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What is a Burn-in Board?

Burn in Board is a printed circuit board which functions as a jig in the Burn-in process. The Burn-in Board is used as part of the ASIC reliability testing process during which components are stressed to detect failures. Burn in Boards consist of sockets to accommodate the tested ASICs and ...

Highest Performance Interlaken Chip-to-Chip Interface IP Core

Open-Silicon’s eighth-generation Interlaken IP supports up to 1.2Tbps high-bandwidth performance and up to 56Gbps SerDes rates with Forward Error Correction (FEC). This high-speed chip-to-chip interface IP features an architecture that is fully flexible, configurable and scalable, making it ideal for high-bandwidth networking applications, such as routers, switches, Framer/MAC, OTN switch, ...

Industry Trend: Evolution of Semiconductor Chip Companies to Complex Product and Service Organizations

As technologies advance, the semiconductor industry and its traditional business model face a myriad of ongoing complexities demanding an ever accelerating state of operational agility. The electronics and healthcare markets are experiencing unprecedented change through mass market consumerization and global adoption. For most chip companies, gone are the days of ...

What is Semiconductors 3.0?

I am sick and tired to hear the same buzzwords a zillion times every single day. IoT, Cognitive Computing, Cloud Computing, Fog Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Smart-whatever (from objects to cities and pretty soon toilet paper, I'm afraid). What really makes me sick is that these buzzwords are used, ...

FormFactor Named #1 Global Supplier in Test Subsystems and Focused Chip Making Equipment

LIVERMORE, Calif., May 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – FormFactor, Inc. (NASDAQ: FORM), a leading semiconductor test and measurement supplier, has been named the #1 global supplier in both the Test Subsystems and Focused Chip Making Equipment categories in TechInsights’ 2025 global semiconductor industry customer satisfaction survey. The company earned five-star ...

Andon Electronics

USA

Pioneer in the design and manufacture of innovative precision sockets used to test ICs and place them onto PC boards.

CoreTest Technologies

UK

CoreTest Technologies provides a wide array of semiconductor test equipment from sockets to ATE

ASIC Design: From Spec to Chips

An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) is a specialized integrated circuit crafted for a particular use or purpose. Typically, ASICs are tailored for products targeted for mass production, consolidating necessary electronics onto a single chip.     ASIC stands for “Application Specific Integrated Circuit.”   Despite the substantial initial design cost (known as NRE - ...

Synergie-CAD

UK

30 years producing Semiconductor test solutions (Hardware and Software). Design, Simulation, Manufacture, Assembly, Test Development and more, all by Synergie-CAD.

ASIC design for the IoT

As everybody is trying to figure out what the Internet of Things (IoT) will look like and how connected things will work, I'd like to address a question that many people have: why design your own Integrated Circuit (IC) rather than just use an off-the-shelf processor, write software and be done?   In a nutshell, because ...