SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, September 9, 2010 – Syntricity Inc., a leader in data management and analysis for the semiconductor industry, has developed an end-to-end solution for eFuse programmable identification registers. Used for material tracking, fine-tuning individual devices, piracy and hacking prevention, and other applications, eFuse (aka one-time programmable or OTP) registers are...
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Stigler’s Law of Eponymy states, "No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." It was named by Stephen Stigler, who credits the notion to Robert K. Merton (1910-2003). Stephen Stigler’s father, George Stigler, won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1982. Robert K. Merton’s son, Robert C. Merton, won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997. The Pareto chart that we know today...
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Six-sigma  projects and other factors have contributed to the increased popularity of gauge r&r studies. The DMAIC (define, measure , analyze, improve, control) problem solving framework commonly used in six-sigma projects starts by defining a problem followed by the measurement step. Measurement systems analysis is based on the notion that you need to determine the capability of your...
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SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, July 7, 2010 – Syntricity’s experience in deploying its dataConductor semiconductor yield managements system, including broad support for standard as well as proprietary data formats, continues to help customers establish the best-practices necessary for data collection, automated file feeds, and data analysis to turn data into solutions. After more than a decade of...
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Samurai use swords, not bullets It's been 50+ years since Dr. George Miller published The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information (1956) in The Psychological Review . Over the years, many people (knowingly or not) have used this article to support the notion that you should, for example, limit the number of items in a list...
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