Semiconductor Engineering

Improve DFT Verification And Meet Time-To-Market Goals With Emulation

What if all the DFT verification on your next big chip could be completed before tape-out? This “shift-left” of DFT verification would eliminate the need for shortcuts in verification and allow for ...
Electronic Design

Automotive design example illustrates hierarchical DFT architecture

Fort Worth, TX. Designs keep scaling and taking on a lot of complexity, according to Ron Press, technology enablement director at Mentor Graphics. Delivering a corporate presentation Wednesday on the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Power-Aware Test: Addressing Power Challenges In DFT And Test

Integrated circuit (IC) sizes continue to grow as they meet the compute requirements of cutting-edge applications such as artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous driving, and data centers. As design ...
Electronic Design

DFT Strategies for SOC Designs

Many IC designers finally have embraced design for testability (DFT) in the form of scan insertion for digital circuit designs because of the significant time-to-production advantages these techniques ...