Recently I wrote two Java programs (for Microsoft Windows OS) that must catch global keyboard events generated by other applications concurrently running on the same desktop. Microsoft provides a way ...

Design patterns are solutions to common problems and complexities in software design. As we have discussed here before, they are classified into three distinct categories: creational, structural, and ...

Chain of Responsibility decouples the sender of a request from the receiver by allowing one or many handler objects to handle the request. The Chain of Responsibility Pattern is a common ...

The complicated silicon defect types and defect distribution of new IC manufacturing technologies can result in very low yield for new designs and technology nodes. During technology qualification ...

With the increasing complexity in design in the semiconductor industry and advanced lower technology nodes, it is important as a DFT architecture design and service engineer to signoff the chip with ...