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Yeah, well OK – I didn’t go to DAC this year. But if you and I have that in common, dear reader – I’m here to tell you that with a little time in front of your computer, you will have missed almost nothing besides the warm handshake of an old or new acquaintance as you might have met them at the premier EDA conference of the year. Certainly, that is the only thing I missed – I would have loved to meet some of the people I’ve come to know (virtually) over the last 3 1/2 years of DFT Digest blogging.

So why do I say you missed almost nothing? Read on…

DAC is just over a week away – and I’ve been making cracks here and there about the lack of test-related material. So I’d like to welcome a counterpoint from Dr. Yervant Zorian, DAC EDA Industry Chair; Vice President and Chief Scientist at Virage Logic (the cv supplied by him – I’m here to tell you his involvement in, and contributions to the EDA and DFT/Test community are much more extensive)

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Lest you think that test is an overlooked design discipline within the Design Automation Conference Technical Program, I’d like to direct your attention to two sessions that should be thought-provoking and insightful discussions on test methodologies.

Need to catch up on a few things… with the onset of the DAC season, there are always some interesting things that pop up, even if the conference is light on test. Here is a small list of items that have passed into my weary view, in no particular order:

image: Al Souza, Potpourri Redux, 2007

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…

It’s a full month after DAC has come and gone, so it’s kind of ridiculous to continue.  But I’ve been busy, lazy, on vacation, unmotivated – you pick, what the heck. I think maybe I need to [...]