The MEMS Testing Quagmire

Players are Increasingly Looking for Extrication

by Bryon Moyer

Testing is an unfortunate but important requirement for being in the chip business. Unfortunate because it’s expensive and, well, annoying. Important because no one would trust electronics that had never been tested. And systems builders would end up throwing a lot of useless stuff away. It’s the “failure costs 10x as much for each later stage at which it’s caught” thing.  Read More


latest news

May 15, 2012

Honeywell Test & Measurement Introduces New Line of Global Industrial Pressure Sensors for Rugged Applications

May 11, 2012

Agilent Technologies Announces Voice-over-LTE Test System Developed with Brüel & Kjær

May 02, 2012

Tektronix Enhances Optical Modulation Analysis Solution

Agilent Technologies Introduces 6-GHz Signal Generators with Industry-Best Performance

April 26, 2012

Agilent Technologies’ Advanced Design System Selected by Comtech EF Data for Satellite Communications, High-Frequency Power Amplifier Design

April 25, 2012

Agilent Technologies to Demonstrate New High-Performance Test Solutions at CTIA Wireless Show

April 16, 2012

Ixia, QualiSystems, And ONPATH Technologies Partner To Provide Complete Lab Automation Solution For Network Testing

Protecode Announces Streamlined Audit Service for Discovering Open Source and Third Party Code

April 11, 2012

QualiSystems Enables Manual Testers to Benefit from Automation Techniques to Speed Set-up, Improve Overall Testing

Agilent Technologies Introduces World’s Fastest Real-Time Oscilloscopes with 63-GHz True Analog Bandwidth

April 06, 2012

Agilent Technologies Introduces Fast, Accurate LCR Meter for Testing High-Frequency Passive Components

Agilent Technologies, ETS-Lindgren Host CTIA Wireless MIMO OTA Educational Panel Discussion

April 05, 2012

Agilent Technologies Test Solution for Thunderbolt, DisplayPort and Dual-Mode DisplayPort Now Being Used by Granite River Labs, Taipei

Agilent Technologies Introduces the First Wideband, Dual-Channel PXI Vector Signal Analyzer with Streaming Capabilities for Detecting and Identifying RF Interference

Tektronix Announces DDR3-2133, DDR3-2400 Logic Debug, Protocol Validation Solution

Test News Archive

Bashing Bugs

by Dick Selwood


Not Your Father's JTAG

by Dick Selwood


Two Conversations at Once

octoScope Reduces the Cost of MIMO Testing

by Bryon Moyer

Necessary and Sufficient?

A Closer Look at Cell-Aware Modeling

by Bryon Moyer

Are You Covered?

Software Test Coverage Isn’t as Straightforward as You Might Hope

by Bryon Moyer

Test Article Archive

 

Editors' Blog

Software Model Test Reuse

You test your algorithms when you model them. But when someone writes the actual code and then tests it, how can you be sure they’re performing exactly the same tests? (21-Mar)

What Comes Around… Is Reflected?

A couple years ago at DesignCon, Intel proposed a new way of testing the insertion loss of differential traces on a PC board. A couple years later, it’s being incorporated into test equipment. (6-Feb)

Validating Serial Protocols

If you want to convince yourself that your super-fast protocol running on a high-speed serial link really works in the real world, you need to test it with something that can actually run at speed. (14-Dec)

Closing the Thermal Loop

Mentor does something with thermal that electrical folks had to do a while ago. (12-Dec)

Describing User-Defined Faults

The Cell-Aware fault modeling approach allows ad hoc faults to be identified, but how do you communicate those faults to the test-generation tools? Especially if you have some faults you want to define by hand? (28-Nov)

Test Editors' Blog Archive

 

forum

Racing Electronics

Posted on 05/16/12 at 1:22 PM by Jim Turley

Jim Turley
Nice article, Dick. Count me among the envious.

MIPS Plants a New Family Tree

Posted on 05/15/12 at 5:17 PM by kevin

kevin
I think, in processor architecture diagnosis, the term is no longer "hyperAptiv" but "Application Deficit Disorder" - it's when you have a great new processor but not many applications run on it yet...

The Process of Process Tracking

Posted on 05/15/12 at 3:01 PM by Jim Turley

Jim Turley
It's the devil's work, I tell you! Repent!

Oh, wait... It's Satin, not Satan.

Never mind.

MIPS Plants a New Family Tree

Posted on 05/15/12 at 2:59 PM by Jim Turley

Jim Turley
I asked about "hyperAptiv" but suspect that it was considered and discarded.

MIPS Plants a New Family Tree

Posted on 05/15/12 at 11:25 AM by kevin

kevin
The FPGA companies have done this as well. First, Altera with their 3-tiered Stratix, Arria, Cyclone designations. Then, more recently, Xilinx with Kintex, Artix, Virtex. Seems like it's a trend.

MIPS could now come out with a series of passive comp…

Test Forum Archive

subscribe to our test and measurement newsletter



Test On Demand Archive


Login Required

In order to view this resource, you must log in to our site. Please sign in now.

If you don't already have an acount with us, registering is free and quick. Register now.

Sign In    Register