DFT Digest

If 2005 was the first time ITC had been held west of the Mississippi, then this year marks the International Test Conference’s first visit to the left coast. What better place than somewhere with more engineers per square mile than perhaps anywhere on the planet? The bay area! Santa Clara convention center, October 22-27.

So what’s on the agenda this year? The theme is “Getting More Out of Test“, apparently referring to the ever expanding test related activities throughout the design flow, from beginning to end. To this end, there will be diverse activities relating to everything from DFT to yield management. It’s pretty well rounded, although the more popular topics are high-speed test & measurement, debug & diagnosis, and mixed-signal test. DFM and DFY are covered by the keynote, a tutorial and a full workshop.
It seems all the big DFT vendors will be there, Mentor, Synopsys, Cadence (unless they’re feeling squirrely like they did at this year’s DAC), SynTest, LogicVision, Magma, and Novas are all on the list. ATE vendors Advantest, Agilent and Credence are there also. Hmmm… where are Teradyne and LTX?

So many topics, so little time. Are you going? And what are you going to see?