Electronic Design

DFT Propels SoC IC Testing

The Design-for-Test (DFT) methodology is a strong driving force in the cost-effective testing of large-volume commodity items with very short life cycles, like system-on-chip (SoC) devices. It will ...
Semiconductor Engineering

DFT: Essential For Power-Aware Test

Power-aware test is a major manufacturing consideration due to the problems of increased power dissipation in various test modes, as well as test implications that come up with the usage of various ...
EDN

Moving DFT into chip design with hardware emulation

Of all the electronic design automation (EDA) tools on the market, design for test (DFT) may be the most under-appreciated; even though building testability into a chip during the design phase will ...
EDN

Complex SoC Testing with a Core-Based DFT Strategy

With scaling technology and increasing design sizes, power consumption during test and test data volume have grown dramatically &#8212 making it almost impossible to test an entire design once it ...
Electronic Design

DFT that gets AI chips to market faster

As the demand for processing power for artificial intelligence (AI) applications grows, semiconductor companies are racing to develop AI-specific silicon. The AI market is incredibly dynamic, with ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Smart Plug-And-Play DFT For Arm Cores

Modern SoCs are experiencing continued growth in capabilities and design sizes with more and more subsystem IPs being implemented. These large, complex, multi-core SoCs need strategies for DFT and ...
Business Wire

DFTView and Verdi Give DFT and Test Engineers Visibility into STIL and WGL Files

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. & HSINCHU, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpringSoft, Inc., a global supplier of specialized IC design software, and Source III, Inc., a leading supplier of test vector translation ...