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|21 Sep 1999
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|17 Ene 1996
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|17 Ene 1996
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|Francois Ducaroir, Rong Pan, Krishnan Ramamurthy
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|Lsi Logic Corporation
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This application is being filed concurrently with the following applications, and these are incorporated herein by reference: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/596,816, filed on Feb. 5, 1996, to Ramamurthy, et al. for a FAST SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/597,896, filed on Feb. 5, 1996, to Krishnan Ramamurthy, Ross MacTaggart and Francois Ducaroir for a HIGH SPEED PHASE LOCKED LOOP TEST METHOD AND MEANS; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/586,171, filed on Jan. 17, 1996, to John Daane for a METHOD FOR INTERLEAVING NETWORK TRAFFIC OVER SERIAL LINES; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/586,172, filed on Jul. 17, 1996, to Krishnan Ramamurthy, Rong Pan, and Francois Ducaroir for a SELF TEST OF CORE WITH UNPREDICTABLE LATENCY, now abandoned; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/586,174, filed on Jan. 17, 1996, to Krishnan Ramamurthy, Rong Pan, and Francois Ducaroir for a LOOP-BACK TEST SYSTEM AND METHOD, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,587,114; and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/596,174, filed on Feb. 5, 1996, to Krishnan Ramamurthy, Marc Miller Rong Pan and Francois Ducaroir for a PROGRAMMABLE SYNCHRONIZATION CHARACTER.
This invention relates to systems and methods for testing electronic circuits and, more particularly, to such systems and methods for on-chip wrap-back diagnostics of an integrated core input/output interface circuitry including serializer/deserializer I/O, analog/digital I/O, and high-speed telecommunications inverse multiplexor I/O.
Integrated circuits are becoming increasingly more complex as more core devices and supporting logic are integrated onto a single chip. This is driven, in part, from the need to provide increased functionality in less space, with lower power consumption and with higher bandwidths. These product performance requirements force integrated circuit designers to populate a single chip with several devices which may include controllers, memory blocks, processors, and various input/output (I/O) interfaces to provide a complex integrated circuit.
As an example, improvements in microprocessor performance has resulted in data transfer bandwidths that typically outpace I/O transfer rates. In the telecommunications industry, for example, high speed telecommunications data is converted into multiple low-speed T1 data paths for transmission and then reconverted to the high-speed data at the receiver. As another example, analogue signals are routinely converted to a digital signal, transmitted, and then reconverted back to the analog signal.
Similarly, parallel data I/O bus bottlenecks result in performance compromises in peripheral and network interfaces, and accordingly have spurred the development of high-speed serial transfer methods. Unlike conventional protocols where data is transferred over multiple conducting traces or wires, parallel data is converted into a high-speed, serial data stream. The serial data stream is typically converted back to parallel data be a deserializer at a receiving peripheral device for application with the particular logic in that device. Integration of such I/O interfaces as part of a complex integrated circuit on a single chip is consistent with proximally locating the serializer/deserializer I/O with the devices that are either transmitting or receiving the data, thus avoiding I/O bus bandwidth limitations and enabling higher data transfer rates. The integration of increasing numbers of functional devices onto a single chip and the resulting complex interconnectivity requirements of these devices with other devices on and off the chip has resulted in the integration of high-speed serializer/deserializer I/O interface cores or macrocells onto the chip containing the customers logic.
High levels of device integration onto a single chip, while reducing the chip count on a board, will increase the unit cost of the integrated circuit. This is principally due to lower manufacturing yields resulting from the increased process complexities associated with the manufacture of such highly integrated devices, as well as the yield impact attendant with the additional process steps required to fabricate these chips. Accordingly, it is well known that the likelihood of manufacturing defects increases as chip complexity increases. Core device tolerances become increasingly critical as the devices are packed closer together and are required to operate and interact at higher bandwidths. Deviation from these tolerances can cause defects in the chips resulting in lower process yields, increased screening of finished goods, resulting in higher per unit costs. Also, the additional process steps associated with the fabrication of these highly integrated circuits provide further opportunities for defects and thus increased cost due to lower manufacturing yields.
