I’ve always regarded debugging as the most difficult of engineering disciplines, whether it’s for still-on-the-bench prototypes or fielded products. It’s a hard skill to teach, takes a lot of ...

I was chatting with a friend, another experienced EE, and somehow, we began talking about today’s designs and the challenge in getting the prototype in good shape, even if not ready for release. In ...

And with complexity comes an even greater challenge: debugging complexity. Silent data corruption, elusive timing-sensitive bugs, and intricate interactions across heterogeneous components are ...

There are few areas where AI has seen more robust deployment than the field of software development. From “vibe” coding to GitHub Copilot to startups building quick-and-dirty applications with support ...

Scandump is an advanced silicon debugging technique that ingeniously repurposes DFT (Design For Testability) scan chains for functional debugging. This method allows for the extraction of states from ...

Turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. This often seems to be the way to deal with programming bugs as well. Bring out the debugger or trace tools, and the problem goes away or remains ...