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Steak, Jugglers, and Analog Fault Models

It may take me a couple of weeks to crawl through what I saw and heard in my 3-4 days at ITC this year – many of the articles written by the trade press have already (I’ll be linking to them as I see them).  Likely by next week, you won’t see any more ITC stories.  But you will here – DFT... more »

ITC: Test is getting harder, conferences getting smaller…

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... more »

40 Years of ITC, CRC and Re-connecting…

Today was travel day for me. Started off in Long Beach, had a fairly nice flight – no one sitting next to me, so my legs weren’t suffering, but the plane had a couple really vocal toddlers – thank God for iPods.
Checked into my hotel in Austin, checked a couple e-mails, changed and walked... more »

ITC Scheduling Part Deux: Synopsys or Mentor?

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... more »

What to do, what to do: Scheduling ITC activities (part 1)

Do you want to know what I really like about ITC? Well, before I tell you, let me say up front that I don’t go to that many conferences and/or trade-shows. But ones that I’ve either been to, or have peripherally kept track of, don’t seem to be as rich in this particular kind of content that... more »

OK, OK, More 3D – I get it…

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... more »