Concurrency contains costs Tester time on high-performance ATE systems can cost as much as 10 cents/sec, which might not seem like much. But if a company ships millions of ICs per month or per year, ...

IC complexity continues to rise while the cost of silicon keeps dropping in accordance with Moore’s Law. More ICs now are being implemented as system-on-a-chip (SOC), including communications ICs, ...

Modern multithreaded, asynchronous code can be hard to debug. The complexity that comes with message passing and thread management results in bugs that can seem non-determinant, with little or no way ...

As the consumer market for voice, audio, video, and data services evolves, the SOC test platform must unite a variety of leading-edge test capabilities. After talking about it for years, convergence ...