Today's chip designs are getting smaller and bigger. Feature sizes are moving into nanometer geometries, and gate counts are pushing towards the 100M gate mark. Semiconductor companies creating these ...

Memory-efficient, multithreaded engines utilize available server cores to speed up automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) and silicon diagnosis Twenty-five percent fewer test patterns reduce test ...

Moore’s law has been the standard reference for semiconductor scaling. It roughly says that semiconductor design sizes, fueled by technology improvements, double every two years. Consequentially, the ...

The old adage “time is money” is highly applicable to the production testing of semiconductor devices. Every second that a wafer or chip is under test means that the next part cannot yet be tested.

The trend in semiconductors leads to more IC test data volume, longer test times, and higher test costs. Embedded deterministic test (EDT) has continued to deliver more compression, which has been ...