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My interest was piqued as much as anyone else when I saw the public outing of Cadence’s hostile bid for Mentor last week. But as a DFT guy trying to look objectively at how this might [...]

Just a couple of posts ago, I was pointing out that I’d like to be able to attend conference technical sessions in an a-la-carte fashion, since DFT is one of those disciplines that, with a few exceptions, is covered very lightly at many conferences. Why pay full price for just a couple presentations?
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This week, I’ll try to pass along Design-for-Test related DAC news as it comes along…
First, it was announced today that the standards organization Accellera has selected Bruce Cory, a DFT manager at NVIDIA, to receive the 5th annual Technical Excellence Award, for leading the effort to bring the Open Compression Interface (OCI) to be approved [...]

Last week, John Cooley published the results of his 2008 DeepChip Synopsys Survey, and of course I went straight to item #6, entitled “Synopsys DFT Compiler/TetraMAX vs. Mentor DFT Advisor/FastScan“. There are some surprises and head scratchers:

By John’s count, Synopsys DFT Compiler only has 50% of the scan insertion market. Gary Smith [...]

OK - enough of the break from writing. The holiday season has come and gone, the new year has started, and I didn’t even write to hail my 2nd anniversary as a DFT blogger. That’s right, New years day marked two whole years of semi-regular writing about whatever happens to creep into [...]