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- From: yooho@ursula.ic.cmc.ca (Yoo Ho Cho)
- Subject: All this "testing" crap
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.162408.16287@venus.ic.cmc.ca>
- Summary: Read the charter
- Sender: usenet@venus.ic.cmc.ca (News Administrator)
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- Organization: Canadian Microelectronics Corporation
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:24:08 GMT
- Lines: 74
-
- Looking back on the past 3 or 4 articles that have arrived here
- in this group, I find the common phrases :
-
- "This is a test"
- "Testing ..."
-
- This is a group on lsi testing, not testing your news system. Topics
- like boundary scan, ATE's, test conferences, ATPGs, DFT rule checkers,
- etc. are what I was looking for when I subscribed to this group. So, a
- while back we had a lot of these "just testing" messages. Now, the charter
- gets sent out each month. Come on folks, lets get back to the lsi testing
- topics.
-
- ====================================================================
-
- This is the monthly posting of the comp.lsi.testing charter.
-
-
- NAME/GROUP:
- comp.lsi.testing
-
- STATUS:
- unmoderated
-
- CHARTER:
- 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
- * ATE
-
- Important topics are (again not restricted to)
- * Announcements (conferences, workshops, special issues)
- * Books on testing
- * Standards
- * Benchmarks
- * Questions and answers
- * Discussions concerning technical or algorithmic problems
- * Available commercial and public domain tools
-
- PLEASE: DO NOT USE THIS GROUP FOR "test" POSTINGS TO CHECK YOUR
- MAILER OR NEWS SYSTEM. THERE ARE OTHER SPECIAL GROUPS FOR THIS
- PURPOSE, such as "alt.test", "news.test", "local.test" ETC.
-
- WHY THIS 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.
-
- The discussion period showed a general agreement on the theme.
- Our first proposal for the name of the group was comp.lsi.cat,
- which is similiar to comp.lsi.cad. A number of contributors
- remarked that this name is not generally understandable or
- misleading. Among the proposed alternatives were:
- comp.lsi.test, comp.lsi.testing, comp.lsi.ate, comp.lsi.ft (fault
- tolerance). Taking into account that ".test" may sound like
- "alt.test", "news.test" which have a specific function within the
- USENET hierarchy, the proposed name "comp.lsi.testing" should be
- the most understandable and general one.
-
- Some authors commented that there are existing groups like comp.lsi
- which do not have an extreme news flow to date. Splitting therefore
- should not be necessary. We have never intended to split any group
- due to "net bandwidth", comp.lsi.testing is a new thread. A closer
- look at comp.lsi[.cad] shows that these groups are mostly design oriented,
- and this probably raises the level for participation of non-designers.
-
-