Electronic Design

How the Tessent Streaming Scan Network Addresses Next-Gen IC Test

There's a growing demand for next-generation ICs to deliver the extreme performance required for fast-evolving applications, such as AI and self-driving cars, putting tremendous pressure on the size ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Streaming Scan Network

Tessent Streaming Scan Network (SSN) is a system for packetized delivery of scan test patterns. It enables simultaneous testing of any number of cores with few chip-level pins, and reduces test time ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Packetized Scan Test

Bus-based packetized scan data decouples test delivery and core-level DFT requirements so core-level compression configuration can be defined completely independently of chip I/O limitations. Grouping ...
EDN

Transistor-level defect simulator for AMS and non-scan digital circuits

Finding a problem with your prototype board is bad enough, but when the bug is in your latest IC masterpiece, you know it’s going to be a bad day. Heads may roll. The verification of digital IC ...
Electronic Design

Talking About Mentor’s Tessent Streaming Scan Network and how it Addresses Next-Gen IC Test

Addressing the complexity of modern ICs and their multiple cores is a challenge to the testing community. Mentor's Tessent Streaming Scan Network can ease this problem. We talk to the company's Geir ...