For decades, EDA industry has been working out options to improve their offerings and ensure silicon success for the semiconductor industry. A few decades back, while the EDA giants were unknown, design automation was exercised individually in every organization developing a product. Gradually these tools moved out of the design ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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Semiconductor probe card revenues are down by 0.5% in 2022.
Reaching US$1.84 billion in 2022, revenue from sockets is on track to reach a record high.
Revenue from advanced PCBs grew overall in 2022, driven by sales of DIBs.
The Top 3 probe card suppliers are FormFactor, Technoprobe, and MJC Electronics.
The Top 3 ...
Chip production testing is probably the most underestimated task by ASIC development engineers. And yet, testing is an essential step with a direct impact on final chip cost.
Let’s start with the basics. Testing of chips is necessary because the chip manufacturing process cannot provide 100% yield. Silicon foundries and assembly ...
Tel Aviv, Israel – March 24, 2022 - ATS Engineering, a leading Israeli test house, and ChipTest Semiconductor IC Test Company, have announced an exclusive collaboration agreement for developing test programs and test interfaces (load boards and probe cards) on the ATS’ Advantest V93000 Smart Scale platform, to support ATS ...
