BIST

Aimed at automotive designs, Mentor has developed a BIST technology that the company claims can speed up the process ten-fold by making more of each scan cycle.

Validating test patterns is a notoriously tricky and laborious process. Mentor Graphics has some new ideas on that front.

Canadian startup Invionics has launched a development environment and packager intended to make it easier for users within chipmakers and design houses to build customized tools.