The PR rolls in…
As I was expecting, as ITC comes upon us, the press releases will start up. Today’s EETimes on-line contains an article entitled “Synopsys Develops New ATPG Technology“. That’ll catch a DFT person’s eye, for sure.
If you read the article, it talks about small delay defects in sub-90nm processes. The new technology will take PrimeTime info and direct the ATPG tool to target paths with the least slack when attempting to catch faults, instead of the easiest ones, which is what current ATPG tools do (probably to make pattern generation faster). Sounds like a good thing to do. I wonder what the ATPG run-time will look like…
This sounds a whole like what Cadence advertises with their Encounter True-time Delay Test, but I haven’t studied that product. Anybody out there have hands-on with it?
Synopsys is not revealing details until ITC, so I guess…
…only time will tell.
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