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Silicon Debug.

By Bart Vermeulen, NXP Semiconductors, and Yu-Chin Hsu and Robert Ruiz, Novas Software

Design-for-debug methodologies and data analysis can pave the path to greater efficiency in chip validation in target systems.

For reasons of cost, performance, power, and miniaturization, many electronic systems that once consisted of several printed circuit boards are now manufactured as a single semiconductor device. As a result of this complexity, previously accessible system signals can no longer be observed, and the process of isolating and analyzing silicon problems

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