Semiconductor Engineering

An Optimal Path To DFT Automation

To keep up with time-to-market demands when SoCs keep increasing in size and complexity requires the adoption of better DFT flows and technologies. One of the most successful changes in ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Enhancing Silicon Reliability With In-System Test And SLM Data

A convergence of DFT techniques and the proliferation of in-silicon monitors can flag potential failures before they occur.
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 ...
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 ...