Electronic Design

Design-For-Test The Smart Way: dFT With A "Big T" And A "Little d"

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 ...
Electronic Design

Simulation Mismatches Can Foul Up Test-Pattern Verification

Design for testability (DFT) works to make a circuit more testable to ensure that it was manufactured correctly. Alfred Crouch explains the purpose of DFT in his book, Design-For-Test for Digital ICs ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Scalable End-To-End Test Solutions For Today’s Complex SoCs

Left-shifting DFT, scalable tests from manufacturing to the field, enabling system-level tests for in-field debug.
EDN

Design for test and design for safety—software architectures made to measure

Connected devices and systems have become an integral part of our everyday life and we take this for granted. Finding the fastest way to our destination with a smartphone, reading the news on a tablet ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Design For Test Data

As design pushes deeper into data-driven architectures, so does test. Geir Eide, director for product management of DFT and Tessent Silicon Lifecycle Solutions at Siemens Digital Industries Software, ...
EDN

Analytics software manages data from design to test

DataStudio analytics software from NI bridges critical data across the semiconductor design and test workflow. DataStudio Specification Compliance Manager (SCM), the first application in the ...