Nature

Computational predictions of energy materials using density functional theory

In 1929, the physicist Paul Dirac wrote, “The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the ...
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

The practicing instrumentation engineer’s guide to the DFT – Part 1: Understand DFT and FFT implementations

There are many books and articles on the Fourier Transform and its implementation available. A quick survey of these resources shows that they are not geared to the needs of the “Practicing ...
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

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 ...