For more than four decades, scan technology has somehow eluded the radar screen of the IC test industry. As test continues to evolve and make significant newsworthy changes, scan has maintained a ...

Santa Cruz, Calif. — Think your "smart" credit cards are safe from hackers, that your company firewall is secure and that no one can steal the intellectual property in your latest chip design? Think ...

Today, PCBs are becoming more and more complex, and that means adequate test coverage is becoming harder and harder to achieve. Moreover, every test methodology has its limitations. As a result, many ...

Maybe you should try boundary scan testing now that your continuity buzzer has died. Most engineers are familiar with the theory of boundary scan testing, but what about having actual hands-on ...

Boundary Scan: What Is It? Boundary scan test techniques were first discussed in the late 1980s. At the time, experts believed that the growing complexity of chips would have a serious effect on an ...

"Scan chains provide a window into the chip." - Yervant Zorian, CTO of Virage Logic. "It's well known that scan chains are a major source of vulnerability in embedded systems." - Srinivas Ravi, ...