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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our October print edition includes a feature article on modular systems for IC test, and our July issue included a special report on bench and modular instruments for semiconductor test applications.

Altera Corp. and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have jointly developed the world’s first heterogeneous 3D IC test vehicle using TSMC’s Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate (CoWoS) ...

Research on 3D stacked IC (3D-SIC) technology has advanced to the point where most semiconductor companies have released or announced 3D-SIC products. These packages require multiple chip dies to be ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Today we were invited to GeIL's Taipei factory to get an up close and personal tour of its facilities for testing and producing its RAM modules. Since GeIL ...