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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.

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.

Wow, it’s been so long since I done “in-the-news”, this might get to be a long post… the DFT world moves on whether I have time to document it or not!

The following are a selection of press releases from the first quarter of this year; I’ll follow up with more DFT in-the-news – beacause there is more to the industry than press releases!

March what? Holy smoke, time flies – It’s been one of those stretches of time where I’ve just been overwhelmed with my day job, and other parts of life – and I’ve not posted here at DFT Digest for quite awhile. I feel a little bit like the donkey in the picture to the left: so overloaded, it’s hard to make any progress!

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?