VTS 2020 best paper_Tessent

Tessent wins Best Paper award at IEEE VLSI Test Symposium

The best paper of the 2020 symposium describes a layout-friendly EDT decompressor that reduces routing congestion associated with decompressor circuitry…

Hierarchical DFT: How to Do More, More Quickly, with Fewer Resources

Hierarchical DFT: How to Do More, More Quickly, with Fewer Resources

By Rick Fisette, Mentor Graphics Remove ATPG from the critical path to tapeout with hierarchical DFT plus test pattern retargeting…

Ensure defect-free automotive ICs with the Hybrid TK/LBIST solution that also finds faults in the DFT logic

Ensure defect-free automotive ICs with the Hybrid TK/LBIST solution that also finds faults in the DFT logic

By Rahul Singhal, Mentor Graphics Near-zero defect testing for safety-critical ICs means also testing the DFT logic.

Take scan test out of the critical path

Take scan test out of the critical path

By Ron Press, Mentor Graphics DFT with less risk to your design flow? Here’s how.  

Addressing Moore’s Law with the First Law of Real Estate: Location, location, location

Addressing Moore’s Law with the First Law of Real Estate: Location, location, location

By Beth Martin with Steve Pateras, Mentor Graphics Mentor’s novel EDT test point technology dramatically reduces ATPG pattern volume

A flexible flow for inserting embedded compression logic in RTL

A flexible flow for inserting embedded compression logic in RTL

By Ron Press Inserting test compression logic just got a lot easier.

Test Points are Trending

Test Points are Trending

By Ron Press, Mentor Graphics Mentor’s EDT test points slash pattern count, test time and cost. But how about at-speed…

Using EDT Test Points to reduce test time and cost

Using EDT Test Points to reduce test time and cost

By Vidya Neerkundar, Mentor Graphics New EDT Test Points are the next big thing in ATPG test compression