The Virat Kohli-led team had an option of retaining KL Rahul in New Zealand given his rich vein of form in the just-concluded ODI and T20I series, but they opted to reward Prithvi Shaw and Shubhman Gill for their performances in red-ball cricket.

New Zealand pace bowler Kyle Jamieson enjoyed a dream test debut, tormenting India's batsmen and taking three wickets and a catch in the deep, stealing the headlines from Ross Taylor, who was playing his 100th test.

With India at 132 for 7, Rahane knew that time was running out as he played a square drive off Trent Boult to get him a boundary.

Ishant Sharma travelled for 24 hours and arrived in New Zealand 72 hours before the start of the first Test at Wellington.

India were all out for 191 in 81 overs in their second innings. New Zealand then scored the 9 runs to win in the second over, wrapping up the opening Test in just over three days.

In the ICC World Test Championship, India continue to be placed at the top with 360 points, followed by Australia.

India's top-order failed miserably once again as New Zealand bounced back, reducing India to 90 for six at stumps on day two as a three-day finish is on the cards.

New Zealand chased down a modest victory target of 132 in just 36 overs after India's second innings folded for 124 in less than an hour on the third day.

The World Cup will now held in two parts before the Olympic Games.

A member of the holy trinity, that also included Chuni Goswami and Tulsidas Balaram, Banerjee was the last surviving scorer of the 1962 Asiad gold-winning team.

Akram also said that he listened to his gut feeling and former Pakistani captain, Imran Khan’s advice, to take Shahid Afridi on the tour to India when he was originally not supposed to be included in the squad.

India tasted huge success under Dhoni, winning the 2007 World T20 and the 2011 World Cup at home. India also won the 2013 Champions Trophy under the Jharkhand dasher, who has not played any international cricket since India's semi final exit from the ODI World Cup last July.

India dropped in the ladder largely because the record of 12 Tests victories and just one Test defeat in 2016-17 was removed in the latest chart, the ICC said in a statement.

The young spinner, who now has made a mark for himself in the international arena, said that he no longer remembers what Sivaramakrishnan had said to him as his mind was blank at that stage.

GoAir helpline, cancellation, flight status: Go Air has cancelled all flights from Delhi Airport (DEL), Mumbai Airport (BOM), and Bengaluru Airport (BLR) with flight numbers like G8 33, G8 34, G8 43, G8 44, G8 23, and G8 24 have been cancelled until April 15, 2020.

The doctors and health care workers across the country have been successful in curing a total of 1305 people who were infected with Coronavirus but their efforts could not be enough to save lives of 377 people from highly-infectious Covid-19.

The Federal Reserve’s upgraded view that growth in the world's biggest economy is “solid”...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observed the successful test of an unspecified “newly developed ultramodern tactical weapon,” state media reported Friday, in an apparent bid to apply pressure on the United States and South Korea.

That’s increasingly important in a health-care market where patients have more choices, such as going to an urgent care clinic rather than a hospital emergency room.

The extradition bill, which would cover Hong Kong’s 7 million residents as well as foreign and Chinese nationals in the city, was seen by many as a threat to the rule of law in the former British colony.

The tests could reveal the true extent of the outbreak and help separate the healthy from the sick. But some scientists have challenged their accuracy.

The study, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, noted that rapid testing kits using paper-based devices could be used on-site at wastewater treatment plants.

A test run in December was ended early when the spacecraft failed to engage its thrusters on time.

The development is likely to increase pressure on the government to adjourn the Parliament session, which the Opposition has been demanding.

Jordan’s culture ministry launched the 'My talent from my home' contest in late March, and says it has since attracted more than 67,000 participants and 18 million social network views

Formula E uses electric vehicles and hence these lithium-ion batteries go through the perfect endurance tests, with learnings percolating to road-legal vehicles in future.

Pakistan Supreme Court has passed an Order on 30th April to make amendments in the Gilgit Baltistan Order of 2018 to conduct the general assembly elections in that area.India has lodged a strong protest with Islamabad against these directions of the

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The highly contagious novel coronavirus has resulted in over 70,000 deaths globally so far. The Moblio test kit will enable same day testing and reporting, enabling patient isolation when necessary.

These kits will help the state in quick screening of suspected Covid-19 patients. The chief minister said RTKs will be sent to all districts the very next day.

The hospital’s admissions and out patient department services were sealed on March 28 after two nurses tested positive that day.

TIME, the test-prep institute, has started online courses. These include CLAT + IPM, BBA and CAT etc.

The company manufactures 38 APIs and intermediates across various therapeutic categories — respiratory, diabetology, gastroenterology, pain management, orthopedics, etc. The company has more than 850 formulation products.