The high cost of manufacturing these complex integrated circuits makes it desirable, therefore, to identify product defects as early in the manufacturing process as possible, thus avoiding the expense of further processing an otherwise defective chip. Also, early manufacturing rejection of defective parts reduces the amount of screening required of the finished product. Accordingly, where an I/O interface is incorporated as a core device on an integrated circuit, it is desirable to test the I/O interface during the manufacture, or as shortly thereafter as possible, of the integrated circuit to determine if the I/O interface is operating to specification before additional time and money are expended to complete the fabrication of what might otherwise be a defective device, or to avoid costs associated with installation of a defective device onto a board.
Currently there are no commercially available testers capable of testing an embedded, high-speed I/O interface at the I/O interface design limits. Current testing devices and hardware are limited to data transfer rates of up to about 500 Mb/sec. Consequently, serializer/deserializer I/O interfaces capable of data transfer rates exceeding 500 Mb/sec cannot be tested to the limits of the I/O interface's data transfer rate performance specification on testers that are commercially available today. To compound the problem, merely testing the I/O interface at a commercially available tester's highest data transfer rate is not an acceptable solution because many high-speed I/O interface devices are incapable of operating at the relatively lower speeds limiting these testers. Further, even if the device could be tested at these lower data rates, such a test is not indicative of the integrity or quality of the I/O interface device since it is not being tested at its full operating data transfer rate. Accordingly, testing of embedded I/O interface devices using commercially available testers is not possible, and confirmation of the operability and performance of the embedded I/O is not possible until the chip on which the I/O is assembled is at least assembled at the board level, at which time any defect detected becomes more core costly to repair or replace.
Currently, wrapback testing of high-speed serializer/deserializer I/O interfaces cannot be performed within the I/O macrocell. Such testing may only be performed on nonintegrated I/O components where interconnectivity between the nonintegrated components permit such testing, or is performed in combination with either other chips on a completed card or as part of the entire communications system in which the card is component (such testing of components external to the serializer/deserializer I/O interface is more appropriately termed "loopback" testing). With this method of testing, it cannot be determined which chip on a card or which device on a chip is defective in the event a fault is detected. As a result, either the entire board is discarded or further testing is required in order to identify the defective board component so that it might be replaced. Such fault testing is not optimal in the sense that significant cost can be avoided if it can be determined that the I/O interface is defective early in the manufacture of the component chip containing the I/O interface core, or before assembly of that chip onto a board.
Accordingly, there is a need for on-chip diagnostics systems and methods for core I/O interface devices, including serializer/deserializer I/O interfaces, inverse multiplexer telecommunications interfaces, and analog/digital interfaces so that defects may be detected early during the manufacturing process.
Kovach et al., U.S. Pat. No. 5,043,931, teaches a wrap back diagnostic capability on analog-to-digital conversion systems, for example audio digitizing capture and playback adapter boards or cards. They teach a connector system on an I/O card having a first state wherein digital-to-analog converter (DAC) outputs are automatically, internal to the card, routed to corresponding analog-to-digital converter (ADC) inputs thereby closing a wrap loop whereupon automated DAC to ADC loop tests are performed. They also teach a second switching state which is provided automatically upon insertion of connector plugs (such as miniature audio plugs) into the connector system whereby the loop is broken and the DAC outputs and ADC inputs are made available externally to respective output and input connectors for normal operation of the card. Their system will detect board-level I/O faults only after the component chips have been fabricated and assembled onto the card. Their system does not provide for detecting defects in the I/O interface or other integrated core devices, thus precluding wrapback testing of the during manufacture of the I/O chip, or of an embedded I/O core in an integrated circuit prior to its assembly onto a circuit board.
Marshall, U.S. Pat. No. 5,274,668, teaches using the demodulator circuit of his invention as a component in a signal processing circuit. The signal processing circuit is shown as consisting of several integrated circuits including a digital transmitter-receiver integrated circuit as an additional board component. The digital transmitter-receiver integrated circuit is shown as having an internal feedback loop going from the output of the tansmitter to the input of the receiver. Data looped back from the transmitter is compared off-chip in a processor circuit with the original data. This test is unsuitable for the early detection of defects in the manufacturing process in a core I/O interface of an integrated cirecuit. As taught, this test scheme requires two separate integrated circuits. The signal comparison in this circuit is performed by a different, separate integrated circuit (the "processor") thus making possible the loop-back test only after the board has been assembled. Consequently, early manufacturing loop-back testing of the digital transmitter-receiver core cannot be performed during the manufacturing of the transmitter-receiver core since the additional processor integrated is required to perform the test.
