Electronic Design

Safety Design and Certification for Test and Measurement Products Part 1

Have you ever designed a product that you thought was ready to ship only to have it fail testing by not meeting safety requirements? Months can be lost and mistakes repeated if a company doesn’t have ...
Machine Design

Physical Testing is Alive and Well Throughout the Engineering World

In this digital world, it may be hard for some to believe that there’s still a place for anything manual or physical—especially in the engineering realm. And, while it’s true that today’s technologies ...
EDN

Design for test and design for safety—software architectures made to measure

Connected devices and systems have become an integral part of our everyday life and we take this for granted. Finding the fastest way to our destination with a smartphone, reading the news on a tablet ...
Electronic Design

Using Timing Constraints For Generating At-Speed Test Patterns

Handling timing exception paths in ATPG tools while creating at-speed patterns has always been a tough and tricky task. It is well understood that at-speed testing is a requirement for modern ...
EDN

Testing op amp tools for their active filter design accuracy and dynamic range

The major op amp suppliers continue to improve and update their online design tools. Here, three of the major tools will be applied to the same relatively simple 2 nd order multiple feedback (MFB) ...