Automated Visual Inspection (AVI) is an essential part in the manufacturing process of Integrated Circuit (IC) packages. Contamination a common defect type found in IC packages ap...
Nowadays, reconfigurable and multiprocessor systems are becoming increasingly attractive for many applications. Such systems should be more and more dependable especially if error...
The ability to improve the yield of integrated circuits through layout modification has been recognized and several techniques for yield enhanced routing and compaction have been ...
Interconnect delays are increasingly becoming the dominant source of performance degradation in the nano-meter regime, largely because the wires do not scale as fast as the device...
Ray Robert Rydberg III, Jabulani Nyathi, Jos&eacut...
SIL's (Safety Integrity Levels) are used by IEC 61508:1998 [1] to characterise the required functional safety of computer control systems. For example, SIL 4, the highest rat...