Semiconductors are crucial components of electronics devices. It has had incredible effects on nearly every sector of society. Semiconductor industry has worth of 476.7 billion US Dollar market worldwide with year growth rates of 15.9 percent. Semiconductors’ industry is highly competitive. With 75.85 billion U.S. Dollars in revenue, Samsung Electronics becomes largest semiconductor chipmaker, leaving behind Intel with sales revenue of 69.8 billion U.S. Dollars. Currently, Semiconductor technology crossed the milestone 100.8 million of transistor’s integration just on a node of less than 10 nanometers. However, the testing cost of integrated circuit is reaching almost to the same level of the manufacturing cost of the integrated circuit. The electronics control of automobiles, as well as the rising demand for automation in vehicles along with miniaturization of integrated circuit technology, system on chip are the driving attributes which brought the semiconductor market in the sector of automobiles. Enhancing of vehicle connectivity has provided up rise in the risks of potential cyber-attacks in the automobile industry. This issue has drastically demands increased customer’s attention and awareness. Hence, requires urgent need for robust cybersecurity solutions in connected vehicles. Therefore, this talk highlights the importance and implications of automotive test, reliability, safety and security standard requirements. This presentation discusses the specific built in-system modes and highlights the benefits of selecting ISO 26262 certified solutions to ensure standardized levels of quality, safety and security requirements, amidst of fast accelerating time to market for today’s automotive systems on chips.

The results of a simulation of an LFSR-based testing technique show that when the characteristic polynomials used in the test pattern generator, as well as in the signature analyser, are primitive and reciprocal to each other then maximum aliasing errors occur.

The feasibility of combining multiple signature and multiple compression techniques to achieve a further reduction in the frequency of aliasing is studied. A critical study of the impact of primitive polynomials on the effectiveness of the scheme has been made. The observations are demonstrated through simulation results.

The paper is devoted to the achievement of higher testability goals in the BIST environment through the modification of shift registers in LFSR-based testing. The aim is here to take the unified view of the effectiveness of various test-generation and response evaluation techniques with BIST capabilities to justify the design of unified built-in testing scheme. With this objective in mind, a comprehensive analysis of the principles involved has been undertaken to evolve an effective design approach for LFSR-based testing of combinational circuits. The proposed unified testing scheme is analysed through the testing of many ICs through a simulation study. Also, the design implementation of the scheme does not require extra hardware.

Watermark is the copy deterrence mechanism used in the multimedia signal that is to be protected from hacking and piracy such a way that it can later be extracted from the watermarked signal by the decoder. Watermarking can be used in various applications such as authentication, video indexing, copyright protection and access control. In this paper a new CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) based robust watermarking algorithm using customized 8 × 8 Walsh Hadamard Transform, is proposed for the color images and detailed performance and robustness analysis have been performed. The paper studies in detail the effect of spreading code length, number of spreading codes and type of spreading codes on the performance of the watermarking system. Compared to the existing techniques the proposed scheme is computationally more efficient and consumes much less time for execution. Furthermore, the proposed scheme is robust and survives most of the common signal processing and geometric attacks.