DFT Digest

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Over there to the right of this web page, you’ll see a link named ‘DFT in the News‘ to a page that I keep at blogspot. Its www.dftdigest.blogspot.com.
Well, I couldn’t figure out how to maintain two pages of posts, sorted from newest to oldest, so I just started another blog to contain just links [...]

I’m learning new things every day. Just recently, a friend of mine asked if I’d like to review a few papers for this year’s ITC. Being a part of the organizing committee, her areas are microprocessor test, SoC test, and NoC test.
Feeling a bit ignorant, I asked, “uhh, what’s ‘NoC’?”. “Network on Chip” [...]

Way back in the dark ages, we’d hand craft test patterns for our circuits. We would brainstorm corner cases, and even after we were done, we’d cook up even more patterns to cover odd defects in chips returned from customers. Now, that was living!
Then the logic simulator came to be, and on [...]