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Tonight there will be all manner of kids, big and small, traipsing through your neighborhood, masquerading as one thing or another. Be kind, or be tricked… Last week, at ITC, I felt a little like a trick-or-treater, walking around dressed up like a real DFT engineer.
Well, yes, I am a DFT engineer, and I [...]

“… have been greatly exaggerated” – Mark Twain
In an earlier post, I pointed out an observation seen at DeepChip – that Magma’s DFT strategy was MIA. Well, no sooner did the rumor float than the Twain-like comeback is reported here, by Richard Goering at EE Times. Although, Magma has left the BIST market, [...]

Today, Accellera has approved the Open Compression Interface standard (OCI version 1.0). See the EE Times article by Richard Goering here.
Back in Test Compression Series – Installment #2, I made brief mention of OCI, which is an effort that was undertaken by Accellera due to a need in the industry for flexibilty in test [...]

As I was expecting, as ITC comes upon us, the press releases will start up. Today’s EETimes on-line contains an article entitled “Synopsys Develops New ATPG Technology“. That’ll catch a DFT person’s eye, for sure.
If you read the article, it talks about small delay defects in sub-90nm processes. The new technology will [...]

A week from today, and ITC will be kicked off in Santa Clara, CA. I’ll be in attendance – specifically, sitting in a tutorial about DF… wait for it … M! Marketing, Manufacturing, Moola, it doesn’t matter, whatever it is, it is driving the forecast for the EDA industry for the next couple of years. [...]