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It was an offbeat announcement, I thought, when I saw Synopsys’ press release stating they had hit the top500. Number 242 in the top 500 fastest supercomputers that is…
So, since when are EDA companies in the business of creating teraflop computers? Especially wheen they’re constantly engaged in making their software faster. But [...]

Pssst!! Want to boost your profit margins by a few percent? Here’s the secret: take your test to the design (you know… DFT!). This is the message of a commentary by Jim Healy, CEO of LogicVision.
“Manufacturing should have the ability to drive test cost and final package yield criteria into design specs…”
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I purchased and received my very own copy of VLSI Test Principles and Architectures, edited by Laung-Terng Wang, Cheng-Wen Wu and Xiaoqing Wen. It’s huge, just about 750 pages – 12 chapters covering pretty much all the aspects of DFT to one extent of the other.

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Anyway, we have a cursory “why” discussion behind us for now. But where do we start? Do we make a plan? Have you ever heard of a DFT plan? Google [...]

I’m just going to have to accept the fact that when I go back and read some of my posts, in retrospect they will seem like pointless rambling – and that I’ll try to go back and bandaid them only to make them worse. It seems that could happen more often in this type [...]