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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 [...]

Two items from the news this past week (presumably timed to coincide with Semicon Japan):
First, it was announced Tuesday that Asset Intertech, who provides boundary scan solutions, acquired Intertest Tech (ITT), an Irish supplier of process emulation technology. This seems to be a cementing of the strategic relationship they’ve had for the past three years, [...]

Well, ITC was 2 weeks ago, but as a as a blogger, I’m still getting some mileage out of it. It took some time to get feedback from the various friends, and well, I have a day job that sometimes extends beyond daytime. Anyway, I’ve a feeling it’ll normal to write about ITC [...]

This is DFT Digest, so we talk about Design-for-Test a lot. Makes sense, right? But the International Test Conference is not just DFT, in fact it’s really mostly Test. As much as we DFTers [...]