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Gary Smith’s Wallchart – DFT Tools
Gary Smith EDA Research comes out with their “Wallcharts” each year, listing all the EDA vendors, broken down by category. Understandably, It’s a wallchart, with lots of names on it, so there is no description of what each company does. So to appease my own curiosity, and as a DFT guy, I thought I’d take his DFT section (which appeared on the CAE EDA 2009 Wallchart) and add my own comments. Click here to read them:
Straddling the fence: Where to show DFT?
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…
DFT, Really?
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.
DFT strategies for SoCs – what strategies?
Where designers might say, “how do I build this next big monster that the marketing department is demanding?”, we design-for-test engineers are asking the obvious related question: “How am I going to test this next big monster that the designers are slapping together?” Some days I find myself wishing that we’d do the same chip over so I could dive even deeper into the details of any lost coverage and nail everything down perfectly. No such luck. Perhaps gathering lessons learned will always be #1 on my list of DFT Strategies for SoCs.
DFT is fun. Good luck…
… so went the sign-off of a very informative comment by Wern-Yan Koe in a discussion started in the “DFT Experts” group on LinkedIn. I agree – design-for-test is fun, and challenging. The technology and methodology [...]
