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 ...

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 ...

New semiconductor technologies like FinFETs are giving rise to new types of fault effects not covered by standard stuck-at and at-speed tests. Automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) tools perform ...

This post addresses the specific hurdle of effective and efficient manufacturing tests for these complex devices. It outlines ...

There is a rapidly growing interest in the use of structural techniques for testing random logic. In particular, much has been published on new techniques for on-chip compression of automatic test ...

Automatic test-pattern generation (ATPG) has played a key role in semiconductor logic test, but several trends driving the need for semiconductor test quality are challenging traditional ATPG tools.

Today’s highly complex and large system on chip (SoC) devices and systems present many challenges to be addressed from manufacturing tests to the field while meeting stringent requirements for test ...

Small geometries have projected IC technology into an era where test has become a crucial part in the chip design process and have introduced new challenges needing solutions that use already ...