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Mission-Critical Devices Drive System-Level Test Expansion
By Laura Peters - 11 Jul, 2023 - Comments: 0

System-level testing is becoming essential for testing complex and increasingly heterogeneous chips, driven by rising demand for reliable parts in safety- and mission-critical applications. More and more chip manufacturers are jumping on the SLT bandwagon for high-volume manufacturing (HVM) of these devices. Unlike ATE and packaged device testing, SLT mimics actual semiconductor system opera... » read more

A Highly Wasteful Industry
By Brian Bailey - 25 May, 2023 - Comments: 1

The systems industry as a whole is not concerned about power. I know that is a bold statement, but I believe it to be true. The semiconductor industry is mildly concerned, but only indirectly. They care about power because thermal issues are limiting the functionality they can squeeze onto a chip, or in a package. Some users, such as data center operators, claim to care about power because i... » read more

Adding Security Into Test
By Ed Sperling - 04 Apr, 2023 - Comments: 0

Security is becoming a much bigger concern as more electronics are added into cars, as more devices are connected to the internet, and as the value of data continues to increase. The problem is that security is dynamic. It continues to change throughout the lifetime of a system, and some of these devices are expected to last for a decade or more. Lee Harrison, director of Tessent product market... » read more

Enabling New Server Architectures With The CXL Interconnect
By Lou Ternullo - 09 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

The ever-growing demand for higher performance compute is motivating the exploration of new compute offload architectures for the data center. Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) are just one example of the increasingly complex and demanding workloads that are pushing data centers to move away from the classic server computing architecture. These more demanding workloads can be... » read more

The Vital Role Of 1.6T Networking In Emerging Technology
By Ben Miller - 23 Feb, 2023 - Comments: 0

Although warehouses filled with acres of buzzing server racks may not seem like the most likely places to find exciting new technology, data centers play a crucial role in the emerging technologies of tomorrow. Industry 4.0, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), metaverse, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) are all high-demand applications which rely on data centers to provide powerful ... » read more

How To Raise Reliability, Availability, And Serviceability Levels For HPC SoCs
By Charlie Matar - 09 Feb, 2023 - Comments: 0

By Charlie Matar, Rita Horner, and Pawini Mahajan While once the domain of large data centers and supercomputers, high-performance computing (HPC) has become rather ubiquitous and, in some cases, essential in our everyday lives. Because of this, reliability, availability, and serviceability, or RAS, is a concept that more HPC SoC designers should familiarize themselves with. RAS may sound... » read more

Ramping Up IC Predictive Maintenance
By Anne Meixner - 07 Feb, 2023 - Comments: 0

The chip industry is starting to add technology that can predict impending failures early enough to stave off serious problems, both in manufacturing and in the field. Engineers increasingly are employing in-circuit monitors embedded in SoC designs to catch device failures earlier in the production flow. But for ICs in the field, data tracing from design to application use only recently has ... » read more

An OSAT Perspective On Semiconductor Market Trends
By Vik Chaudhry - 19 Jan, 2023 - Comments: 0

For the semiconductor industry, 2022 was a very interesting year. On one hand, it witnessed shortages in the supply chain. On the other hand, the macro-economic situation turned and demand for several consumer and computing devices plummeted. A trade war with China and ensuing localization of supply chain with passage of CHIPS act took shape in 2022. The auto industry is still recovering from t... » read more

PCIe 6.0 Takes Data Center Performance To The Next Level
By Lou Ternullo - 12 Jan, 2023 - Comments: 0

Looking back at 2022, we saw a major update to the PCI Express (PCIe) specification. PCIe 6.0 brought with it some of the most fundamental changes yet seen by the specification, resulting in some exciting capabilities that are set to take data center performance to the next level in the years ahead. PCIe has been the interconnect of choice in computing for two decades now. Its ongoing advanc... » read more

Screening For Silent Data Errors
By Anne Meixner - 10 Jan, 2023 - Comments: 0

Engineers are beginning to understand the causes of silent data errors (SDEs) and the data center failures they cause, both of which can be reduced by increasing test coverage and boosting inspection on critical layers. Silent data errors are so named because if engineers don’t look for them, then they don’t know they exist. Unlike other kinds of faulty behaviors, these errors also can c... » read more

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