Since the first transistors went into production almost six decades ago, semiconductor manufacturers have looked for ways to reduce test time and manufacturing costs. As the industry has grown from ...

The semiconductor industry is driven by market demands forsmaller form factors, greater functionality, higher performance,lower power, component availability, and the need to integrate evermore ...

Stutensee, GermanyHans Baka started to work for Digitaltest in Stutensee in 1994 as marketing and sales manager and became managing director in 1997. Before joining Digitaltest, he held ...

Semiconductor manufacturers continue to look for ways to reduce the cost of test for producing mixed-signal SOC and SIP devices. Parallel test strategies, known as multisite test, implemented on ATE ...

Concurrency adds complexity for which the industry lacks appropriate tools, and the problem has grown to the point where errors can creep into designs with no easy or consistent way to detect them. In ...

Dave Armstrong, director of business development at Advantest, discusses the usefulness of concurrent test and describes how to maximize the value of this approach.

Owing to the prevalence of multicore processors, more and more programs are written in a multi-threaded style to improve performance. However, associated concurrency errors have become an inconvenient ...