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It’s that time of year again: goodbye 2008, hello 2009. How fun for me, the presumptive lonely voice in this quiet little corner of the EDA wilderness, design-for-test, right? BTW, today marks 3 years of DFT Digest -readership grew 50-100% this year, depending upon which numbers you’re looking at. Not bad - hopefully you’ll continue to read, and I’ll continue to compel you.

The rest of the industry talks about ESL, dead DFM companies, the next killer engineering app (energy), white-spaces, and the battle of the PU’s (CPU vs GPU); what’s happening in DFT?

Every once in awhile, I’ll trip on a new design-for-test website or blog that seems interesting or useful, seemingly just for the sake of being useful. Granted, sometimes these sites are just communication channels for a particular EDA vendor, but sometimes that doesn’t matter. Sometimes it’s just something that an ‘enthusiast’ starts up.

I’m not sure which is the case of a blog I found a few weeks back, simply called JTAG JTAG blog provides you with a informational resource on JTAG products, boundary scan testing, and the latest news on JTAG.“, says the tagline.

Apparently a lot.  We’re all still trying to figure out what a blogger is.
Last Wednesday, at ICCAD, the second EDA Bloggers Birds-of-a-Feather session was held.  Organized by Sean Murphy and Ed Lee, it was a follow-up discussion [...]

You may recall that the first ever EDA Bloggers Birds-of-a-Feather session was held a DAC 2008 in San Diego. If not, re-visit some of the coverage.

Well, looks like we’re at it again. Sean Murphy of SKMurphy is organizing the second ever EDA Bloggers Birds-of-a-Feather session, to be held in conjunction with ICCAD in San Jose, Novermber 12th, 4-6PM. See the details here.