Mastercard is officially the first major card vendor to introduce a biometrics-based payment card after the company announced successful trials of this new technology in South Africa. The company's ...

Scan insertion to improve test coverage and reduce test pattern volume is very common in today’s DFT tools. All of the major ATPG tool vendors (Synopsys, Cadence, and Mentor) offer this approach in ...

This robot, built out of LEGO bricks and a Raspberry Pi, brute-forced an iPhone for PIN codes. Security researchers from the Ruhr University Bochum, Max Planck ...

With advanced technology nodes, the SoCs are growing in density and gate count. This creates challenges regarding the testability, and more importantly, the test cost. The design complexity and size ...

These days, there is a requirement of achieving high frequency targets with lower power consumption. Achieving both targets simultaneously is very difficult and the situation becomes even more complex ...

Forget fumbling for your UPI PIN at the checkout counter. Amazon Pay has launched a feature that lets customers approve ...

UK banks are working on new technology that will let you make card payments using your fingerprint YOUR next bank card might ditch rubbish PIN numbers – and use your fingerprint to verify your ...

As design size and complexity increase, so too does the cost of test. Both the design community and the test industry are looking at various approaches to lower the cost of manufacturing test. This ...

At Alcatel-Lucent, we test chassis-level products that provide 42 board slots on a midplane, essentially a passive backplane that accepts boards on its front and rear sides. Thirty-four of those slots ...