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It may take me a couple of weeks to crawl through what I saw and heard in my 3-4 days at ITC this year – many of the articles written by the trade press have already (I’ll be linking to them as I see them). Likely by next week, you won’t see any more ITC stories. But you will here – DFT Digest – the gift that keeps on giving? he he… well one thing for sure, your not likely to find any personalized accounts in those stories as you will in mine. That’s what makes blogging fun!

Q: So what do steak, jugglers and analog fault models have in common?

Happy Sunday! Test week is over, participants are back to their normal lives, perhaps off to another conference. Last time I blogged, it was Monday, after the first panel and 40th year reception. I’m going to try to blog a few notes throughout this week, including some from conversations with folks from Cadence, Mentor and Synopsys.

Today was travel day for me. Started off in Long Beach, had a fairly nice flight – no one sitting next to me, so my legs weren’t suffering, but the plane had a couple really vocal toddlers – thank God for iPods.

Checked into my hotel in Austin, checked a couple e-mails, changed and walked down to Ironworks BBQ on Red River, right next to the convention center. Mmmm, BBQ…

Sometimes life gets so busy, I gloss over many things especially when it comes to e-mails, scheduling, where I parked my car – you know, life. Eventually, as an event starts to creep up on me, I gather everything I glossed over in one place so I can quickly organize my time and thoughts, so I don’t go headlong into things completely unprepared. I suppose I’m no different than many of you out there. But one thing I glossed over until earlier this week, I still haven’t resolved.

Do you want to know what I really like about ITC? Well, before I tell you, let me say up front that I don’t go to that many conferences and/or trade-shows. But ones that I’ve either been to, or have peripherally kept track of, don’t seem to be as rich in this particular kind of content that I’m talking about. Perhaps it’s because it’s sponsored mainly by the IEEE Computer Society, and not so much by vendors – vendor’s content is limited to the exhibition floor and certain time slots during the program for presentations. Is it because there’s less research material? No, there’s plenty of that. So what, you ask, is one my favorite parts of ITC?