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#46DAC Report from a DFT Blogger
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…
OK – you gotta think a little harder than that…
There’s not been a ton of talk about the recently announced agreement between Mentor Graphics and LogicVision (it’s test-related, after all), but a few comments and blog posts out there on the intertubes have me wondering whether people put any effort into these things at all.
Mentor puts its money where its DFT mouth is
Today it was announced that Mentor Graphics and LogicVision have put pen to paper on a deal that will, if all goes to plan, make LogicVision a wholly owned subsidiary of Mentor. The move will cost Mentor $13 million in Mentor common stock (0.2006 MENT shares per LGVN share). Oh, as the EDA world turns…
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.
Hey, DFT world, what’s up?
March what? Holy smoke, time flies – It’s been one of those stretches of time where I’ve just been overwhelmed with my day job, and other parts of life – and I’ve not posted here at DFT Digest for quite awhile. I feel a little bit like the donkey in the picture to the left: so overloaded, it’s hard to make any progress!