Other wrap-back and loop-back diagnostic systems are typified by Barton et al., U.S. Pat. No. 5,343,4611. They describe a facility-level loop-back test, diagnostic and maintenance system having a digital transmission facility, transmission medium, and at least one microprocessor-based, full duplex facility loop-back diagnostics interface located at predetermined end-user locations within their system. Their system is intended to fault test an entire system, such as a local area network, wide area network, or telephone system. Their system fault testing will not identify faults up to the I/O interface circuit. A failed circuit within the I/O interface circuit will not be detected by this system or any other system wherein the loop-back or wrap back is performed off-chip and includes external elements such as transmission lines, wires, fiber-optic cable, other logic, and the like. In the event a fault was detected, these external elements would introduce uncertainty as to which element may have failed.
Other background art is directed to loop-back and wrap-back testing schemes of data communication systems whereby such testing does not interfere with the availability of the communications system. Casady et al., U.S. Pat. No. 4,908,819, is directed to a an integrated data voice multiplxer (IDVM) capable of simultaneously supporting loop-back and communication handshake protocols with no performance degradation. He shows a wide-area like network wherein data is transmitted using frequency shift keyed modulation of two or more carrier signals. The presence or absence of crrier signals is used to indicate a loop-back state. Their invention is directed to a completed, installed macro-system, and improves over Barton et al and the like, by providing for loop-back testing without interfering with the availability of the system.
There is a need to provide an on-chip self-test wrap-back test system in an I/O interface core of an integrated circuit to provide a means for fault testing the I/O interface circuit so that the defective I/O interface circuit may be identified as early as possible in the manufacturing process. Further, a wrap-back test within the I/O interface core of an integrated circuit is needed in order to provide resolution sufficient to identify an operational fault with the I/O interface in the event a system fault is determined to have occurred.
It is among the objects of this invention to provide a wrapback self test system in an I/O interface device integrated into an integrated circuit to permit early detection of I/O interface defects during its manufacture, or prior to assembly of the integrated circuit onto a board, and to enable wrap-back fault detection at an intra-chip resolution.
It is another object of this invention to provide a method for performing wrap-back testing in an I/O interface circuit core integrated into an integrated circuit to permit early detection of I/O interface defects during its manufacture, or prior to assembly of the integrated circuit onto a board, and to enable wrap-back fault detection at an intra-chip resolution.
Still other objects, features, aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following Summary and Detailed Description of the present invention, when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
This invention is directed to on-chip diagnostics, including wrap-back testing of an embedded I/O interface macrocell or core on an integrated circuit. A core is defined as a fully defined, optimized, and reusable block of logic, which supports industry-standard functionality, and has predefined timing and layout. The integrated circuit may consist of a plurality of core devices or it may be as simple as at least one I/O interface circuit. A wrap-back test is defined as a performance test of a portion of the core domain. Data is diverted entirely within the core domain for the purpose of ascertaining the proper functioning of predetermined blocks or sections of the core. Proper performance of these sections is determined by comparing the integrity of the wrapped-back test data with the original test data. A wrap-back test typically intercepts test data and routes it to the output of the core prior to subjecting the test data to all of the functional elements of the core.
Any I/O interface which chances the attributes of the data being transmitted may benefit from the wrapback system and method of this application. By way of example and not by limitation, the system and method of this invention may be applied to inverse multiplexers commonly used in the telecommunications industry to wrap back the high speed test data before it is multiplexed to the separate T1 channels, or in analog/digital I/Os to wrap back just the analog portion of the I/O.
By way of illustration and not by limitation, the wrap-back system and method of this invention is exemplified by application to a fill-duplex transceiver I/O core having a serializer/deserializer I/O interface. In this embodiment, parallel data is received into a serializer portion of the I/O core where it is serialized, stored in a transmit buffer, and exits the transmit buffer as serial data at a data rate equal to the product of the width of the parallel stream and the parallel data rate. The receiver portion of the I/O interface receives serial data into a receive buffer, directs the stored data into a deserializer where it is converted to parallel data, the parallel data is directed into a data alignment unit (DAU) where a reference clock signal is extracted from the serial data, and the parallel data is realigned and synchronized with the reference clock. This I/O interface core may be integrated as a core device on an integrated circuit having other core logic from which I/O parallel data is generated or applied, or it may be integrated as a core device on an integrated circuit either as a stand-alone I/O circuit or as an array of such I/O devices.
