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As an engineer with a day job that has less to do with design automation or tool support, and more to do with nut-and-bolts DFT planning and implementation, there’s a slim chance that I will be traveling to DAC this year… On the other hand, as an EDA Blogger, I like to go to DAC to check out what’s happening in EDA, talk to DFT vendors, blog whatever fascinating things I see, and maybe meet up with some other bloggers… but – I think I’ll bypass DAC and stay in Carmel for my vacation instead…

Today it was announced that Mentor Graphics and LogicVision have put pen to paper on a deal that will, if all goes to plan, make LogicVision a wholly owned subsidiary of Mentor. The move will cost Mentor $13 million in Mentor common stock (0.2006 MENT shares per LGVN share). Oh, as the EDA world turns…

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[editors note: This post is third in a regular series of featured contributions from Stephen Pateras of LogicVision]

Probably one of the hottest design topics these days is power minimization. This is not surprising given how much we love our high-performance mobile and wireless toys. But what does that mean to BIST solutions?

Something interesting happened today. Well, interesting to me. After all, I’m a DFT guy. Anyway, I’m waiting for an ATPG run to crash (and I know it will crash, because I just threw the scripts together – it’s a Murphy’s Law thing, I’m sure). So what does the typically efficient person do when waiting in front of a computer? Right – I’m browsing the internet.