At-speed testing and delay defect analysis have become increasingly critical in ensuring the reliability and performance of modern integrated circuits. As circuit complexity grows alongside rapid ...

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 ...

Today's systematic and more subtle random defects are not only decreasing yields, but are also increasing the number of test escapes, or defective parts per million (DPPM) shipped out. One of the ...

Semiconductor companies have come to rely on delay testing to attain high defect coverage of manufactured digital ICs. Delay testing uses TD (transition-delay) patterns that ATPG ...

Final electrical test remains one of the best ways to assess a circuit’s ultimate viability. But we know that, unfortunately, even 100% end-of-line electrical testing of semiconductor wafers will not ...