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Useful JTAG/Boundary Scan Info
Every once in awhile, I’ll trip on a new design-for-test website or blog that seems interesting or useful, seemingly just for the sake of being useful. Granted, sometimes these sites are just communication channels for a particular EDA vendor, but sometimes that doesn’t matter. Sometimes it’s just something that an ‘enthusiast’ starts up.
I’m not sure which is the case of a blog I found a few weeks back, simply called JTAG JTAG blog provides you with a informational resource on JTAG products, boundary scan testing, and the latest news on JTAG.“, says the tagline.
Merry Christmas… We want your company
Here we go again… just as the furor from Cadence’s failed takeover bid and its subsequent fallout finally starts to die down, Virage Logic decides to make public its desires for LogicVision! In a letter dated December 2nd, Virage offered LogicVision shareholders $1.05 per share (about $10 million in cash).
There’s Design-for-Test in Asia, too!!
…let there be no doubt.
As a west coast USA native, like many Americans, I’m a little myopic - I admit it. But it’s never too late to change, right? Well, today, I confess to you all that I missed blogging about what appears to be a very interesting DFT/Test-related event that has just concluded: the seventeenth Asian Test Symposium. This was a 4-day event, in “snow[y] and cold” Sapporo, Japan.
Test-Related Articles Over at SOCcentral
October was ITC month, which I’m sure was the reason that there were 5-6 test-related articles that were, for a short time, available on the front page of SOCcentral (maybe next year, DFT Digest will have some contributed features as well!). I was busy trying to keep up with my own writing during that time, so I didn’t end up posting this until now, and the weeks since ITC have been about as hectic as it gets. So in true weblog tradition, I’m only providing links below, so I can come back to them and discuss them as time permits. read more…
EDA Bloggers BoF - What’s in a Word?
Apparently a lot. We’re all still trying to figure out what a blogger is.
Last Wednesday, at ICCAD, the second EDA Bloggers Birds-of-a-Feather session was held. Organized by Sean Murphy and Ed Lee, it was a follow-up discussion [...]
