Semiconductor Engineering

DFT At The Leading Edge

Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the rapidly changing landscape of design for testability (DFT), focusing on the impact of advancements in fault models, high-speed ...
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 ...
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 ...