In the wrap-back mode, a wrap-back request is asserted to the I/O core causing parallel test data entering the transmitter serializer to be diverted, prior to being serialized, directly to the DAU. The parallel test data exiting the DAU is compared to the original parallel test data that was supplied to the transmit serializer. Test data may be supplied to the transmitter portion of the I/O interface either externally or by test data stored in a built-in self-tester (BIST). The BIST may optionally provide an error output signal to indicate when the sent and received data do not match, and an error counter and error trace buffer may be used to help identify the nature of the error and the bit-error rate. The output of the error counter and error trace buffer may be made available by means of a dedicated output bus.
A feature of this invention is that the wrap-back test is performed on the digital portion of the I/O circuit, while the analogue portions (the serializer and the deserializer) are bypassed. Further, the analogue portions may be powered down or powered-up depending upon the nature of the wrap-back test performed.
A feature of the fully self-contained wrap-back test of this invention is that it allows for the capability of testing the I/O core in an integrated circuit prior to completion of the chip manufacturing process, or shortly thereafter and prior to assembly of the chip onto a board. This capability not only avoids the added cost of having to repair or reject an entire board, but also allows testing of the I/O circuits at the design data transfer rate. By having the ability to perform a totally on-chip wrap-back test to test the I/O core, chips having defective I/O interfaces may be rejected relatively early in the manufacturing process. This not only avoids the time and costs associated with the later screening of finished goods, but also reduces the overhead associated with the further manufacture of defective product, including additional process and test equipment and machine operators.
An additional advantage of the on-chip wrap-back test of this invention is that the wrap-back inputs may be taken off-chip, thus allowing external logic to enable the core's parallel wrapback mode. Since test data may be supplied either internally as pseudo-random data, or externally, the test is at the full operational bandwidth of the I/O interface. This ability to request a wrap-back test of the I/O interface is permitted by making accessable the wrap-back request inputs of the core as available pins on the integrated circuit.
As high-speed serial communications becomes more prevalent, particularly in backplane connectivity in systems with multiple boards, in chip-to-chip connectivity on the same board, and in core-to-core connectivity between devices on the same chip, the current wrap-back tests as described in the background art beome inadequate. Diagnostic tests which merely identify faults relating to communication elements external to the system, such as transmission cables and remote terminals, do not have the required resolution to isolate faults within the system such as between boards, between chips, or between core devices within a chip. Given the complexity of the chips, boards and systems currently in use today, loop-back tests and wrap-back tests capable of providing such resolution are desirable for intra-system diagnostics. The capability of accessing the wrap-back test mode of the I/O core is desirable, for example, where the integrated circuit containing the I/O interface having the on-chip wrap-back test of this invention has been placed in service and such a test becomes necessary as part of a maintenance protocol to identify faults to a chip-level or intra-level resolution.
The invention is illustrated by reference to the drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 shows a system block diagram of a typical integrated circuit having an I/O serializer/deserializer interface core integrated thereon;
FIG. 2 illustrates the interconnectivity of two integrated circuits each having an I/O serializer/deserializer interface core integrated thereon;
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an I/O serializer/deserializer interface core incorporating the wrap-back system of this invention; and
FIG. 4 is block diagram of a preferred embodiment of the wrap-back system of this invention.
The following detailed description illustrates the invention by way of example, not by way of limitation of the principles of the invention. This description will clearly enable one skilled in the art to make and use the invention, and describes several embodiments, adaptations, variations, alternatives and uses of the invention, including what we presently believe is the best mode of carrying out the invention.
FIG. 1 is a system block diagram showing an I/O interface core 1 integrated with other logic devices 2 on an integrated circuit chip 3. Parallel data 4 from other integrated logic devices 2 is received by the transmitter portion 5 of the I/O interface core 1, is converted to serial form, and exits the transmitter portion 5 as serial data 6 for serial communication with off-chip external elements. Although, the parallell data shown is ten bits wide to aid in preserving the direct current balance of the circuit, it is understood that the parallel data can be of any width for purposes of the wrap back test.
