As boring as propeller designs may seem to the average person, occasionally there’s a bit of a dust-up in the media about a ‘new’ design that promises at least a few percent improvement in performance ...

Design-for-test, or DFT, should facilitate high-quality test, not change the design. Test techniques and strategies need to supply a high-quality test that screens out defective devices, avoiding ...

After testing 150+ products under a metaphorical microscope, our lab test editor found that industry standards don't always ...

Boeing hasn’t decided where it will build the 777X, but it has already started testing designs of the new airplane. Wind tunnel testing of Boeing’s newest jet began last Thursday at a facility about ...

When semiconductor devices had geometries of 0.18 microns and larger, most defects manifested themselves as static faults. Test strategies based on stuck-at fault-model scan patterns and standard ...

Memory test at-speed isn't easy but can be achieved by balancing test selection, area overhead, and test-time constraints. The semiconductor industry has intensified its focus on yield issues to meet ...

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The advent of delivering 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections to the enterprise and data center opens up a myriad of test challenges. Constructing a comprehensive and standards-based test environment is ...

In this digital world, it may be hard for some to believe that there’s still a place for anything manual or physical—especially in the engineering realm. And, while it’s true that today’s technologies ...