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]]> By: John http://www.dftdigest.com/blog-posts/atpg-wars-magma-comes-back-swinging/comment-page-1/#comment-1299 John Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:21:36 +0000 http://www.dftdigest.com/scanatpg/atpg-wars-magma-comes-back-swinging/#comment-1299 Sorry Andy - Your comment got spammed, and I just now noticed it. It seems to me I've heard similar comments from a couple of other people - nothing special about the compression, but the links to the physical are a good thing. 1:many broadcast? Are there at least muxes to vary the data, or is it quasi-Illinois scan? What exactly is the simple bridging model? What else was interesting for you at ITC? Sorry Andy – Your comment got spammed, and I just now noticed it.

It seems to me I’ve heard similar comments from a couple of other people – nothing special about the compression, but the links to the physical are a good thing.

1:many broadcast? Are there at least muxes to vary the data, or is it quasi-Illinois scan? What exactly is the simple bridging model?

What else was interesting for you at ITC?

]]> By: Andy http://www.dftdigest.com/blog-posts/atpg-wars-magma-comes-back-swinging/comment-page-1/#comment-1298 Andy Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:04:26 +0000 http://www.dftdigest.com/scanatpg/atpg-wars-magma-comes-back-swinging/#comment-1298 You are joking right? I saw the demo for the Magma DFT tool, and to be honest it left me stone cold. Yes it was integrated into a physical environment so consequently had some nice links to that, but other than that - seen it all before about 7yrs ago. The "compression" was pathetic - 1:many broadcast with an simple XOR compaction. How they got a 40x compression I have no idea (well apart from the circuit had no X's and was a model student!) Simple bridging fault was the only exciting fault model - no n-detect etc. No path-delay, just simple transition. BORED! You are joking right? I saw the demo for the Magma DFT tool, and to be honest it left me stone cold.
Yes it was integrated into a physical environment so consequently had some nice links to that, but other than that – seen it all before about 7yrs ago.
The “compression” was pathetic – 1:many broadcast with an simple XOR compaction. How they got a 40x compression I have no idea (well apart from the circuit had no X’s and was a model student!)
Simple bridging fault was the only exciting fault model – no n-detect etc. No path-delay, just simple transition.
BORED!

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