Serial data 7 is received by the receiver portion 8 of the I/O interface and is converted into parallel data 9, and the alignment pattern and reference clock signal is extracted. The reconverted parallel data is aligned and exits the receiver portion 8 for parallel communication with the other integrated logic devices 2. FIG. 2 shows two integrated circuits 3, 3' having an I/O interface core 1, 1' integrated into each chip, in serial communication with one another. The transmission means 10 includes wire, fiber optics, microwaves, and the like. The customer logic 2, 2' may be a single core device or be comprised of a plurality of core devices operatively connected with one another and to the I/O interface to provide a specific application or function.
FIG. 3 is a core block diagram of an I/O circuit embodying the wrap-back system of this invention. During normal operation alignment pattern encoded parallel data from either other core devices on the chip, or from an external device is clocked into the serializer portion 11 of the transmitter portion 5 of the I/O interface 1, the clock signal being provided by the clock generator 14. The serial data is conveyed to the transmit output buffer 15 where it is then transmitted as a transmit serial data pair 6, for receipt by a serial data receiver.
Incoming serial data is received as a receive serial pair 7 and is directed into a serial data input buffer. The serial data is moved from the buffer into a deserializer 12 where it is converted to parallel data, and the embedded alignment pattern is recovered in the data and Clock Recovery Unit 17. The parallel data is aligned with the recovered alignment pattern in a Data Alignment Unit and exits the I/O core as synchronized parallel data 4.
The parallel data wrap-back mode wraps alignment pattern encoded parallel data from the tranmitter prior to serialization of the data to the receiver. This mode permits testing the functionality of all but the serializer and deserializer portions of the core, that is, all of the digital portion and some of the analog portion of the core are tested. Referring to FIG. 3, to initiate the wrap-back test mode, a request for wrap-back test is asserted from off-chip to generate a wrapback test request signal 22. Pseudo-random or other alignment pattern encoded parallel test data may be supplied from off-chip or alternately, the parallel test data may be supplied on-chip by a built-in self test (BIST) unit 20. An internal wrap-back switching circuit 23 redirects the test parallel data, prior to the data being serialized, via traces 24 to the DAU 18. The switching circuit 23 may be of any type designed to shunt the parallel data to the DAU. Such designs are known by persons skilled in electronic circuit design. The devices used in the circuit include FET, bipolar, or other semiconductor device combinations also known by those of skill in the art. The switching circuit is designed to ensure a D.C. balance in the circuit. The test parallel data is compared to the original input test data 9 to determine the bit error rate of the digital portions of the I/O core interface circuit.
In the I/O interface, during the wrap-back test, the DAU 18 must be made unavailable to any deserialized data received by the receiver during wrap-back test mode. Accordingly, provision must be made to lock out the received, reconverted data so long as the wrap back test input data is being shunted directly into the DAU 18. The parallel data 4 exiting the DAU 18 with the test parallel data so that they might be compared for error analysis. Although not shown, the BIST unit may contain an error counter and and error trace buffer. These devices would determine the bit-error rate and characterize the error type or source. The results of the analysis may be accessed externally via an error report bus.
FIG. 4 is a systems diagram of a wrap back system wherein parallel data 9 enters the transmitter input stage 25 of the transmitter section of the serializer 11. While FIG. 4 shows 20 bit wide parallel input data, it is understood that the width of the parallel data may be of any length. When the wrap back signal is asserted, the input parallel data 9 or a portion thereof is shunted from the transmitter input stage 25 prior to the data being serialized. The shunted data, or wrapdata 26, is directed to a switching ciruit 27 wherein, upon assertion of the wrapback request signal 22, deserialized parallel data 28 from the deserializer is shunted off, and the wrapdata 26 is directed into the data alignment unit 18. The switching circuit 27 may of any type designed to shunt the parallel wrap data to the DAU while turning off the parallel data from the deserializer. Such designs are known by persons skilled in electronic circuit design. The devices used in the circuit include FET, bipolar, or other semiconductor devices or combinations also known by those of skill in the art, suitable to perform the required function, and to ensure a D.C. balance in the circuit. The encoded alignment pattern is extracted from the wrap data and the wrapdata is aligned and synchronized with an alignment pattern 29. The aligned parallel data is then compared to the original input parallel data 9. An optional bit error report may be obtained from the BIST 20.