GMCH has been closed for new patients and 386 people, including its Superintendent Dr R Talukdar, doctors, students and several grade three and four workers, have been quarantined.

At the time of discharge, patient will be advised to follow home isolation for further seen days as per the prescribed guidelines.

Mock test paper for CA exams 2020: In the view of Coronavirus pandemic, the Board of Studies of ICAI will be commencing the Mock Test Papers (Series-1) online this month.

The Andhra Pradesh government on Saturday said the situation was "normal" in RR Venkatapuram village, where a styrene vapour leak from the LG Polymers plant claimed 12 lives and left over 300 people hospitalized with various ailments.

The testing capacity for COVID-19 has been scaled up to around 95,000 tests per day and a total of 15,25,631 tests have been conducted so far across 332 government and 121 private laboratories, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday.

1. Only those with severe symptoms to be tested before discharge: New COVID-19 policy  The News Minute
2. Coronavirus India lockdown Day 46 live updates | Testing capacity for COVID-19 scaled up to 95,000 per day: Harsh Vardhan  The Hindu
3. 'Have prepared country for worst situation': Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on coronavirus pandemic  Times Now
4. Coronavirus India Updates, May 09: Cases near 60,000 mark; testing capacity scaled up to 95,000 per day  The Indian Express
5. Focus On Effective Surveillance Of COVID-19, Contact Tracing: Centre To 3 Southern States  FUTURE TV
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Test chips are becoming more widespread and more complex at advanced process nodes as design teams utilize early silicon to diagnose problems prior to production. But this approach also is spurring questions about whether this approach is viable at 7nm and 5nm, due to the rising cost of prototyping advanced technology, such as mask tooling and wafer costs.

Semiconductor designers have long been making test chips to validate test structures, memory bit cells, larger memory blocks, and precision analog circuits like current mirrors, PLLs, temperature sensors, and high-speed I/Os. This has been done at 90nm, 65nm, 40nm, 32nm, 28nm, etc., so having test chips at 16nm, 7nm, or finer geometries should not be a surprise. Still, as costs rise, there is debate about whether those chips are over-used given advancements in tooling, or whether they should be utilized even more, with more advanced diagnostics built into them.

Modern EDA tools are very good. You can simulate and validate almost anything with certain degree of accuracy and correctness. The key to having good and accurate tools and accurate results (for simulation) is the quality of the foundry data provided. The key to having good designs (layouts) is that the DRC deck must be of high quality and accurate and must catch all the things you are not supposed to do in the layout. Most of the challenges in advanced node is in the FEOL where semiconductor physics and lithography play outsize roles. Issues that were not an issue at more mature nodes can manifest themselves as big problems at 7nm or 5nm. Process variation across the wafer and variation across a large die also present problems that were of no consequence in more mature nodes.

The real questions to be asked are as follows:

What is the role of test chips in SoC designs?

1. Do all hard IP require test chips for validation?
2. Are test chips more important at advanced nodes compared to more mature nodes?
3. Is the importance of test chip validation relative to the type of IP protocols?
4. What are the risks if I do not validate in silicon?

In complex SoC designs, there are many high-performance protocols such as LPDDR4/4x PHY, PCIe4 PHY, USB3.0 PHY, 56G/112G SerDes, etc. Each one of these IP are very complex in and by itself. If there is any chance of failure that is not detected prior to SoC (tapeout) integration, the cost of retrofit is huge. This is why the common practice is to validate each one of these complex IP in silicon before committing to use such IP in chip integration. The test chips are used to validate that the IP are properly designed and meet the functional specifications of the protocols. They are also used to validate if sufficient margins are designed into the IP to mitigate variances due to process tolerances. All high-performance hard IP go through this test chip/silicon validation process. Oftentimes, marginality is detected at this stage. In advanced nodes, it is also important to have the test chips built under different process corners. This is intended to simulate process variations in production wafers so as to maximize yields. Advanced protocols such as 112G, GDDR6, HBM2, and PCIe4 are incredibly complex and sensitive to process variations. It is almost impossible to design these circuits and try to guarantee their performance without going through the test chip route.

Besides validating performance of the IP protocols, test silicon is also used to validate robustness of ESD structures, sensitivity to latch up, and performance degradation over wide temperature ranges. All these items are more critical in advanced nodes than more mature modes. Test chips are vehicles to guarantee design integrity in bite-size chunks. It is better to deal with any potential issues in smaller blocks than to try to fix them in the final integrated SoC.

Test chips will continue to play a vital role in helping IP and SoC teams lower the risk of their designs, and assuring optimal quality and performance in the foreseeable future. They are not going away!

To read more, please visit https://semiengineering.com/test-chips-play-larger-role-at-advanced-nodes/