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OK - lesson learned - maybe.  I was tipped on this a week or so before DAC - it was pointed out to me that any content (besides the original press releases from last year) on Magma’s [...]

Magma may have come up with the most unique announcement last month - ATPG that fits inextricably within the Talus implementation tool suite. Not to be outdone, Synopsys came out with a couple of their own.
First was the announcement of low power management for manufacturing test. This effort seems to [...]

One of the announcements from Test Week’s onslaught of test-related press releases from EDA vendors was Magma’s roll-out of Talus ATPG and Talus ATPG-X.   A couple of interesting things about this product:
1)  Its tight integration into the Talus toolset means that it is a Magma user’s tool only.  So Magma is marketing it to about [...]

Remember way back, this time last year, there were rumors about that Magma had abandoned their design-for-test tools?  First, there was a post over at DeepChip,  about the cancellation of their test program.  Less than a week later, Richard Goering at EE Times wrote an article stating that, according to Magma marketing folk, Magma did [...]

“… have been greatly exaggerated” - Mark Twain
In an earlier post, I pointed out an observation seen at DeepChip - that Magma’s DFT strategy was MIA. Well, no sooner did the rumor float than the Twain-like comeback is reported here, by Richard Goering at EE Times. Although, Magma has left the BIST market, [...]