Increases in the average gate count of ASIC designs is forcing design teams to spend 20 percent to 50 percent of their ASIC development effort on test-related concerns to achieve good test coverage.

To meet the increasing size of ICs, required to accommodate the integration of billions of transistors in order to deliver the performance required for tasks such as AI and autonomous vehicles, Mentor ...

Commonly recognized DFT rule s include the following: Designs should be fully synchronous with a common clock. Asynchronous inputs to storage elements must be disabled from an external pin during ...