Power management in contemporary system-on-chip (SoC) designs is almost unimaginably complex. Processors and other chip cores turn on and off as needed. Advanced features such as dynamic voltage and ...

Vijay Sontakke, who works at Intel Corporation as a design engineer, has emerged as a key contributor to the field of semiconductor testing. He has 24 years of experience in semiconductor testing. His ...

Aehr Test Systems (NASDAQ: AEHR) is a small-cap stock in the semiconductor industry. Instead of designing or manufacturing chips, the company uses equipment in the chip development process. The ...

Teradyne and Advantest manufacture automated test systems to validate chips in the early production phases, making their ...

System-level test (SLT), once used largely as a stopgap measure to catch issues missed by automated test equipment (ATE), has evolved into a necessary test insertion for high-performance processors, ...

A newly drafted IEEE standard will bring more consistency to defect metrics in analog/mixed (AMS) designs, a long-overdue step that has become too difficult to ignore in the costly heterogeneous ...