OK, OK, More 3D – I get it…
Remember in my last post, where I told you how weird it was to suddenly be seeing all these references to 3D ID design technology? Well it didn’t stop. Literally, the day I posted that entry, I got the new issue of IEEE Design & Test – a special issue on, you guessed it: 3D IC Design and Test.
The same day, I was cleaning my desk, and found a couple of papers that I had printed out a couple of months ago and forgot about, from DATE ‘09. One was entitled Test Architecture and Optimization for Three-Dimensional SoC’s.

Sometimes a post just begs to be written. Subconsciously, little reminders crop up in your input stream (a.k.a. eyes and ears) that prod you into doing something. Last week, like a
Really, goodbye Summer – had enough of you. Sorry, I’m a spoiled Southern Californian: can’t stand the heat, or the cold. [I started this post over a week ago, when summer ended] Many people claim we have no seasons here in SoCal, but as a native, I feel them. Maybe it has to do with the cast of the sun, or maybe it’s just a combination of many different subtle cues (many colored trees, like those to the left are not really in the picture around here). Whatever it is, I look forward to the transition seasons, especially autumn.
The
It feels good to be right… it does happen sometimes. Back in May, when 
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