at this year’s European Test Systems (ETS) conference, especially in the area of Design-for-Test (DFT) tools and techniques.

Design-for-test, or DFT, should facilitate high-quality test, not change the design. Test techniques and strategies need to supply a high-quality test that screens out defective devices, avoiding ...

Historically, testability is an afterthought in the design process. But heightening complexity of chip designs, and especially SoCs, forces testability (and manufacturability) to take a more central ...

Until very recently, semiconductor design, verification, and test were separate domains. Those domains have since begun to merge, driven by rising demand for reliability, shorter market windows, and ...

Electronics design and testing were once two distinct functions where an electronic design was breadboarded and populated before testing. Problems that emerged during testing may have forced some time ...

In today’s highly competitive semiconductor industry, chip-design companies strive for competitive advantages by optimizing designs for PPA (Power, Performance, Area). Along with the functional logic, ...

Join us on Wednesday, December 15 at noon Pacific for the Design for Test Hack Chat with Duncan Lowder! If your project is at the breadboard phase, or even if you’ve moved to a PCB prototype, it’s ...