EDA Bloggers BoF - What’s in a Word?
Apparently a lot. We’re all still trying to figure out what a blogger is.
Last Wednesday, at ICCAD, the second EDA Bloggers Birds-of-a-Feather session was held. Organized by Sean Murphy and Ed Lee, it was a follow-up discussion [...]
ITC 2008 Wrap Up - and the Story Was…
Another October has come and gone, and those determined folks who do their best to ensure that only good electronic components and systems are shipped to customers will be making their way back to the home base. That’s it for the 2008 version of the International Test Conference. So what were the big ‘take-aways’ of this years conference?
ITC Day 3 - Go Forth Into the World and Prove Your Worth
I spent the morning taking advantage of proximity to vendors to solve a couple of problems, so the first presentation I saw today was the invited address given by AMD Fellow Jeff Rearick: This Is a Test: How to Tell if DFT and Test Are Adding Value to Your Company. I thought it was a very interesting address, so let’s see if I can relay some of what was said:
ITC Day 2 - All Gassed Up About Compression
Test Compression makes test vectors for efficient - I wish there was such a thing for schedules… ITC Day 2 for me seemed like a lot of running around, trying to find people, trying to avoid people [joking! really...], answering e-mails, phone calls, finding cell phone chargers… I missed a lot, but I suppose I was productive otherwise.
The most fun I had all day Wednesday was witnessing Panel 3 - Will Test Compression Run Out of Gas?
Wednesday evening, the second ever EDA Blogger’s Bird’s of a Feather (BoF) session is happening at 