Although the present invention described herein and above are preferred embodiments, it is understood that after having read the above description, various alternatives will become apparent to those persons skilled in the art. For example, the wrap back system and method of this invention may be used in any integrated I/O device having both a transmitter and a receiver in the same macrocell or core, and where input data is converted from a first format to provide output data at a second for output, and where data is received in the second format and reconverted to the first format. Accordingly, the wrap back system and method of this invention may be used in analog/digital to digital/analog I/Os, and in telecommunications inverse multiplexer I/Os. We therefore wish our invention to be defined by the scope of the appended claims as broadly as the prior art will permit, and in view of the specification and drawings.
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Eggnog from David Myers
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- December 19th, 2011
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4 Egg Yolks
4 Egg Whites
2.5 Tbsp Sugar
1 cup Milk
1 cup Heavy Whipping Cream
1 oz Buffalo Trace Bourbon
1 oz Applejack
Pinch of Grated Nutmeg
Mix egg yolks with half the sugar (1.5 Tbsp) and continue beat until dissolved
Add milk, cream, bourbon, brandy and nutmeg; stir to combine
Whisk remaining sugar and egg whites together until stiff peaks form; add to mixture
Chill, pour in cup. Grate nutmeg on top and serve.
Yield: About 4 servings
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Boy, is it nice to being enjoying a David Myers creation once again. During the first half of the 2000s, his Los Angeles restaurant Sona was one of our favorite haunts, and I can safely say that the vast majority of friends that we have in the restaurant business we met at Sona or through David and his team. Times, for better or worse, change. In 2007, the company for which I was working went out of business, and our personal finances could no longer include lavish meals. Shortly thereafter, junior came along, and I can honestly say that we've only had two nights out together since then – and one was to bartend a friend's event. I'll extend my apologies to David for having been scarce these past few years, but it doesn't mean that we haven't been thinking about him.
There's a question that we ask in our 12 Rounds feature: "What was your first formative cocktail experience?" For both Lesley and I, that experience would have been sitting at the Sona bar while David, having stepped out of the kitchen, personally mixed us up a Penicillin, which remains one of my favorite drinks. Always looking for new tastes and inspirations – Sona's menu was extremely of the moment – Myers had returned from visiting the emerging speakeasy scene in New York and came back with an entirely new vision for the Sona cocktail program. Although delicious, gone would be the Sonapolitan and in its place would be the Bramble.
When Myers opened his second restaurant, Comme Ça, the New York bar influence was undeniable. Star bartender Sam Ross (inventor of the Penicillin) was brought in to get the Comme Ça staff up and running on the classics, and it was not long after that everyone else was following along. Bartenders at Comme Ça certainly didn't last long – after what seemed like a few weeks on the job, they would get snatched up by competitors, and I still run into many of them manning the sticks around town.
Whether David Myers directly ignited the classic Los Angeles bar scene or not, I cannot say, but he was our entrée into that world. I will say that had we never met David and had he not been the person he is, 12 Bottle bar certainly would not exist. As much a surfer as he is a chef, Myers possesses an easy confidence that betrays his years of experience. Starting in the kitchens of legends Charlie Trotter and Daniel Boulud and having built his own successful restaurant group, David is consistently recognized as one of the country's leading chefs. Sona earned a Michelin star, Food & Wine named him one of the country's "Best New Chefs" (2003), Angeleno declared him 2004's "Chef of the Year", and he's been twice nominated for a James Beard award, as "Rising Star of the Year" (2004) and "Best Chef Pacific" (2008). Most important of all – at least from my perspective – was Jonathan Gold's anointment of Comme Ça as having the "Best Burger in Los Angeles". I haven't had one in a while, but the mouth-watering memory does still linger.
As mentioned, should you meet David, you wouldn't suspect his many achievements – not because they are undeserved, mind you, but because he doesn't wear them like badges. Over the years, we've met chefs of all stripes – from local wunderkinds who have their staffs remind you how lucky you are to have shaken their hands to people like Daniel Boulud, who effortlessly charm you into believing that you are the most important person in the world. And although we haven't seen Myers in a very long time, we still consider him a friend – one of the few chefs to come out of the kitchen at the end of the shift and share a drink with you at the bar.
