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 three workshops this year: DFM&Y (Design for Manufacturability and Yield), which is the more “design” part of test, DBT (Defect-based Test), which is more “test”, and ATE Vision 2020, where people will either be talking about test in the year 2020 or sharpening their vision (to 20/20) of the future of test in general, depending upon who you talk to. Something for everyone here.
Speaking of DFM, panel 4 on Wednesday explored Test’s role in DFM (Does Test Have a Greater Role to Play in the DFM Process?). Tets Maniwa wrote about it in an article at EE Times here. This is a subject that I’ve wondered about in a few different posts when DFT Digest first started. Just do a search for DFM. And you’ll see the subject has come up. It’s good to see DFM being discussed at ITC.
I’ve gotten some feedback on the conference this week, so I’ll be posting regularly to discuss some the more interesting papers, panels and addresses. I invite all you readers to get me your feedback, either by commenting here, or e-mail me at jford@dftdigest.com!
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John,
My impression was the attendence seems to be down from last year. When I was on the exhibit floor, I did’t see any big crowds around Cadence/Magma/Mentor/Synopsys booths, or any of the other booths that I normally go just to pick up toys, even during lunch or session breaks.
As a matter of fact, there are a lot of toys left at the end of the exhibits on Thursday, that I was able to pick up a couple of Yo-yos and a spongee baseball for my kids. There are lots of pens, bags, and halloween candies left with no takers.
There was a *big* crowd around Cadence booth (around 10 people) at the end of exhibits on Thursday, waiting for Cadence to draw the winner for a Nintendo Wii. They gave out 4 of them throughout the conference. The attendance was so small that I recognize the names of all 3 winners (they haven’t announced the 4th winner by the time exhibit closed).
Mentor gave out an iPhone each day, but you need to sit through their presentations to earn the right to be in the lottery. I sat through one during lunch hour, but there were only 3 other people sitting there. Even with the high probability, I still didn’t win
Magma gave out a iPod Touch during their special lunch. There were other vendors which had iPod/iPhone drawings, but I didn’t pay attention to them.
Anyway, if anyone has a different impression as I do about attendance, let me know!
Siyad