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Remember in my last post, where I told you how weird it was to suddenly be seeing all these references to 3D ID design technology? Well it didn’t stop. Literally, the day I posted that entry, I got the new issue of IEEE Design & Test – a special issue on, you guessed it: 3D IC Design and Test.

The same day, I was cleaning my desk, and found a couple of papers that I had printed out a couple of months ago and forgot about, from DATE ‘09. One was entitled Test Architecture and Optimization for Three-Dimensional SoC’s.

Sometimes a post just begs to be written. Subconsciously, little reminders crop up in your input stream (a.k.a. eyes and ears) that prod you into doing something. Last week, like a Hitchcock blonde, it seemed like every time I turned around, something referring to 3-D technology popped out at me. I think it started when I began searching for material on JTAG implementations for MCMs…

Really, goodbye Summer – had enough of you. Sorry, I’m a spoiled Southern Californian: can’t stand the heat, or the cold. [I started this post over a week ago, when summer ended] Many people claim we have no seasons here in SoCal, but as a native, I feel them. Maybe it has to do with the cast of the sun, or maybe it’s just a combination of many different subtle cues (many colored trees, like those to the left are not really in the picture around here). Whatever it is, I look forward to the transition seasons, especially autumn.

The 2009 International Test Conference was formally announced earlier this week. In November, the conference makes its return to Austin, TX – site of ITC 2005, the first ITC held west of the Mississippi. Now, normally I normally rifle through the advance program (which in a fit of green, I printed out 2 pages per side, and realized my eyes are way to old to actually read that!), and blog about what I think is interesting.

This year, I thought I’d poll some of the organizers of the event to see what piqued their interest in what they were planning for ITC this year.

As an engineer with a day job that has less to do with design automation or tool support, and more to do with nut-and-bolts DFT planning and implementation, there’s a slim chance that I will be traveling to DAC this year… On the other hand, as an EDA Blogger, I like to go to DAC to check out what’s happening in EDA, talk to DFT vendors, blog whatever fascinating things I see, and maybe meet up with some other bloggers… but – I think I’ll bypass DAC and stay in Carmel for my vacation instead…