In assembling our wish list of contributors for this year's holiday drinks, we made a concerted effort to mix things up a bit. Along with professional bartenders, you'll find those who write about drinks as well as friends from the food side of things. After all, food and drink are inseparable, and many chefs are as skilled behind the bar as they are in the kitchen. David Myers' classic contribution of eggnog to our holiday offerings indeed falls somewhere between kitchen and bar. You'll notice that there's very little alcohol in it, but it's just enough to shine through beautifully. Rather than reaching for the vanilla bottle (or the bourbon vanilla bottle, if you're feeling fancy), Myers' recipe coaxes those warm, round qualities out of the spirits. Moreover, it's a thousand times more honest and economical than an HFCS-laden store-bought brand. Plus, it's stupidly simple to make – make it once, and you'll think twice about ever buying a carton again.
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Eggnog symbolizes the holidays for me. When I see it available, usually right after Thanksgiving, I always get excited as it means there is just a few more week to go before Christmas. It reminds me of weekend parties with family hanging around the Christmas tree. I love the rich, creamy spiciness of it and now mixed with the bourbon and applejack, it is even better.
Out of respect for our audience, I'll provide a couple of tweaks you can make to the booze. Any nice brandy, bourbon, or gold rum will work, as will a sweeter rye, like Old Overholt. Having tried it with the bourbon and applejack (well, Laird's Bonded Apple Brandy), I will not question David's choices, as they are very tasty indeed. Also, if you're feeling the need to "get your nog on", you can certainly booze things up, but I'll recommend that you do it once it's in your glass and no more than half an ounce at a time. It's easy to upset the balance.
Even though this is our second annual holiday drinks campaign, we haven't before featured traditional eggnog. Today, we fix that, but I know that many of you – me included – won't be satisfied with just a scrumptious drink alone, so here's a bit of back story on Christmas's favorite tipple ( which I'm also going to use to plug one of favorite sites, having undergone a wonderful retooling.) This year friend Conner at Historical Food re-launched his site as RecipeWISE, with the "WISE" standing for "Wales Ireland Scotland England," a great summation of what you'll find there. While all of the same great historic recipes are still available on the site, RecipeWISE now expands the focus to include modern classic British and Irish recipes.
Per RecipeWISE, the origins of modern eggnog can most likely be traced back to an earlier drink called "posset" or the Tudor-era Egg Flip, which was comprised of beer, rum, and sugar and heated with a red-hot iron (I'm adding iron pokers to next year's gift guide). As for the name "nog", the suspected origins are that it comes from the word "noggin", a small English wooden cup, or from the term "egg-and-grog", which plays to eggnog's association with rum.
The earliest reference to modern eggnog I found was from 1790 but it offers no description. 1799's Travels Through the States of North America, and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada During the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 does however. Within its pages, we are given this description: "The American travellers, [sic] before they pursued their journey, took a hearty draught each, according to custom, of egg-nog, a mixture composed of new milk, eggs, rum, and sugar, beat up together."
By 1815, we see the association with the holiday in Niles Weekly Register, an American newsweekly which ran from 1811 to 1849. The Saturday, March 4, 1815 edition, re-reporting "Scraps" from the London papers, tells us: "Mr. (John Payne) Todd, one of the secretaries, and son-in-law of Mr. (and then President James) Madison, had invited some gentlemen of his country and some others, to partake with him of a liquor with which the Americans used to treat their friends on Christmas Day, and which is called egg-nog." Apparently, if you're interested, John Payne Todd had been appointed secretary to a U.S. delegation to Europe by his step-father, the President. More than being nepotistic, Madison was trying to find something useful for the young man to do, but all that Todd accomplished was drinking, gambling, and racking up debt – Madison had to pay off $40,000 in Payne's bills, which still wasn't enough to keep his son-in-law out of debtor's prison.
But back to the drink. As our colonial forefathers found eggnog to be just the thing to ward off the affects of a cold, cold winter, it's no wonder that chef David Myers, having spent his formative years in Ohio, Chicago, and New York, is more than familiar with its powers. We thank David for today's contribution, which has now become our standard recipe. Should you be in the area, please be sure to visit any one of David's restaurants in Los Angeles, Orange County (CA), Las Vegas, or Tokyo. If you do, be sure to tell them that we sent you – just so they know that we're still thinking about them – and that we'll be in again soon.
