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


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February 22, 2012

Agilent Technologies Completes Acquisition of Accelicon Technologies’ Solutions for Semiconductor Device Modeling

February 21, 2012

Saelig's New Range of PCIe Digital I/O Cards

February 17, 2012

Agilent Technologies’ Latest Genesys Software Enhances RF System Design

Agilent Technologies Introduces Industry’s Most Comprehensive LPDDR3 Compliance Test Application

February 16, 2012

Agilent Technologies Adds Frequency Spectrum to Arbitrary Waveform Generator, Enhances Versatility

February 15, 2012

Agilent Technologies Announces 42-Mbps DC-HSDPA IP Data Throughput Solution for the 8960 Wireless Test Set

Saelig Debuts Unique Circuit Track Current Probe

February 14, 2012

Tektronix Donates Electronics Test Equipment to Washington State University Vancouver

Agilent Technologies to Demonstrate Industry-First R&D and Manufacturing Test Solutions for LTE-Advanced, LTE and HSPA+ at Mobile World Congress

February 13, 2012

Saelig's New Fault Tracker Detects Problems in Complicated Electrical Control Systems

Meggitt Sensing Systems Introduces Endevco® Miniature Accelerometers for Modal Analysis and Vibration Measurements

February 10, 2012

Setra Systems Introduces Low-Cost, High-Pressure Transducer Series for Larger Volume OEM Applications

February 06, 2012

Agilent Technologies Announces Industry’s First Eight-Channel RF Measurement Solution Addressing LTE and Beamforming

February 01, 2012

Symtavision to showcase new versions of SymTA/S and TraceAnalyzer at Embedded World 2012

R&S ZNB Network Analyzer from Rohde & Schwarz Uses the SET2DIL Signal Integrity Technique To Validate High-Speed Differential Bus Performance on PCBs

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Not Your Father's JTAG

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octoScope Reduces the Cost of MIMO Testing

by Bryon Moyer

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by Bryon Moyer

Are You Covered?

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Editors' Blog

What Comes Around… Is Reflected?

posted by Bryon Moyer

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

posted by Bryon Moyer

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

posted by Bryon Moyer

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

Describing User-Defined Faults

posted by Bryon Moyer

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)

Fighting Fire with Fire?

posted by Bryon Moyer

If you want to identify things on a wafer that might get in the way of high-fidelity EUV exposure, what would you use? (8-Nov)

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Hello Everyone,

Our apologies, but we have to temporarily turn on forum/comment moderation. It seems we have had a little bit of a spam attack. Rest assured that your posts and comments will be reviewed and posted as quickly as possible.

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Posted on 01/01/12 at 2:26 PM by kevin

Bashing Bugs

What are you doing to improve verification?

Posted on 12/16/11 at 4:12 AM by Dick Selwood

Not Your Father's JTAG

Will you be making use of the new powers in JTAG?

Posted on 12/08/11 at 12:36 PM by Dick Selwood

Soldering Skills

I recently heard an engineer say something along the lines of "Kids these days can't solder anymore."

I'm curious - how many engineers end up doing at least a little soldering as part of your lab work? How many don't solder at work, but have hobbies...

Posted on 12/06/11 at 3:12 PM by kevin

Two Conversations at Once

Are these models sufficient? Are there other models you'd like to see added to the MIMO testing suite?

Posted on 12/05/11 at 4:18 PM by bmoyer

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