DFT Digest

So after getting through crunch time at work, I took my family on a short vacation up to the Pacific Northwest. What a beautiful place. Yeah, it rains a lot. But it makes for lots of pretty green stuff… But now it’s crunch time to pay for that week off.

So, while I catch up, you may want to head over to EDA Cafe, where Peggy Aycinena has written an interesting article and interview with Tom Williams (about whom I blogged [1], [2] before). He’s had a distinguished career in DFT.

I found it intriguing that in the same article, Test was described as both “Golden Child of EDA” and “provincial in its separation from the larger world of Design”, and “DFT is walking hand in hand with DFM/DFY and together moving the industry forward.”

I think the EDA world is coming to a slow realization that this thing test, which has been conveniently ignored, then tolerated, is now necessarily integral to the design process. I think it scares them a little…