Ron Press is a technical marketing manager within Mentor Graphics' Design-For-Test products, Wilsonville, Ore. He received a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Email address: ron_press@mentor.com Web site: http://www.mentor.com/
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October 26, 2006[Design View / Design Solution] Reducing The Design Impact Of DFT In The Nanometer Era
Design-for-test (DFT) is essential to ensure that complex designs can be thoroughly tested. Testing demands continue to increase as designs grow in gate count and fabrication process technologies evolve. Fortunately, advances in DFT techniques have avoided major design requirements and restrictions for test. In fact, some approaches have reduced the impact of test on designs. Structured DFT techniques are commonplace due to their high fault coverage and support...
February 3, 2005[Design View / Design Solution] Design-For-Test The Smart Way: dFT With A "Big T" And A "Little d"
Design-for-test, or DFT, should facilitate high-quality test, not change the design. Test techniques and strategies need to supply a high-quality test that screens out defective devices, avoiding their shipment to customers. Any change to the design, or special design requirements for test, will make an impact on scheduling. Moreover, any additional logic and routing will lower the product yield. Fortunately, many test technologies that have little or no impact on the design are already...
Ron Press is a technical marketing manager within Mentor Graphics' Design-For-Test products, Wilsonville, Ore. He received a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
