EDN

The practicing instrumentation engineer’s guide to the DFT – Part 1: Understand DFT and FFT implementations

There are many books and articles on the Fourier Transform and its implementation available. A quick survey of these resources shows that they are not geared to the needs of the “Practicing ...
Semiconductor Engineering

DFT At The Leading Edge

Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the rapidly changing landscape of design for testability (DFT), focusing on the impact of advancements in fault models, high-speed ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Testing The Stack: DFT Is Ready For 3D Devices

When existing advanced 2D designs already push the limits of design-for-test (DFT) tools, what hope do developers have of managing DFT for 3D devices? Can anyone afford the tool run time, on-chip area ...
Electronic Design

What’s Next for Physically Aware DFT?

Why isolated flows negatively impact design schedule and PPA. Benefits of unified DFT, synthesis, and physical design flows. Physical implementation optimization methods for test compression and scan ...
EDN

The practicing instrumentation engineer’s guide to the DFT – Part 2: Spectral leakage and windowing

What happens if we change the number of cycles of our input data to a non-integer number? With that in mind let's generate 10.5 cycles of sine wave data to use as the input to our DFT. Figure 5: For ...
Electronic Design

Design-For-Test The Smart Way: dFT With A "Big T" And A "Little d"

Design-for-test, or DFT, should facilitate high-quality test, not change the design. Test techniques and strategies need to supply a high-quality test that screens out defective devices, avoiding ...
Electronics Weekly

Dawn Aerospace unveils DFT port for propulsion and maintenance

Dawn Aerospace, the Netherlands satellite propulsion specialist, has unveiled its new on-orbit docking and refueling system, its DFT port. Specifically, it is the Docking and Fluid Transfer (DFT) port ...