Writing correct concurrent programs is harder than writing sequential ones. This is because the set of potential risks and failure modes is larger - anything that can go wrong in a sequential program ...

The semiconductor industry is driven by market demands forsmaller form factors, greater functionality, higher performance,lower power, component availability, and the need to integrate evermore ...

Owing to the prevalence of multicore processors, more and more programs are written in a multi-threaded style to improve performance. However, associated concurrency errors have become an inconvenient ...

Derek Wu, senior staff applications engineer at Advantest, looks at the need for doing multiple tests at the same time as chip designs become more complex, increasingly heterogeneous, and much more ...

2 - Chicken: Performance testing is considered, but an ad-hoc or inconsistent approach is taken. Limited manual concurrency testing tagged onto functional testing. No real load. Possibly some manual ...

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