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GM's Variable Valve Timing System Performance Test - 15 Degrees Of Separation - Speed Parts Testing

The tough guy in you says to stab that cam in retarded a few degrees for maximum top-end horsepower, while your more practical alter ego suggests advancing it a hair for improved low-end torque and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Pinpointing Timing Delays Can Improve Chip Reliability

Growing pressure to improve IC reliability in safety- and mission-critical applications is fueling demand for custom automated test pattern generation (ATPG) to detect small timing delays, and for ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Pinpointing Timing Delays in Complex SoCs

Telemetry circuits are becoming a necessity in complex heterogeneous chips and packages to show how these devices are behaving post-production, but fusing together relevant data to identify the ...
Electronic Design

Using Timing Constraints For Generating At-Speed Test Patterns

Handling timing exception paths in ATPG tools while creating at-speed patterns has always been a tough and tricky task. It is well understood that at-speed testing is a requirement for modern ...
EDN

FPGA design tool ups timing performance

PlanAhead version 8.1 hierarchical design and analysis software is said to provide a two-speed-grade performance optimization for Xilinx FPGAs by improved floor planning, timing analysis, and resource ...
Electronic Design

Timing Decisions 102: Optimize Your Clock Tree

The importance of timing requirements and jitter budgets for FPGAs, ASICs, and SoCs. How to utilize the information portrayed in a clock tree to choose the most well-suited clock generator for your ...