Jacob Savir is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the

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and an

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. He is credited with developing two approaches to detecting Transition Faults (a type of

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) that might occur during the manufacturing of semiconductor chips, viz., the Skewed-Load Transition Test (Launch-off-shift at-speed test) and the Broad-side delay test (Launch on Capture at-speed test).

Education

Savir completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in

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from

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in 1968 and 1974 respectively. He then obtained his MS in

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and PhD in

from

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in 1976 and 1978 respectively. He worked as a researcher at

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for nearly two decades after his PhD (1978-1996).

Research contributions to DFT

In 1992, Savir wrote the seminal paper on Skewed-Load Transition Test better known in the

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industry as Launch-off-shift at-speed test. In 1994, he co-authored the paper on Broad-side delay test.
Broad-side delay test

References

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