Introduction The semiconductor industry is now facing a major turning point in how to realize the next generation of large-scale integration. Recently 3D integration (3DI) using through-silicon via (TSV) has widely studied and wafer thinning has been considered to be a promising technology for enhancing system performance instead of conventional two-dimensional (2D) scaling due to technical and...

According to REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals), the European legislation on chemicals and their safe use, all industrial chemicals produced or imported in quantities above 1 t/y have to be evaluated regarding their toxicological and ecotoxicological effects. Considering the currently used testing schemes, this procedure is expected to result in a signi...

Testability measures* play an important role in VLSI testing. The circuit complexity is increasing every day and so is the demand for efficient testability measures. So a brief overview of the testability measures: Basic Definitions, their need, their classifications, formulation, their significance on every day testing life and their present limitations are presented.

Individuals with autistic traits (measured with Autism-spectrum Quotient, AQ) often excel in detecting shapes hidden within complex structures (e.g. on the Embedded Figures Test, EFT). This facility has been attributed to either weaker global integration of scene elements or enhanced local processing, but 'local' and 'global' have various meanings in the literature. The function of specific glo...

OBJECTIVE To analyze trends relating to physicians' vocational integration and income composition from the Pesquisas Nacionais por Amostra de Domicílio (PNAD - National Household Sampling Surveys). METHODS PNAD microdata from 1988, 1993, 1998 and 2003 were analyzed in relation to demographic, social and occupational parameters. In the exploratory analysis, trends relating to physicians' emplo...

Instance-based ontology mapping is a promising family of solutions to a class of ontology alignment problems. It crucially depends on measuring the similarity between sets of annotated instances. In this paper we study how the choice of co-occurrence measures affects the performance of instance-based mapping. To this end, we have implemented a number of different statistical cooccurrence measur...

We present our experience in automatically deriving a detailed test case plan exclusively using the UML diagrams developed during the analysis and design phases. We consider in particular the Integration Testing of some new functionalities to be added to an Ericsson Lab Italy (ERI) existing system. In particular we compare the obtained test plan with the “official” one, which was manually deriv...

This note shows that the Augmented Dickey Fuller test is consi stent against fractional alternatives if the order of the autoregres sion does not tend to in nity too fast

Hardware-based test imposes some constraints like area overhead and processing speed degradation. In addition, with the advance in hardware integration, system-on-achip (SoC) test activities using only automatic test equipments (ATEs) results in an expensive option. The main objective of this work is to investigate and evaluate pros and cons of software-based test. Techniques, such as pattern c...

Refactoring und Testen bilden wesentliche Bausteine des Extreme Programming. In diesem Beitrag wird der konzeptionelle Zusammenhang zwischen beiden Praktiken herausgearbeitet. Insbesondere wird die Abhängigkeit zwischen der Durchführung eines Refactorings und den sich daraus ergebenden notwendigen Änderungen der Testumgebung betrachtet. Durch eine geeignete Typisierung von Refactorings werden d...