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 ...

Memory test at-speed isn't easy but can be achieved by balancing test selection, area overhead, and test-time constraints. The semiconductor industry has intensified its focus on yield issues to meet ...

With the move to advanced process technologies, concerns over device power once largely limited to specialized markets have escalated rapidly among mainstream designers. More semiconductor companies ...

Representatives of Cadence Design Systems’ (www.cadence.com) design-for-test group were on hand at the Design Automation Conference (held June 7-10 in San Diego, CA) to describe bringing timing to the ...

In today’s highly competitive semiconductor industry, chip-design companies strive for competitive advantages by optimizing designs for PPA (Power, Performance, Area). Along with the functional logic, ...

Omron showcased advanced testing tools for compact electronics, featuring blade pins, relays, and more at DesignCon 2026.

Electronics design and testing were once two distinct functions where an electronic design was breadboarded and populated before testing. Problems that emerged during testing may have forced some time ...

Until very recently, semiconductor design, verification, and test were separate domains. Those domains have since begun to merge, driven by rising demand for reliability, shorter market windows, and ...

Join us on Wednesday, December 15 at noon Pacific for the Design for Test Hack Chat with Duncan Lowder! If your project is at the breadboard phase, or even if you’ve moved to a PCB prototype, it’s ...