Emerging technologies for electronic design and test

The need for tight coupling between methodologies for design-and-test, VLSI technology, architecture and CAD has never been as strong as it is today. The design and test challenges of today are due to the sudden demand for systems that deal with multimedia, high speed networking and computing, and wireless communications, to name a few. The competitive nature of these businesses puts enormous pressure on electronic system and integrated circuit designers and test engineers to deliver reliable and complex systems with very short design intervals. Extremely large scales of integration, very high operating speeds and the proliferation of analog or mixed analog-digital designs have given rise to new problems of design verification, testing and packaging technologies.<
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