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Your laptop has a hidden hardware test and here’s why to run it

Laptops quietly monitor their own health, but most people never tap into the tools that can warn of trouble long before a crash or data loss. Built-in hardware diagnostics sit below the operating ...
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Your laptop has a built-in hardware test you’ve never run — here’s why you should

Even after using laptops for years, many users don’t even touch the most important tool: the built-in hardware diagnostics. These tests are preinstalled on every Windows laptop and Mac. Since they are ...
Electronic Design

Where Do You Utilize Hardware Test Equipment?

COVID-19 changed when and where we worked. This also can dictate the type of equipment we have available to us. Take our quick poll at the end of this article to see what others are up to. You can ...
Semiconductor Engineering

LLMs For Hardware Design Verification

A technical paper titled “LLM4DV: Using Large Language Models for Hardware Test Stimuli Generation” was published by researchers at University of Cambridge, lowRISC, and Imperial College London. “Test ...
Wired

An Exclusive Look at Reliability Labs, Where Google Stress-Tests Pixel Hardware

Smartphones are durable, powerful devices we carry everywhere. They get slightly better every year, too. Whether that's through improved glass technology that's more shatter- and scratch-proof, or ...
Semiconductor Engineering

LLM- Based Techniques To Support Behavior-Driven Development For HW Design (U. of Bremen, DFKI)

A new technical paper titled “LLM-based Behaviour Driven Development for Hardware Design” was published by researchers at ...