When asked, many engineers will say that the goal of a test plan for a PCB is full or 100% test coverage. When pressed further, they usually admit that 100% test coverage is virtually impossible to ...

Agilent Technologies has announced a strategic partnership with Aster Technologies to enable integration of Aster's TestWay Coverage Analyst with Agilent's printed-circuit-board assembly-test ...

With the rapid growth in semiconductor content in today’s vehicles, IC designers need to improve their process of meeting functional safety requirements defined by the ISO 26262 standard. The ISO ...

Have you ever seen a salesperson boast about meeting their revenue targets without caring about whether the sale was profitable? Have your kids proudly showed you an A on their geometry test and ...

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 ...

Scan is a structured test approach in which the overall function of an integrated circuit (IC) is broken into smaller structures and tested individually. Every state element (D flip-flop or latch) is ...

The software testing industry is at a defining moment. The global software testing market reached $52.45 billion in 2024 and is projected to grow to over $57 billion in 2025. Organizations are ...

I have always been an independent thinker on automated software testing. (Unit tests, integration tests, UI tests) I am passionate about ensuring code is tested. However, I have never really cared if ...

As the cost of chip turns has grown from thousands to millions of dollars, missed design bugs are unacceptable Chip design verification used to be straightforward, if not always easy. Verification ...