TOKYO, May 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857) today unveiled SiConic Test Engineering (TE), the newest addition to the SiConic ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NIWeek – NI (Nasdaq: NATI), the provider of a software-defined platform that helps accelerate the development and performance of automated test and automated ...

In increasingly complex SoC designs, many of which contain multiple cores and multiple modes, determining best practices for testing and debugging is a moving target. Jason Andrews, architect at ...

Troubleshooting communications test systems can be made easier if the hardware and software development are separated from each other. Problems can be more readily found and corrected by following ...

Debugging today’s advanced systems-on-chip (SoCs) is anything but simple. SoC verification environments require tests spanning billions of cycles (Fig. 1). 1. Many classes of bugs become visible only ...

There’s an old saying about simulation: “It’s all about the need for speed.” Simulation is the core technology for functional verification of semiconductors, and the demand for higher runtime ...

Back in the day, we'd write some code, compile, execute, see what happened and repeat. That was testing. (Sometimes that's still what testing looks like, for better or worse.) Today, we can do a lot ...

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 ...

Quark is an electrical measurement probe and debugging tool powered by open-source software written in the Arduino environment. Currently featured on the crowdfunding site Crowd Supply, the Quark ...

Made up of software and hardware that targets either board-level or embedded memory applications, the DDR3 protocol debug and validation test suite is said to be the industry’s first DDR3 test tool, ...