Delay-inducing defects are causing increasing concern in the semiconductor industry today, particularly at the leading-edge 130- and 90- nanometer nodes. To effectively test for such defects, the ...

EAST AURORA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Astronics Corporation (NASDAQ:ATRO), a leading provider of advanced technologies for the global aerospace, defense and semiconductor industries, announced today ...

A new technical paper titled “Aging Aware Steepening of the Fault Coverage Curve of a Scan Based Transition Fault Test Set” was published by researchers at Purdue University. “Chip aging may result in ...

Test point selection and fault diagnosis remain critical challenges in the analysis and maintenance of analog systems. As these systems operate with continuous-valued signals and are susceptible to ...

Scan is a structured test approach in which the overall function of an integrated circuit (IC) is broken into smaller structures and tested individually. Every state element (D flip-flop or latch) is ...

New non-volatile memories (NVM) bring new opportunities for changing how we use memory in systems-on-chip (SoCs), but they also add new challenges for making sure they will work as expected. These new ...

The Smart-Thump from HDW Electronics is a fully integrated underground cable fault locating system that requires less training than a traditional thumper because it interprets the results of the ...

Download this article in PDF format. Finding the right balance among test cost, test quality, and data collection for running diagnosis requires consideration of several competing factors. Luckily ...