Semiconductor Engineering

An Optimal Path To DFT Automation

To keep up with time-to-market demands when SoCs keep increasing in size and complexity requires the adoption of better DFT flows and technologies. One of the most successful changes in ...
Electronic Design

Automotive design example illustrates hierarchical DFT architecture

Fort Worth, TX. Designs keep scaling and taking on a lot of complexity, according to Ron Press, technology enablement director at Mentor Graphics. Delivering a corporate presentation Wednesday on the ...
C&EN

Machine learning solves a long-standing DFT problem

Knowing where the electrons are within a molecule can go a long way to explaining its structure, its properties, and its reactivity. Chemists use density functional theory (DFT) methods, ...
EDN

Filter banks, part 2: Optimization and synthesis

Before we proceed, let's quickly review our filter bank example. Our example, shown in Figure 1, is a size 16 DFT filter bank. The color scheme shows the sample rate change where a 16 MHz input sample ...