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Even today testers cost millions of dollars, chip designers spend ages optimising their test vectors to minimise how long each chip spends on that expensive tes
by Taniwha 4y ago
Even today testers cost millions of dollars, chip designers spend ages optimising their test vectors to minimise how long each chip spends on that expensive tester (or testers, often you do die sort to weed obvious bad dies before packaging)
- lin83 4y agoTesters are fascinating. I worked on firmware for a part under test and was amazed that tests are often literal vectors of bits and that interfaces (UART, JTAG etc) are bit banged. The Test team was super focused on time with the mindset being every additional second of test time was a million dollars less profit on the part.