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Test-Related Articles Over at SOCcentral

October was ITC month, which I’m sure was the reason that there were 5-6 test-related articles that were, for a short time, available on the front page of SOCcentral (maybe next year, DFT Digest will have some contributed features as well!). I was busy trying to keep up with my own writing during that time, so I didn’t end up posting this until now, and the weeks since ITC have been about as hectic as it gets. So in true weblog tradition, I’m only providing links below, so I can come back to them and discuss them as time permits. read more…

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 [...]

DFT Digest Turns 200 Today…

…so to speak. This is my 200th post. Woo-hoo!! Maybe not my 200th good one, but here it is!

In the bigger blogging world, it’s not so great - for 34 months of blogging - almost three years and 200 posts, that’s about a post and a half per week. In a blogosphere where multiple posts per day is the norm (well, at least the most popular blogs), a post per week is not stellar. But I do have a day job. And, for the EDA blogging world, well, it’s not so bad.

EDA Blogger’s Birds of a Feather Reminder

Wednesday evening, the second ever EDA Blogger’s Bird’s of a Feather (BoF) session is happening at ICCAD, at the San Jose Doubletree, in the Fir Ballroom from 4PM-6PM.

Could be fun - you need to be there! Click here to read more…

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?