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New computational method combines modern density functional with adaptive algorithm to predict semiconductor properties

Semiconductors are central to modern technology. They are used in computer chips, solar cells, sensors, LEDs and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

How To Manage DFT For AI Chips

Semiconductor companies are racing to develop AI-specific chips to meet the rapidly growing compute requirements for artificial intelligence (AI) systems. AI chips from companies like Graphcore and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

DFT At The Leading Edge

Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the rapidly changing landscape of design for testability (DFT), focusing on the impact of advancements in fault models, high-speed ...
Electronic Design

DFT Strategies for SOC Designs

Many IC designers finally have embraced design for testability (DFT) in the form of scan insertion for digital circuit designs because of the significant time-to-production advantages these techniques ...
Design-Reuse

A Unified DFT Verification Methodology

In today’s fast growing Systems-on-Chip (SoC), incomplete or ineffective DFT support due to poor specification or loose design practices can quickly become the critical path to making market windows ...
C&EN

Machine learning solves a long-standing DFT problem

Knowing where the electrons are within a molecule can go a long way to explaining its structure, its properties, and its reactivity. Chemists use density functional theory (DFT) methods, ...
Electronic Design

CTL: The New Language of DFT

What is CTL, and why is it important to the semiconductor industry? The answers are here. Although the IEEE 1450.0 Stand-ard Test Interface Language (STIL) was adopted in March 1999, widespread ...