Category: Test/Measurement
Test/Measurement
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Location Simulation
Spirent is getting involved in the sensor world as it crosses with their series of GNSS (satellite navigation) simulators. Inertial sensors, compasses, and satellites can…
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More Efficient Vectors
In the wake of the UCIS announcement at DAC (which we’ll cover separately later), I sat down with some of Mentor’s functional verification folks to…
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Tying Up the Missing Link
Methodics’s ProjectIC platform is intended to help manage large design projects by keeping the numerous different files associated with the design (so-called “views” – the…
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Software Model Test Reuse
Late last year, LDRA and The Mathworks announced that LDRA’s requirements tracing was being integrated into Simulink. Tracing software artifacts from requirements through to implementation…
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What Comes Around… Is Reflected?
With higher-frequency (GHz) signals becoming more prevalent on trusty old-school FR-4 boards, it’s become increasingly important to test the quality of the lines – specifically,…
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Validating Serial Protocols
When I was approached to talk about a new product from Arasan, I ran afoul of my favorite source of confusion from the Bureau of…
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Closing the Thermal Loop
It’s impossible to design an SoC today without good simulation models. Emphasis on “good.” We’ve always simulated, but, back when mask sets cost less than…
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Describing User-Defined Faults
In today’s article on cell-aware fault modeling, we described how specific layout-dependent faults can be accounted for in the test suite, increasing the test coverage…
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Fighting Fire with Fire?
Microscopy doesn’t get much attention in the general tech press (although we’re used to seeing really cool pictures taken by scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), whether…