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Last week, John Cooley published the results of his 2008 DeepChip Synopsys Survey, and of course I went straight to item #6, entitled “Synopsys DFT Compiler/TetraMAX vs. Mentor DFT Advisor/FastScan“. There are some surprises and head scratchers:

By John’s count, Synopsys DFT Compiler only has 50% of the scan insertion market. Gary Smith [...]

No really, no kidding – just joking.
Anyway, I wanted to pass along a reminder from Louis Ungar of A.T.E Solutions that TMAG (Testability Management Action Group) will be holding general meeting #3, on April 1, 2008 at [...]

Very funny – EDN’s blogger Margery Conner posts that today is ‘Pi’ day (March 14th, a.k.a 3/14, 3.14, pi).
Editor Rick Nelson points out that they can’t observe Pi day in Europe, since they write their dates differently (14/3/2008).
Then of course, someone has to say that they guess that makes it American Pi day – hee [...]

Good day DFT folk – just a reminder, DATE 2008 started today. For those of you readers who are lucky enough to be in Munich this week for the event: What are you looking for? What sessions, and/or events do you have your eye on?
One person there this week is JL Gray of [...]

I was reading Peggy Aycinena’s DVCON post at EDACafe this past week, and ran across a couple of thought provoking (at least for me) paragraphs. Ms. Aycinena was describing the Wednesday keynote speech given by Wally Rhines [...]