Design automation is the key to the development of very large ICs. Optimizing the connection and layout of millions of gates to efficiently perform complex functions is not a job to which humans are ...

Test compression sounds like magic. Read on to learn how this trick is done. Large, complex ICs are viable because their design meets test as well as functional requirements. Design for test (DFT) was ...

As integrated circuits accommodate ever more transistors, the number of test vectors needed to test logic ICs rises dramatically. Design-automation companies are pursuing two design-for-test (DFT) ...