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It feels good to be right… it does happen sometimes. Back in May, when Mentor Graphics announced its intentions to acquire LogicVision, most folks writing about the deal pointed out a significant overlap in the product offerings of the two companies – surely the move didn’t make much sense (but to be fair, none of them know much about the DFT market). I first blogged the news here, and again here, in response to the overlap arguments. My feeling was that LogicVision brought strengths in some product areas where Mentor was flagging. And, I was right.

Maintaining DFT Digest and DFT Forum is not that much work, but it’s not zero. Just this last week, we moved the DFT Forum from Siyad’s ISP to my server, and since then it seems like the spambots have found us. We’re getting a few new obviously bogus user registrations per day, and looking them up and deleting them is the kind of maintenance work I could do without. But read on…

It’s not really the first day of the International Test Conference (tutorials started yesterday, and the actual conference kicks off tomorrow), but just to get *warmed up*, there was a special panel held to explore the *hot topic* of power-aware test: Power-aware DFT – Do we really need it?…

OK – enough of the break from writing. The holiday season has come and gone, the new year has started, and I didn’t even write to hail my 2nd anniversary as a DFT blogger. That’s right, New years day marked two whole years of semi-regular writing about whatever happens to creep into [...]