Success in the electronics business hinges on producing high-quality products and using the most cost-effective methods to do so. As the number of devices on integrated circuits continues to double ...

San Jose, Calif. — Magma Design Automation Inc. has launched the Talus automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) and Talus ATPG-X products with on-chip compression. These advanced ATPG products are ...

Design for test (DFT) has been around since the 1960s. The technology was developed to reduce the cost of creating a successful test for an IC. Scan design, fault models, and automatic test pattern ...

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 ...

As chips get ever bigger and more complex, the electronic design automation (EDA) industry must innovate constantly to keep up. Engineers expect every new generation of silicon to be modeled, ...

Power management in contemporary system-on-chip (SoC) designs is almost unimaginably complex. Processors and other chip cores turn on and off as needed. Advanced features such as dynamic voltage and ...

Automatic test pattern generation automatic test pattern generator is an electronic design automation method used to find an input sequence that, when applied to a digital circuit, enables automatic ...