Out in Front: May 23, 1996
Company unveils road map for testing core-based ASICs
LogicVision has unveiled a "road map" for supplying built-in self-test (BIST) technology to developers and users of µP cores for system-on-a-chip design. The company is developing software and design techniques that reduce test-development effort and time to market for core-based devices and provides more complete testing and better fault coverage than is customary for simpler designs. According to LogicVision, in the absence of new approaches, such as BIST, core-based design will not achieve its tremendous potential, because core-based ICs will prove to be untestable.
The company views itself as a supplier not only of design-automation tools but also of reusable test structures. To ensure acceptance of its unusual ap-proach, LogicVision is working with companies that develop embeddable µP cores; companies that manufacture custom chips that contain the cores; and designers of complex custom ICs at companies that design, manufacture, and market board- and system-level products containing custom chips.
—by Dan Strassberg
LogicVision, San Jose, CA. (408) 453-0146, fax (408) 453-0150, info@lvision.com, http://www.lvision.com.
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