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Power supply noise and related issues have become critical for designs at 90nm and below due to the combination of several factors. Timing slowdown and functional failures are becoming common in these ...

Technology scaling to 90nm and below brings higher performance and higher levels of on-chip functional integration. This scaling, however, has brought with it a variety of new or exacerbated issues, ...

The use of design-based care areas on inspection tools [1, 2] to characterize defects has been well established in recent years. However, the implementation has generally been limited to specific ...

Evidence is mounting that traditional “waterfall” methods used to develop complex ICs are reaching the breaking point. Consider that today: Some IC designs contain more than 100 blocks that must be ...

Shipping high-quality ICs requires that design-for-test (DFT) methodologies be included in a design. DFT provides external access at the device’s I/O pins to internal registers to either control or ...

Are methodology manuals selfishly motivated by the vendors who produce them? Sure they are, but that doesn't mean there's nothing in it for you as a design engineer. Here's an introduction to the FPGA ...