Title :
DFT and Verification implementations for Carrier Grade Systems
Author_Institution :
Nortel, Toronto, ON
Abstract :
The Telecommunication Industry is facing tremendous economic challenges including operational cost containment while attempting to deliver increasingly more complex systems and providing a consistently higher level of quality and customer service across wide geographical areas. Since customer pressure to keep price down is relentless, this has driven telecommunication equipment makers to outsource their manufacturing operations to EMS partners operating in low cost geographies and subsequently to also outsource their R&D activities including new product introduction (NPT). This outsourcing model relies on product development being spread among several R&D sites worldwide, along with external partners.
Keywords :
costing; customer services; industrial economics; outsourcing; product development; research and development; telecommunication services; DFT; NPT; R and D activity; carrier grade system; customer service; manufacturing operation outsourcing; new product introduction; operational cost containment; telecommunication equipment maker; telecommunication industry; Automatic testing; Availability; Circuit faults; Circuit testing; Costs; Hardware; Manufacturing; Process design; Research and development; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Design and Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era, 2008. DTIS 2008. 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tozeur
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1576-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1577-9
DOI :
10.1109/DTIS.2008.4540202
