Engineers who develop hardware and software for embedded computer systems gathered in Boston for the Embedded Systems Conference (September 12-15, www.esconline.com). Several companies displayed test ...

Serializer/deserializer (SerDes) transceivers are implemented in ICs today to support the latest high-speed serial interface standards. Mainstream data rates for SerDes range from 2.5 to over 10 Gbits ...

Companies specializing in circuit board and system design-for-test (DFT) tools are pursuing a variety of strategies to serve test and debug applications based on innovations they announced over the ...

Historically, testability is an afterthought in the design process. But heightening complexity of chip designs, and especially SoCs, forces testability (and manufacturability) to take a more central ...

The functionality of embedded systems is becoming more and more sophisticated, and their real-time operation makes the debugging and verification of such systems extremely difficult to do in a ...

Today's sophisticated system-on-chip (SoC) devices implement a variety of specialized microelectronic functions. Those functions, sometimes complete embedded systems in their own right, typically ...