Semiconductor Engineering

Simplify DFT For Advanced SoCs

The purpose of electronic design automation (EDA) software is to solve SoC design problems and simplify the entire process. For design for test (DFT), this means aiming to streamline the DFT ...
Electronic Design

Design-For-Test The Smart Way: dFT With A "Big T" And A "Little d"

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 ...
Electronic Design

What’s Next for Physically Aware DFT?

Why isolated flows negatively impact design schedule and PPA. Benefits of unified DFT, synthesis, and physical design flows. Physical implementation optimization methods for test compression and scan ...
Semiconductor Engineering

A Practical Approach To DFT For Large SoCs And AI Architectures, Part I

The traditional processors designed for general-purpose applications struggle to meet the computing demands and power budgets of artificial intelligence (AI) or machine leaning (ML) applications.
Design-Reuse

Pre-configured DFT structures can simplify ASIC design, verification

Steven Kawamoto, Sr. Marketing Manager, Custom LSI Solutions Unit, Gaku Ogura, Sr. Marketing Manager, Design Solutions Center, Richard Lee, Design Engineer, Design Solutions Center, NEC Electronics ...
Design-Reuse

DFT for SoC : The Economic Myths

It is often said that the emergence of the System-on-Chip will require fundamental changes in the approaches to design for testability (DFT.) These changes, it has been suggested, will take the form ...