About a dozen years ago, the world of test had reached an economic impasse: most digital designs had become sufficiently complex that standard scan testing techniques were no longer cost-effective.

Integrated circuit complexity and integration continuously advances, posing challenges to the development process. Market profitability, however, demands that products be designed and produced as fast ...

Despite its standardization as IEEE 1149.1 in 1990 and wide use in the industry, many test engineers and developers still do not fully understand the benefits of boundary scan test. The misconceptions ...

Companies specializing in circuit board and system design-for-test (DFT) tools are pursuing a variety of strategies to serve test and debug applications based on innovations they announced over the ...

Some new design-for-test (DFT) technologies are difficult, expensive, or risky to implement but offer significant benefits. Other technologies are easy to implement but offer minor improvements. The ...

A multiple-gated acquisition (MUGA) scan is an outpatient imaging test that looks at how well the bottom chambers of your heart (ventricles) are pumping blood out into your body. This scan may also be ...

A heart perfusion imaging scan, or myocardial perfusion scan, is a test that tells doctors how well a person’s heart pumps blood. Doctors may use this test when diagnosing the cause of chest pain or ...

Ride-hailing service Uber has always opposed fingerprinting its hundreds of thousands of drivers during background checks. But behind closed doors, Uber is exploring fingerprinting with Live Scan, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Glatter is a New York-based physician covering public health. One of the main reasons that health care providers order a ...

The court ruled that a room scan violated a student’s Fourth Amendment rights The court ruled that a room scan violated a student’s Fourth Amendment rights is a senior reviewer covering laptops and ...