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It feels good to be right… it does happen sometimes. Back in May, when Mentor Graphics announced its intentions to acquire LogicVision, most folks writing about the deal pointed out a significant overlap in the product offerings of the two companies – surely the move didn’t make much sense (but to be fair, none of them know much about the DFT market). I first blogged the news here, and again here, in response to the overlap arguments. My feeling was that LogicVision brought strengths in some product areas where Mentor was flagging. And, I was right.

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?

Let me hear you say yeah!

Karen Bartleson over at her blog, The Standards Game, issued an invitation to all who care*, to become a part of the balloting process for the IEEE P1450.6.1, “Standard for Describing On-Chip Scan Compression”, or Open Compression Interface. Karen has a short explanation of the idea behind the standard, and I’ve blogged about it here before. It was ratified by Accellera in October of 2006.

This week, I’ll try to pass along Design-for-Test related DAC news as it comes along…
First, it was announced today that the standards organization Accellera has selected Bruce Cory, a DFT manager at NVIDIA, to receive the 5th annual Technical Excellence Award, for leading the effort to bring the Open Compression Interface (OCI) to be approved [...]

Another article, this by Sanjiv Teneja of Cadence Design Systems, promoting DWT, or “Design-With-Test” has been posted over at Test & Measurement, as a guest commentary. I blogged a few weeks ago about a similar article by another marketing man from the same company. I smell a conspiracy! Just kidding, go [...]