EDN

Design for test or suffer the consequences

The use of redundant logic may increase product reliability. Two of the most costly functions that engineering teams developing electronic products perform are verification and test. On the surface, ...
Electronic Design

Design-For-Test The Smart Way: dFT With A "Big T" And A "Little d"

Design-for-test, or DFT, should facilitate high-quality test, not change the design. Test techniques and strategies need to supply a high-quality test that screens out defective devices, avoiding ...
EDN

Design-for-Test Techniques for Total Test Quality

With Design-For-Test (DFT), test coverage is the typical yardstick used to gauge the quality of the manufacturing tests being performed. But as next-generation designs become more complex, traditional ...
Computer Weekly

BackTrack 5 tutorial Part I: Information gathering and VA tools

BackTrack 5, code named “Revolution”, the much awaited penetration testing framework, was released in May 2011. It is a major development over BackTrack4 R2. BackTrack 5 is said to be built from ...