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ATPG Wars – Magma comes back swinging…

One of the announcements from Test Week’s onslaught of test-related press releases from EDA vendors was Magma’s roll-out of Talus ATPG and Talus ATPG-X.  A couple of interesting things about this product:
1)  Its tight integration into the Talus toolset means that it is a Magma user’s tool only.  So Magma is marketing it to about [...]

Test Week – A quick wrap-up…

Well, like I mentioned in a recent post, DFT Digest did have a mole at ITC – I wasn’t there (as I never get tired of mentioning – what a complainer!), but my partner Siyad Ma was there. He shared some of his thoughts in the comments section of my last post. To [...]

ITC Friday – Was it better for you than it was for me?

TGIF Folks! Some of you are still milling about Santa Clara, possibly attending one of the workshops. Others have packed it in and gone back to work. And me, I’m still chained to this workstation… so if you went to ITC, it was, by default, better for you than for me!
There are [...]

ITC Thursday – the reports trickle back

It’s Thursday morning, third day of the International Test Conference, last day of the technical paper sessions (Workshops start tomorrow). If you’re an ITC attendee, you may be hung over from too much cheese at the wine and cheese event – any good scuttlebutt? Do tell…
Yesterday, the reports (here and here) from [...]

ITC Wednesday – Technical sessions and lecture series

Today’s International Test Conference promises a full day of technical paper presentations, a lecture series, five panel discussions and at the end of the day, because you really should be exhausted after all that – the Wine and Cheese reception.
Today’s topics include test power issues, ATPG and delay test, functional and outlier test, [...]