Exploring the Mysteries of System-Level Test

System-level test, or SLT, is an increasingly important process step in today's integrated circuit testing flows. Broadly speaking, SLT aims at executing functional workloads in operational modes. In this paper, we consolidate available knowledge about what SLT is precisely and why it is used despite its considerable costs and complexities. We discuss the types or failures covered by SLT, and outline approaches to quality assessment, test generation and root-cause diagnosis in the context of SLT. Observing that the theoretical understanding for all these questions has not yet reached the level of maturity of the more conventional structural and functional test methods, we outline new and promising directions for methodical developments leveraging on recent findings from software engineering.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure

Test and Diagnosis of Integrated Circuits

The ever-increasing growth of the semiconductor market results in an increasing complexity of digital circuits. Smaller, faster, cheaper and low-power consumption are the main challenges in semiconductor industry. The reduction of transistor size and the latest packaging technology (i.e., System-On-a-Chip, System-In-Package, Trough Silicon Via 3D Integrated Circuits) allows the semiconductor industry to satisfy the latest challenges. Although producing such advanced circuits can benefit users, the manufacturing process is becoming finer and denser, making chips more prone to defects.The work presented in the HDR manuscript addresses the challenges of test and diagnosis of integrated circuits. It covers:- Power aware test;- Test of Low Power Devices;- Fault Diagnosis of digital circuits

UWOMJ Volume 78, Issue 3

Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistryhttps://ir.lib.uwo.ca/uwomj/1017/thumbnail.jp

Lean healthcare: a cross-section of South African ARV clinics

A Research Report submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Engineering Date: 28th May 2018The aim of this study is to assess waste in Anti-Retroviral (ARV) Clinics. This is against the background of an overburdened public sector – that serves a large percentage of the population in South Africa. South Africa is home to the to the world’s largest epidemic with approximately 7,06 million - 18.0% of general population, living with HIV as of 2017 (1). The objective of the study is to identify and categorise the drivers of waste present ARV Clinics - to evaluate the resultant impact of waste on the governance and administration of ARV Clinic operations as well as service delivery to the patient. Frameworks have been developed to measure and assess waste – with the hope that they will pave a pathway for the introduction of lean in ARV Clinics and in time the public health system. To achieve this, the research employs a qualitative analysis design approach incorporating both primary sources (multiple case studies) and secondary sources (academic publications and grey literature) of data. The study found that there is an abundance of waste in the daily operations of the ARV Clinics – there are very few people in the clinics and hospitals who ‘see’ these wastes because there is a need to develop the capabilities of the staff, as they are the essential foundation for improving partnerships, processes and the provision of service. However, the waste did not only exist at operational levels – the biggest potential for elimination of waste laid at the top, with the National Department of Health (NDoH), where policies and budgets are rolled out that affect what happens to the ARV clinics – a holistic approach to transformation needs to be considered. The research provides a contribution to knowledge in three key areas: firstly, through the development of frameworks, secondly through the validation of the frameworks via multiple case studies; and thirdly suggestions that provide a narrative that explain the link between waste - overall performance of ARV Clinics and the quality of service to patients.MT 201

Erasmus Journal Of Medicine

__Contains:__ 'The role of positron-emission tomography in the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis' by N.v.d. Schaft, K. Compagne, A. Groenendijk, M. Vis 'Long-term outcome in adult patients after surgery for isolated pulmonary valve stenosis in childhood' by B.C.E. Kramer, W.J.v. Genuchten, M.E. Menting 'Clinical impact of single nucleotide polymorphism identification associated with the development of testicular germ cell cancer' by J. Bosch, F. Shalizi, L. Looijenga 'Incidence and severity of herpes zoster after organ transplantation' by N. Bouma, K. Esuon, K. Kolloen, R. de Bruin, N. v. Besouw 'Peptide YY and reduction in food intake: fact or fiction?' by L. Al-Hassany, E.H. Adriaansens, A.J. v.d. Lelij 'The efficacy and safety of non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants in the treatment of acute venous thromboembolism' by L. Küsters, A. Snel, M. Kruip 'Reversibility of tenofovir nephrotoxicity in HIV-positive patients' by Y.K. de Boer, R. de Lannoy, R. Orhan, B. Rijnders 'The relationship between maternal migration and an increased risk of childhood autism' by A.R. v.d. Endt, M. Stegenga, M. Ivanova 'Should financial compensation be given for living kidney donation?' by S. de Graaff, E. v. Beeck 'The increasing use of computed tomography to assess body composition and its clinical relevance' by T.A. Trenning, A. Gharbharan, S. Levolger, J.L.A. v. Vug

The impact of vascular calcification on ambulatory and central aortic blood pressure in a South African dwelling dialysis population : a clinical, radiological and pathophysiological study of vascular health in a young prevalent dialysis population in a developing country

Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.In Sub-Saharan Africa, the prevalence of vascular calcification (VC) in CKD-5D is unknown. We undertook to determine the effect of ethnicity on VC, the risk factors for VC, the utility of abdominal X-ray (AXR) in predicting coronary calcium score (CCS) and the effect of VC on central aortic systolic pressure (CASP) and left ventricular mass index (LVMI) in South African dialysis patients. ... Black race significantly protects from VC in South African CKD-5D patients and warrants further study. The AXR is a useful screening tool for CCS in our population. VC does not appear to influence CASP in our population

My future and I:cardiovascular risk stratification of asymptomatic individuals

In the coming decades, a continuing increase in the number of cases of coronary heart disease (CHD) is expected. This is caused by, amongst others, the increasing prevalence of obesity and diabetes, and the rising numbers of elderly citizens. The morbidity and mortality toll of CHD is high. In many cases, a coronary event occurs acutely, without earlier signs suggesting CHD. So how can we identify individuals in the asymptomatic population at high risk of CHD, and prevent coronary events? Cardiovas- cular risk estimation in the general population is based on determining risk factors such as hypertension and smoking. Risk factor levels can be used to calculate a risk-scoring algorithm, like the European SCORE, and guide medical therapy. Unfortunately, risk factor based algorithms are neither highly sensitive nor specific. Accurate identification of asymptomatic indi- viduals who will develop a coronary event is challenging