A Primer on Design For Test

In a previous article I alluded to Design for Test (DFT) by mentioning a specific example.

The techniques have been around for decades.  Just how long ago though?

I searched on “Design for Test” in the IEEE paper data base; the search resulted in 760 references the oldest being 1983.

Hmm there had to be earlier papers?  So next I plugged in the key words “Design For Testability.” This time a list of 4,235 references appeared, the oldest one published in 1978. [Read more…]