Semiconductor Engineering

Improve DFT Verification And Meet Time-To-Market Goals With Emulation

What if all the DFT verification on your next big chip could be completed before tape-out? This “shift-left” of DFT verification would eliminate the need for shortcuts in verification and allow for ...
Electronic Design

Automotive design example illustrates hierarchical DFT architecture

Fort Worth, TX. Designs keep scaling and taking on a lot of complexity, according to Ron Press, technology enablement director at Mentor Graphics. Delivering a corporate presentation Wednesday on the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Testing The Stack: DFT Is Ready For 3D Devices

When existing advanced 2D designs already push the limits of design-for-test (DFT) tools, what hope do developers have of managing DFT for 3D devices? Can anyone afford the tool run time, on-chip area ...
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 ...
EDN

Filter banks, part 2: Optimization and synthesis

Before we proceed, let's quickly review our filter bank example. Our example, shown in Figure 1, is a size 16 DFT filter bank. The color scheme shows the sample rate change where a 16 MHz input sample ...