Researchers from China University of Petroleum (East China), in collaboration with international partners, have reported a ...

EDA start-up DeFacTo Technologies has the ambitious goal of making obsolete gate-level DFT (design for test) by moving DFT further up in the IC-design process to the RTL (register-transfer level) ...

The use of hierarchical DFT methods is growing as design size and complexity stresses memory requirements and design schedules. Hierarchical DFT divides the design into smaller pieces, creates test ...

Density functional theory (DFT) is a widely used computational method for carrying out quantum calculations in chemistry, materials science, and biology research. Despite its enormous popularity and ...

The paper explores in detail the intricate relationship between the results of the quantum-chemical calculations and the approximations they rely upon. When chemists want (or need) to include some ...

Digital design is, of necessity, performed at a very high level of abstraction. When dealing with millions to hundreds of millions of transistors, working at the transistor level is completely ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Engineers from three semiconductor companies detailed their experience using novel design-for-test techniques to speed chip testing during volume manufacturing at the International ...

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 ...