As the name suggests, electronic design automation (EDA) companies strive to provide as much automation as possible to simplify the design process. However, many companies develop customized flows ...

It used to be that just designing the semiconductor circuit was all design engineers really needed to worry about. Once all the specified functionality was designed in and verified, the design ...

For example, he said, Keysight has helped customers with large and complex PCBAs with 10,000 and more nodes use DFT tools to take advantage of boundary scan to fit into a 5,000 node test strategy.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 9, 2020 — Real Intent, Inc., today announced Verix DFT, a full-chip, multimode DFT static sign-off tool. Verix DFT’s comprehensive set of fine-grained DFT rules help designers ...

WILSONVILLE, USA: Mentor Graphics Corp. announced that STMicroelectronics has adopted the TestKompress automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) product into its standard 65nm and 45nm design kits. The ...

This paper describes how using a smarter DFT infrastructure and automation can greatly improve the DFT schedule. A structural DFT infrastructure based on plug-and-play principles is used to enable ...

The reality of DFT for large and complex SoCs has introduced new risk into design schedules. DFT teams end up in the critical path to tape out while waiting for portions of the design to be complete, ...

Siemens Digital Industries Software has brought out software to help IC design teams streamline and accelerate a broad array of critical design-for-test (DFT) tasks. The software enables the analysis ...

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 ...

What is CTL, and why is it important to the semiconductor industry? The answers are here. Although the IEEE 1450.0 Stand-ard Test Interface Language (STIL) was adopted in March 1999, widespread ...