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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…

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.