EDN

SoC testability: Designers confront speed, complexity issues

For much of the lifetime of digital IC engineering, testability has been one of those issues that was somebody else's problem. But with the arrival of the SoC, it has become clear that testability ...
Semiconductor Engineering

DFT At The Leading Edge

Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the rapidly changing landscape of design for testability (DFT), focusing on the impact of advancements in fault models, high-speed ...
Machine Design

DfX: How Design for Excellence Guides Product Development

Toronto-based NeuronicWorks Inc. is a design engineering and manufacturing company that casts a Design for Excellence (DfX) lens over product development. DfX is a set of best practices intended to ...
Semiconductor Engineering

A Lightweight Scan Instrumentation For Enhancing The Post-Silicon Test Efficiency in ICs (U. of Florida)

A technical paper titled “Enhancing Test Efficiency through Automated ATPG-Aware Lightweight Scan Instrumentation” was published by researchers at University of Florida. “Scan-based ...
Electronic Design

Manage ASIC, SoC Design Risk with Leading-Edge Verification Services

Value in design prototyping using FPGAs. Validating the design with firmware. How the process works. Identifying companies with the right experience and expertise in FPGA and design prototyping ...
Machine Design

A History of Design for Manufacturing and Assembly

The need for Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) began shortly after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but it took a hundred years for it to ultimately come into focus in the 1960s, and it ...