Diagnostic test developers, including clinical laboratories, responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with inspiring creativity to meet patient testing needs. These developers found unique ways to enable ...

The size of designs continues to grow and IC manufacturers are pushing for higher test quality, especially in mission-critical applications such as transportation and medicine. More advanced nodes ...

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

Logic built-in self-test (LBIST), is a mechanism that lets an (IC) test the integrity of its own digital logic structures. LBIST operates by stimulating the logic-based operations of the IC and then ...

The exponential growth in design sizes has rendered the traditional methods of design-for-test, layout, and timing closure no longer sufficient. Design and test engineers not only have to constantly ...

Australian start-up Hoopsy has created a recyclable pregnancy test that is 99 per cent made out of paper, aiming to stop millions of single-use plastic versions ending up in landfill each year. The ...

Test compression sounds like magic. Read on to learn how this trick is done. Large, complex ICs are viable because their design meets test as well as functional requirements. Design for test (DFT) was ...

Getting an integrated circuit (IC) from design to test is an arduous process that encompasses a number of steps, including: This is an iterative process and can take months, so every step should be ...

Jerry Cao is a content strategist at UXPin — a wireframing and prototyping app with built-in usability testing — where he develops in-app and online content for the wireframing and prototyping ...