DFT Digest

Maintaining DFT Digest and DFT Forum is not that much work, but it’s not zero. Just this last week, we moved the DFT Forum from Siyad’s ISP to my server, and since then it seems like the spambots have found us.  We’re getting a few new obviously bogus user registrations per day, and looking them up and deleting them is the kind of maintenance work I could do without.

So, over the next couple of days, I’m going to update the forum software, and buttress up the security a bit.  While I’m doing so, if you’re a DFT Forum member, please be patient, as there may be occasional downtime.

The other aspect to having to do that kind of maintenance is that I do less real writing – and there are a couple of posts I have brewing, but not yet ready.  But just for fun, I’ll preview them here:

There were a couple of real good dicussions started in the LinkedIn groups in the past couple of weeks, one, which I already blogged, has to do with Power-Aware ATE.  Since I blogged it last, there have been some very interesting comments added.  I plan to pass my take on those along to you – since not everyone can see them in the LinkedIn groups.

The other discussion, which I initiated, was about core test, and how it’s being handled in the industry, given an apparent lack of available EDA tools to accomplish it in a standard way (IEEE 1500, I’m thinking).   That discussion, coupled with the fact that the most recent issue of IEEE Design & Test magazine is dedicated to this very subject, has given me another good blog post, which I’m working on.

So stay tuned… and if there is any other subjects you’d like to hear about, don’t hesitate to ask.  Thanks!