Developing and evaluating complex ICs

摘要

In the not too distant past, most ICs could be designed and manufactured to a written specification. When the IC would come back from manufacturing it would be tested on a rather limited evaluation board or EVB that allowed the designers to input real data into the chip and collect the output data to verify the ICs performance against the specifications. However, in today's increasingly complex electronic systems, signals and-data go through a long signal processing chain from the point where they are acquired to the point where they are consumed as meaningful information.