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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…

[editors note: This post is a first in a regular series of featured contributions from Stephen Pateras of LogicVision. I look forward to bringing you his, (and hopefully other's, in the future), knowledge on the DFT Digest blog - John]

Sometimes I think BIST should be written BKST. Even though both proprietary and commercial solutions for Built-In Self-Test, sometimes called embedded test, have been around literally for decades now, the capabilities and benefits of using these solutions remain in large part one of the Best Kept Secrets in Test.

[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).

Test Compression makes test vectors for efficient – I wish there was such a thing for schedules… ITC Day 2 for me seemed like a lot of running around, trying to find people, trying to avoid people [joking! really...], answering e-mails, phone calls, finding cell phone chargers… I missed a lot, but I suppose I was productive otherwise.

The most fun I had all day Wednesday was witnessing Panel 3 – Will Test Compression Run Out of Gas?