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.

Q: Is design for test (DFT) strictly the domain of DFT engineers? A: Certainly, there are DFT specialists, and their responsibility is to construct the DFT strategy for the chip. But verification ...

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.

SocBIST Delivers Identical Fault Coverage with 10 Times Reduction in Test Time and 400 Times Reduction in Data Volume Compared to Full Scan MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., September 30, 2002 - Synopsys, Inc.

A series of design-for-test (DFT) and automatic pattern generation (ATPG) products leverage advanced test modeling for dramatic capacity and performance gains in Synopsys' DFT Compiler. The TetraMAX ...

Synopsys has extended its DFT compiler tool allowing it to add built-in self test (BIST) circuitry to system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Registers added by the SoCBIST tool are not as extensive as full ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, USA: Synopsys Inc. announced that Synopsys' DFT MAX compression product has been successfully deployed at more than one hundred semiconductors companies from all industry segments to ...

Demand for intellectual-property (IP) reuse is rising as the IP market grows. According to Dataquest, 80% of systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) will integrate reusable IP cores by 2005. Testing cores with ...