Semiconductor Engineering

Smarter DFT Infrastructure And Automation Emerge As Keys To Managing DFT Design Scaling

The reality of DFT for large and complex SoCs has introduced new risk into design schedules. DFT teams end up in the critical path to tape out while waiting for portions of the design to be complete, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The Single Best DFT Move You Can Make

A proven method to simplify a complex problem is to break it into smaller chunks. In the case of today’s large, complex SoCs, this means using hierarchical methods to design the blocks, then combine ...
Design-Reuse

A Unified DFT Verification Methodology

In today’s fast growing Systems-on-Chip (SoC), incomplete or ineffective DFT support due to poor specification or loose design practices can quickly become the critical path to making market windows ...
Electronic Design

DFT Strategies for SOC Designs

Many IC designers finally have embraced design for testability (DFT) in the form of scan insertion for digital circuit designs because of the significant time-to-production advantages these techniques ...
Design-Reuse

How are you planning to verify all that DfT?

As gate counts continue to swell at a rapid pace, modern systems-on-chip (SoCs) are increasingly integrating more design-for-testability (DfT) capabilities 1. Test and diagnosis of complex integrated ...