http://www.dftdigest.com Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:27:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Update: I could swear I published this article with a title, but then I noticed it coming up blank in my feed... All along I've said that DAC's not really my show, but it was more interesting this year, given the whole EDA Bloggers Birds of Feather deal. It ... http://www.dftdigest.com/miscellaneous/214/ OK - lesson learned - maybe.  I was tipped on this a week or so before DAC - it was pointed out to me that any content (besides the original press releases from last year) on Magma's website relating to Magma's Talus ATPG was MIA.  Not wanting to jump the ... http://www.dftdigest.com/miscellaneous/magma-dft-dead-again/ Just wanted to point to Sramana Mitra's take on the merger.  One of the last paragraphs in the article brought up an interesting point: Consolidation is a necessity for the ATE industry just as much as the EDA industry. In fact, a whole new layer of consolidation that bridges the design ... http://www.dftdigest.com/ate/update-on-credenceltx-merger/ My interest was piqued as much as anyone else when I saw the public outing of Cadence's hostile bid for Mentor last week. But as a DFT guy trying to look objectively at how this might affect other DFT guys/girls, it doesn't seem like a big deal (although if ... http://www.dftdigest.com/ate/industry-consolidation-mas-not-just-for-eda/ I just got back from DAC, and the 'Birds of a Feather' EDA bloggers session. I've got to say, it felt a little more like a bunch of dogs getting to know each other. Seems to me that independent EDA bloggers just had their collective butts sniffed by ... http://www.dftdigest.com/news/birds-dogs-whatever/ Check out the press release here. I encourage all of you interested in this form of communication to come and participate! http://www.dftdigest.com/news/eda-blogger-bof-gets-press/ Just a couple of posts ago, I was pointing out that I'd like to be able to attend conference technical sessions in an a-la-carte fashion, since DFT is one of those disciplines that, with a few exceptions, is covered very lightly at many conferences. Why pay full price for ... http://www.dftdigest.com/miscellaneous/attend-a-conference-on-line/ I sometimes wonder this. It seems in the past several years, the design-for-test job has grown more complicated (as any other facet of the electronics design discipline), what with new (or more prominent) defect mechanisms and fault models, and new DFT methods and technologies to address them. I was reading an interview ... http://www.dftdigest.com/general/how-many-dft-engineers-are-there-really/ For most of the average joes attending the Design Automation Conference, it's a time to walk the exhibit floor, witness demos of the latest EDA gear, take in some interesting technical sessions, and maybe attend a party or reception. But if you dig around the DAC website, you'll see a link ... http://www.dftdigest.com/news/off-the-beaten-dac-path/ Just a short one - about a month ago, the 2008 Southwest DFT Conference was held in Austin, TX. I blogged about it here. Since I didn't get to go, I just recently checked back to see if SiliconAid had posted highlights on it's website - and they're there, ... http://www.dftdigest.com/news/update-southwest-dft-conference-2008/