DFT Digest

Remember way back, this time last year, there were rumors about that Magma had abandoned their design-for-test tools?  First, there was a post over at DeepChip,  about the cancellation of their test program.  Less than a week later, Richard Goering at EE Times wrote an article stating that, according to Magma marketing folk, Magma did indeed drop out of the BIST market, but was working on an ATPG offering (which was “in alpha stage”).

That was shortly before ITC last year, and when I asked about it at their booth, people looked at me as if they didn’t know what I was talking about (I guess they don’t talk about these things to just anybody - that’s OK).

Well, today, Magma announced  Talus ATPG, and Talus ATPG-X, for ATPG and test compression, which are integrated into their physical suite, and claimed to be the only truly physically aware ATPG implementation.   Other claims include multi-threaded operation, and concurrent targeting of multiple fault models.  The press release included comments from two companies that have seen the product: IDT and Comtech AHA.

Anybody else out there seen the product?  Let me know what you think.  Is ATPG becoming a commodity (everyone offers it)?