In the real world, we are slaves to our environment. The decisions we make are dependent on the resources available at any given time. In school, I remember coming up with a binary decision diagram ...

The growth of a new IC market creates ripples along the entire supply chain. Today, we see the semiconductor industry reacting to the needs of the growing automotive IC market, including the ...

Semiconductors are the essential component fueling the growth of industries such as automotive, renewable energy, communications, information technology, defense, and consumer electronics. The rise of ...

A complete test plan includes testing the logic and all memories. That is, until the boss adds, “Oh, by the way, the DFT guy left the company, so you also get to do the test stuff. Choose any tools ...

Peripheral backend supply chain players including makers of high-end customized IC testing sockets, wafer probe cards and burn-in boards, apart from ABF substrates, are all gearing up for robust ...

Yokogawa Electric Corp. has developed a flat panel display (FPD) driver IC test system that supports high-speed interfaces. The ST6731, which will be available in March 2011, that supports interfaces ...

Recent test innovations address components ranging from passive components to integrated circuits. New and enhanced test equipment ranges from bench-top instruments, such as a Keysight impedance ...

Modular instruments provide a flexible, scalable way to test semiconductors—some of these individual instruments are described in a recent EE special report. 1 However, some modular-instrument vendors ...

Taiwan's IC test interface specialists in the supply chain of MediaTek are experiencing a slightly weaker than the past traditional off-season in the first quarter of 2023, as the mobile SoC vendor ...