Magma DFT - “The rumors of my death…”
“… have been greatly exaggerated” - Mark Twain
In an earlier post, I pointed out an observation seen at DeepChip - that Magma’s DFT strategy was MIA. Well, no sooner did the rumor float than the Twain-like comeback is reported here, by Richard Goering at EE Times. Although, Magma has left the BIST market, it is developing its own ATPG solution, targeting small delay defects, as is the trend in ATPG these days.
The article along with their own press release, also reports that Magma will be present at ITC, with demonstrations of its Blast Create flow’s interoperability with DFT/DFM offerings from several other companies, such as LogicVision, Mentor and Genesys Testware.
I’ll be sure to visit and see what form this interoperability takes…
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Hi John,
I browse your blog once a while and I find it very informative ..especially the test compression stuff..I was checking your site to see your report on ITC …so did u like anything special and how was the magma’s booth ( if you happened stopby ? )
Yeah, sorry, since I left town for a few days, I had a ton on my ‘to-do’ list when I got home. I will post on ITC this evening. Stay tuned!
By the way, I did stop by Magma’s booth, but I didn’t get much information. I spoke briefly with someone from Genesys Testware, one of the companies demonstrating interoperability with Magma tools, and discussed BIST.
I asked a couple of the Magma guys about ATPG, but they were pretty tight lipped about it, saying it was “only in the planning stages”, and “not yet announced”.