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Wow, it’s been so long since I done “in-the-news”, this might get to be a long post… the DFT world moves on whether I have time to document it or not!

The following are a selection of press releases from the first quarter of this year; I’ll follow up with more DFT in-the-news – beacause there is more to the industry than press releases!

This just in: Magma has licensed its ATPG technology to LogicVision.

Today’s joint press release states that “LogicVision will develop, market and support ATPG and ATPG compression solutions based on advanced technologies developed by Magma”.

If you’ll recall, in October 2007, Magma announced Talus-ATPG, a power-aware ATPG tool to be integrated into the Magma implementation flow. A few months later (June last year). it ceased to exist. Web page vanished, and the party line was that it had been de-prioritized. In the interim, there were some resource shuffles, people, formerly Magma APTG folk, looking for work. Nothing left but a big question mark. Read more…

Dear reader: just think about how far test and design-for-test technology has come since you’ve been in the industry – even if only for a few years, new problems have arisen, and new techniques and tools have appeared to solve them (not all of them, but…).

This happens because a legion of engineers and researchers bring their expertise to bear on the problems, and in turn, contribute their solutions to the community.

[udpate 12/18/08: This went by yesterday without my noticing - Virage revoked their takeover bid for LogicVision] Just a short one, in followup to the VirLogic news last week.

In two press releases today, LogicVision rejected Virage Logic’s attempted acquisition, and adopted a Shareholder Rights Plan, in favor of pursuing “strategic alternatives” to increasing shareholder value.

Here we go again… just as the furor from Cadence’s failed takeover bid and its subsequent fallout finally starts to die down, Virage Logic decides to make public its desires for LogicVision! In a letter dated December 2nd, Virage offered LogicVision shareholders $1.05 per share (about $10 million in cash).