veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) (03/21/91)
CALL FOR DISCUSSION - please respond
NAME:
comp.lsi.cat
STATUS:
unmoderated
CHARTER:
"A major problem, one which is growing in importance, is testing.
Problems associated with testing of digital logic have been with
us for as long as digital logic itself has existed." [Alexander
Miczo, Digital Logic and Simulation, 1986]
During the last 25 years, an immense number of techniques,
methods and algorithms to guarantee the proper testing of
electronic devices have been introduced. Testing is an important
subject to many major international conferences (e.g. ITC, ETC,
DAC, EDAC, ICCD, ICCAD, FTCS, ISCAS) and journals (e.g. JETTA,
IEEE Trans. on CAD, IEEE Trans. on Comp.). Thus, testing is
an area of highest relevance to many CAD researchers and
professionals.
This newsgroup is intended to cover all aspects of the testing of
electronic circuits such as (but not restricted to)
* Testing of Digital and Analog Devices
* Automatic Test Pattern Generation
* Fault Modeling and Fault Simulation
* Design for Testability
* Scan Design and Built-in Self Test
* PCB-Test and Boundary Scan
* Design Verification
Important topics are
* Announcements (conferences, workshops, special issues)
* Books on testing
* Standards
* Tools
* Benchmarks
* Questions and answers
* Discussions concerning technical or algorithmic problems
WHY A NEW GROUP:
The ever increasing number of publications on testing shows a
vivid and growing interest in that subject. A newsgroup on
testing will stimulate and accelerate the exchange of related
information among interested network users. It makes it easier
to recognize current trends in testing, especially
for novices. We believe that there will be enough traffic in
the new group to justify its creation.
SCHEDULE:
1. DISCUSSION
The discussion period begins on monday, march 25.
It ends on tuesday, april 23.
(possibly continued by email)
2. VOTE
If the discussion is successful, we will send the call for votes
on monday, april 29. This posting will contain all necessary
information how to vote. The rest of the procedure will follow
the rules to create new groups (see news.announce.newusers for details).
Please respect that the follow-up of a CALL FOR DISUSSION is news.groups.
Send your opinions to this call - otherwise there will be no comp.lsi.cat.
All comments are welcome.
AUTHORS:
Nikolaus Gouders (gouders@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de)
Holger Veit (veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de)
University of Duisburg
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| |/ Dept. f. Dataprocessing | bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) (03/22/91)
In article <veit.669557680@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) writes: >NAME: > comp.lsi.cat You never explained why "CAT" is the extension in the name of the group. It would seem more appropriate to me that "ATE", for "Automated Test Engineering", would be the most appropriate extension, since the goal of all this vlsi test methodology is automated test methods. "ATE" is a widely-used acronym for this science. So, how about "comp.lsi.ate"? --Blair "Just another ex-Sentry-20 jock, wondering if FACTOR ever got readable..."
veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) (03/25/91)
In <3185@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes: >In article <veit.669557680@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) writes: >>NAME: >> comp.lsi.cat >You never explained why "CAT" is the extension in the name of the group. >It would seem more appropriate to me that "ATE", for >"Automated Test Engineering", would be the most appropriate >extension, since the goal of all this vlsi test methodology >is automated test methods. >"ATE" is a widely-used acronym for this science. >So, how about "comp.lsi.ate"? > --Blair > "Just another ex-Sentry-20 > jock, wondering if FACTOR > ever got readable..." Ok, this seems to be an omission of myself. CAT is 'computer aided testing' and was chosen in correspondence to 'computer aided design' (comp.lsi.cad). Actually, there are a large number of so-called CA techniques (CAE,CAD,CAM, CAP,CASE etc.). In my knowledge, ATE is more used for E = EQUIPMENT, i.e. the tester machine itself; and the main goal intended to be discussed in this group is not only algorithms for automated testing, but more generally all aspects including modelling, design-for-testability, standards ...) But nevertheless: We have to overthink your proposal, beneath others like comp.lsi.testing, and I would like to hear the net's opinion. Holger Veit -- | | / Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Fac. of Electr. Eng. | UUCP: ...!uunet!unido!unidui!hl351ge | |/ Dept. f. Dataprocessing |
ee00crr@unccvax.uncc.edu (Ramesh C.R) (03/25/91)
I am all for this newsgroup!! I thinks its high time that we recognize the impact of testing in the area of VLSI Design. Testing has grown well enough to be an entity in itself!! -Ramesh -- $ All I ask is a chance to prove that|E-mail:ee00crr@unccvax.uncc.edu $ $ money will not make me happy. | This space $ $ flames -> null@void.dev/null.edu | Reserved for new ideas $ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
horne@sapphire.idbsu.edu (cs354- Broward Horne) (03/27/91)
In article <3185@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes: > >It would seem more appropriate to me that "ATE", for >"Automated Test Engineering", would be the most appropriate >extension, since the goal of all this vlsi test methodology >is automated test methods. > >"ATE" is a widely-used acronym for this science. > >So, how about "comp.lsi.ate"? > > --Blair > "Just another ex-Sentry-20 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Well, it would appear you are MORE than a bizarro-engineerhead, Blair! You take good care of my 953's. Hopefully you have some technical skill as well as the B.S. degree :) I agree. ATE is the accepted industry standard. By all means, use ' comp.lsi.ate ' See ya, Mr. ATE. I'm off to CAMland. -- Broward Horne Coming this fall! "Jack McVax$ is Back " horne@sapphire.idbsu.edu With his own Tokenring of 60 386's, an030@cleveland.freenet.cwru and 1 AS/400 running MAPICTS CAM software. ha HA! BE THERE!!!
carpent@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd Carpenter) (03/28/91)
> From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) > [call for discussion deleted] > Please respect that the follow-up of a CALL FOR DISUSSION is news.groups. ^^^^^^^^^^^ > Send your opinions to this call - otherwise there will be no comp.lsi.cat. > All comments are welcome. HEY FOLKS! PAY ATTENTION TO THE POSTING, PLEASE! Talking about it over here doesn't count in the process.
pmayor@lynx.cat.syr.edu (Pankaj Mayor) (03/28/91)
In article <veit.669557680@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) writes: > >CALL FOR DISCUSSION - please respond > >NAME: > comp.lsi.cat > comp.lsi.ate is a better name for such a group. -Pankaj