By profiling the scan vectors for power dissipation, Open-Silicon is able to select those tests with lower thermal impact and power mesh currents and greatly increase their frequency.
“The ASIC industry often focuses on supply chain for cost reduction,” said Naveed Sherwani, chief executive officer and president of Open-Silicon. “Open-Silicon’s MAX technologies are focused on making the best possible custom silicon, including design for lowest cost. Last year’s introduction of VariMAX™ enabled the highest manufacturing yields by managing process variability, and now TestMAX complements that by lowering device test costs.”
TestMAX’s scan shift frequency scaling technology won the SNUG best paper award in 2007.
Open-Silicon is a US-based open market semiconductor manufacturer and provider of spec-to-silicon ASIC design services.
