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NORMATE
was founded by Dr Michael Ohletz in 1992 whilst working on the ARCIMEDES
project at Hannover University. The network is now managed and maintained
by the Microsystems
Research Group at Lancaster
University in the UK on a voluntary basis.
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| Objectives |
| NORMATE's
objectives are to: |
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 Provide
industrial and academic research engineers working in the field
of mixed signal and analogue testing with a facility for rapid
and comprehensive access to information. |
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Serve
as a dissemination facility for new techniques, tools, products
and scientific advances. |
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Promote the "science" of testing to the wider community. |
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| The
NORMATE Website |
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site has been split into a public area that aims to provide the microelectronics
community in general with summary information on advances in the field
and a member area that has been designed to provide active researchers
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Assist
in establishing links with groups working in related areas. |
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Assist
in the compilation of the most recent publications in specific
topics. |
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Access
benchmark circuits and results from benchmarking exercises. |
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Provide
industrial engineers with recent academic advances, news on
new products and access to a "pool" of experts in
specific topics. |
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| Aims |
| In general,
the work being carried out by members of NORMATE aims to: |
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Reduce the cost of testing mixed signal and analogue functions.
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Improving the quality of the test process and hence the quality
of outgoing products. |
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Advance the science of self-test, design-for-testability and
on-line monitoring. |
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Develop
diagnostic functions to improve characterisation and in-the-field
troubleshooting. |
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Improve
the test support infrastructure through advances in computer
aided test (CAT) |
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Improve the efficiency and performance of test implementation
through advances in ATE and test generation. |
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Propose, develop and implement design solutions to assist the
test development and test implementation process. |
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Assist
the design community to realise efficient solutions for implementing
fault tolerant and/or testable designs to meet time-to-market
and cost requirements expected and demanded by the user community. |
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To address application specific mixed signal and analogue test
issues related to boards, ASIC'S, MEMS, custom IC's and SOC's,
MCM's and MCP's and Microsystems. |
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It
is now widely accepted that the continued growth in complexity
and performance of integrated circuits is now elevating the importance
of mixed signal and analogue test. The emergence of the automotive
and mobile communication market and more recently the migration
towards System-on-Chip and MEMS to support post 2000 IT systems
requires, in almost all cases a mixed signal test infrastructure.
Even next generation digital chips will require a mixed signal
approach to testing due to power supply decreases and GHz frequencies.
It is our hope that NORMATE will help the community solve these
problems and where necessary, assist in the educational process
through information dissemination.
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