Test Connections Clean Up With Real-Time Maintenance


Test facilities are beginning to implement real-time maintenance, rather than scheduled maintenance, to reduce manufacturing costs and boost product yield. Adaptive cleaning of probe needles and test sockets can extend equipment lifetimes and reduce yield excursions. The same is true for load board repair, which is moving toward predictive maintenance. But this change is much more complicate... » read more

Fabrication And Characterization Of Junctionless FETs


New technical paper titled "Planar Junctionless Field-Effect Transistor for Detecting Biomolecular Interactions"  was published from researchers at Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics, University of Twente, University of Glasgow, and Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). Abstract "Label-free field-effect transistor-based immunosensors are promising candidates for ... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: March 3


Optimizing fiber networks Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology are working towards reducing the energy consumption of fiber optic communications before the amount of electricity required by the Internet becomes too great to manage. To improve overall efficiency, the team tackled several aspects of fiber optic cables. One of the major energy drains the team identified was the err... » read more

What Is SOTIF?


Arteris IP’s Kurt Shuler discusses new system-level best-practices approach to automotive design that will be used for both diagnostics and forensics when something goes wrong with autonomous vehicles. https://youtu.be/nC3TkF7c0Oo » read more