As semiconductor applications in automotive, data center, and high-performance computing grow increasingly mission-critical, the industry faces mounting pressure to achieve near-perfect manufacturing ...

Hierarchical DFT methodology and automotive functional safety have been two recent areas of focus for Mentor, a Siemens business. Legacy design-for-test flows impose inefficiencies when transitioning ...

With any new SoC project, there are more things to go wrong than ever imagined during the optimistic early phase of defining the product, writes Ron Press, of Mentor, a Siemens Business. However, the ...

With regards to the ongoing trend of diminishing transistor geometries, we are witnessing a sharp increase in defect density along with significant on-chip process variations that affect transistor ...