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This article is brought to you by Emerson.I’ve spent much of my career as an engineer, including years in the semiconductor industry. And one lesson has stayed with me through every major technology shift: innovation always creates new complexity.In semiconductors, we have seen that repeatedly. Every generation has delivered breakthroughs in performance and capability, but each step forward made it harder to understand system behavior. What used to be easy to validate on the component level with a test bench now needs a much wider view. “The future of engineering will be defined by who can verify, understand, and improve complex systems fast enough to safely keep innovation moving forward,” says Ritu Favre, President of Emerson’s Test & Measurement business group.EmersonChiplet-based designs are a prime example. A chiplet from one supplier, an interposer from another, and a packaging process from a third may all perform perfectly on their own. Yet there is a chance for unexpected behavior when you put them together in a system. More and more often, the hardest engineering challenges are not in the individual components themselves. The problems are found when we start to combine co…