“Our initial review of Synopsys’ new test technology shows it can achieve up to three times higher compression compared to existing solutions,” said Roberto Mattiuzzo, SoC test and diagnosis manager at STMicroelectronics’ Central CAD and Design Solutions. “The technology can be deployed on a variety of design styles with any number of test pins and supports high-speed test clocks. It is well aligned with our ever-increasing requirements to lower the cost and raise the quality of test for our silicon products using our current and ready-for-production fabrication process.”
Engineers are increasingly testing silicon parts in parallel and at faster frequencies while adding more tests. Synopsys’ new synthesis-based test technology uses an innovative method to efficiently stream compressed test data in and out of the DFT circuitry, significantly lowering the amount of data required to achieve high test quality. This method requires fewer test pins and enables silicon parts to operate at higher frequencies while in test mode. As a result, more die can be tested in parallel, and the time required to test each die is further reduced. To deliver superior quality of results and faster turnaround time, design teams implement the DFT for the new technology with the Synopsys Galaxy™ Implementation Platform suite of tools, concurrently balancing design constraints by performing intelligent tradeoffs between speed, area, power, test and yield.
“Designersacross different industry segments have widely adopted and relied on our DFTMAX compression to reduce cost, improve quality and get their products to market on time,” said Antun Domic, senior vice president and general manager of Synopsys’ Implementation Group. “Our latest synthesis-based test innovation will help them meet more stringent test cost and quality goals within tighter design schedules.”
About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) accelerates innovation in the global electronics market. As a leader in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP, its software, IP and services help engineers address their design, verification, system and manufacturing challenges. Since 1986, engineers around the world have been using Synopsys technology to design and create billions of chips and systems. Learn more at http://www.synopsys.com.
