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About once a month, Mentor publishes a little piece on their website called Test Talk, written by Al Crouch. This month’s edition, entitled ‘Outsourcing, the Scrabble Method’, is a Dilbertian look at outsourcing, and of course, has its DFT-related tie-in: weighted fault coverage and n-detect. Hmmm… what could weighted fault coverage and outsourcing [...]

Today I received an e-mail from Dr. Ben Bennetts, DFT Consultant (Semi-retired) with a great introduction to some ‘in-the-works‘ extensions to the IEEE 1149.1 test access standard, called IJTAG (Internal JTAG) and SJTAG (System JTAG).
The Internal JTAG effort seeks to standardize the access to ‘internal instruments’ of all sorts that may reside on a single [...]

I mentioned in another post just after ITC 2006, that I’d met Ben Bennetts for the first time. We had breakfast, and talked a bit about this blog I was trying to start up. It was an introductory conversation, but secretly, I was hoping to eventually convince him to work up some material [...]