Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857), a leading provider of semiconductor test solutions, today announced the expansion of its SiConic® ecosystem into a new Design-for-Test (DFT) Engineering environment.

Assertions and assertion IP (AIP) are a core part of the register transfer level (RTL) verification environment for all modern chip development projects. Assertions can be considered as statements of ...

Debug has always been a painful and unavoidable part of semiconductor design and, despite many technological advances, it remains one of the dominant tasks in chip development. At one time, most bugs ...

Editor’s Note: Lauro Rizzatti went to Russell Klein, director of engineering at Mentor Graphics and a hardware emulation expert, to learn more about hybrid emulation. This column is co-authored by the ...

Debugging is pervasive in both computing education and more generally in problem-solving across many disciplines. "Debugging by Design" focuses on the development of debugging for engineering ...