Testing in the year 2024 - big changes are coming

We are facing major technological, cost & complexity challenges. Today, I believe we understand the drivers and emerging challenges — but I don't think we've grasped how these changes will impact testing and how we will deliver high quality/reliability products in the future. In this talk, I'll give my view on what Testing will be like 8 years from now. Now is the time to start planning for these changes. • Products will be a heterogeneous mix of IC components from multiple foundries — each built using technologies optimized for cost and performance — combined into a final component where this complexity is not apparent in the final application. • Products will adapt themselves to process variation, circuit marginalities, environmental changes and aging — thereby simplifying Testing and achieving superior fault tolerance and power/performance. • Data & Analytics will drive all production processes with particular improvement in exploiting real-time adaptation during the testing & manufacturing process. Testing will be viewed more as a production personalization and data collection process (driving fab/design improvements) — than just sorting pass/failing dies.