Saying that advanced ICs are complex is an understatement. The seemingly endless progression to smaller geometries, the ever-increasing integration between analog and digital blocks, and the ...

Electronic system designs often include transient protection to ensure system robustness for electrostatic discharge (ESD) events. Adding external ESD protection without compromising system I/O speed, ...

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 ...

The standard approach in industry for post-manufacturing testing of mixed-signal circuits is to measure the performances that are included in the data sheet. Despite being accurate and straightforward ...

Sigurd Microelectronics, which specializes in wafer probing and final testing of ICs, expects to enjoy growing revenue generated from orders for automotive chips including networking ICs and MCUs in ...

You might have expected that voltages that don't faze older generations of ICs—say, those that operate from 5V supplies—can kill newer semiconductors—for example, devices that op-erate from 1.5V. If ...

TOKYO, JAPAN--(Marketwired - Nov 25, 2013) - Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857) (NYSE: ATE) has introduced a new 64-channel, general purpose ...

The automotive industry is producing vehicles with increasing levels of real-time decision-making, enabled by thousands of ICs, sensors, and multi-chip packages, but making sure these systems work ...

Such circuits can now have more than 100 million parts, and much of the design work and testing is done by computer. Specifications for most basic logic functions reside in code repositories, and ...