EDN

Moving DFT into chip design with hardware emulation

Of all the electronic design automation (EDA) tools on the market, design for test (DFT) may be the most under-appreciated; even though building testability into a chip during the design phase will ...
EDN

How DFT conquers chip complexity (continued)

Q: How important is DFT among semiconductor manufacturers? A: Given the complexity of chips being designed today, every semiconductor company knows how vital DFT is to ensuring product reliability.
Electronic Design

DFT app supports hardware emulation

Design for testability (DFT), a way to build testability into an integrated circuit (IC) at the design stage to lower testing costs and increase manufacturing yield, has been around for many years in ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Shift Left In DFT Design

The semiconductor industry continues to face numerous challenges as designs approach reticle limits, process nodes evolve and engineering resources become increasingly stretched. It is essential to ...
Design-Reuse

GUC Leverages 3DIC Compiler to Enable 2.5D/3D Multi-Die Package

WeiHsun is a guest author and Deputy Manager, Core Methodology Department, at Global Unichip Corp. In the rapidly evolving world of ASIC design, the shift from monolithic to 2.5D and 3D multi-die ...
Design-Reuse

ARM And Synopsys Announce Availability Of Reference Methodology For All Synthesizable ARM Cores

CAMBRIDGE, UK AND MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA. – March 3, 2003 – ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC processor solutions, and Synopsys, Inc.