Writing correct concurrent programs is harder than writing sequential ones. This is because the set of potential risks and failure modes is larger - anything that can go wrong in a sequential program ...

The semiconductor industry is driven by market demands forsmaller form factors, greater functionality, higher performance,lower power, component availability, and the need to integrate evermore ...

Stutensee, GermanyHans Baka started to work for Digitaltest in Stutensee in 1994 as marketing and sales manager and became managing director in 1997. Before joining Digitaltest, he held ...

Owing to the prevalence of multicore processors, more and more programs are written in a multi-threaded style to improve performance. However, associated concurrency errors have become an inconvenient ...

Since the first transistors went into production almost six decades ago, semiconductor manufacturers have looked for ways to reduce test time and manufacturing costs. As the industry has grown from ...

Semiconductor manufacturers continue to look for ways to reduce the cost of test for producing mixed-signal SOC and SIP devices. Parallel test strategies, known as multisite test, implemented on ATE ...

Concurrency adds complexity for which the industry lacks appropriate tools, and the problem has grown to the point where errors can creep into designs with no easy or consistent way to detect them. In ...

Dave Armstrong, director of business development at Advantest, discusses the usefulness of concurrent test and describes how to maximize the value of this approach.

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 ...