Esoterica: In 2008, Myers was named one of GQ's "Men of Style". I didn't mention it here because no one needs another article saying how handsome David is. The dude knows.


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Episode 55 — Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
Series: Sermon on the Mount
This week Marlin Klingensmith, Randy Johovich and Don Maurer continue a discussion on the Sermon on the Mount. This week they begin the Beatitudes and deal with the first of the blessings: Blessed are the poor in spirit.
Running time: 31:28
Click here for episode 55: Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
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Matthew 5:3-11
3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
5 "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
6 "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
7 "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
8 "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
9 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
10 "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 "Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.


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At last week's Children's Media Conference in Sheffield, SyncScreen™, innovators in the creation and delivery of harmonised two-screen TV experiences, talked about some of the success secrets behind the 'Gory Games' play-along app which ran for 15 episodes through May on CBBC. SyncScreen explained the production workflow for the integrated two-screen play-along apps:
The BBC confirmed the success of the Gory Games play-along app, with Gory Games peaking at a 15% conversion rate for viewers playing along and with over 100,000 downloads of the app.
CBBC has been experimenting with "play along" apps for shows including Horrible History Gory Games and Ludus and in 2014, with children able to answer questions alongside the on-screen contestants. Ludus also achieved a conversion rate of between 10% and 15% and achieved over 100,000 downloads. Both apps are powered by the SyncScreen.
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SB 796 accomplishes a variety of things, with the most notable for craft breweries being the cap placed on retail locations.
The new provision loosens the tied-house restrictions in some aspects by allowing an individual already in possession of an on-sale license to also own a beer manufacturing license, so long as that individual owns no more than six such licenses. That same individual can invest, serve on the board of directors, or be employed at the brewery.
On the other hand, the law simultaneously limits the number of retail locations that a brewery may operate, whether directly though its own license, or indirectly through common ownership (including these new-fangled investors), to a maximum of six. Any alcoholic beverages purchased for the on-sale licensees associated with that new investor must be purchased either through an independent wholesaler or from a licensed beer manufacturer that is adjacent and contiguous to the on-sale licensee.
On a similar note, individuals with less than 10% interest in a private equity fund that also holds an interest in another license are now eligible investors for another licensed entity. The private equity fund's interest in the other ABC license must be a passive investment and its advisors must be compliant with the federal Investment Advisors Act for the arrangement to pass muster. The potential investor must not have any control over the investment decisions of the equity fund, as attested by the fund's manager.
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Congressman Wu is telling people the health care reform bill now going through Congress that will be paid for by taking billions from medicare, won't really harm those on medicare now.
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In Oregon, because of extraordinarily low medicare reimbursement rates, doctors limit the number of medicare patients they take, and medicare patients feel like the plague. I'm one, I know. You lose your doctor and go ahead, try to find one accepting a (gulp) medicare patient. They hate us in Oregon because of the low reimbursement rates. Raiding medicare to pay for a health care bill will make matters a trillion times worse here in Oregon.
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We thought it would be a good idea to talk to Mark Sarvas about his new book, and we're grateful that he took a few minutes to answer our questions.
Dennis Haritou: Thanks Mark, for taking our questions. Aside from the title character, there are many memorable secondary characters that take the stage in Harry Revised. Some appear for only a chapter while others seem to haunt the book. Do you have a favorite?
Mark Sarvas: First, let me thank you for this invitation and for your wonderful consideration of my novel. I don't know why you picked mine to launch your venture but I am grateful you did, and every debut novelist should have the experience of being read as thoughtfully as I have been here. So, thank you.
And that gave us Elliott. I'm also partial to Lucille, who began as little more than a plot device and very quickly came fully to life – I think the Harry/Lucille relationship might be my favorite in the book.
DH: We did not touch upon this subject in the Three Guys discussion but social class plays an important role in your book. At one point Harry tries to help the working class waitress, Lucille. And you also have scenes with Harry's upper class in-laws. Depicting people from different walks of life in Harry Revised seemed to be important to you. Is that right?
MS: It was, although not so much from a class warrior perspective so much as supporting this idea of exclusion, people rejected for a variety of reasons – income, birth, education. I think anyone who has ever stood on the wrong side of a rope line knows what powerful emotions that sort of rejection can roil up, and that seemed fertile terrain for this story.
DH: The meaning of your title, Harry Revised, came up in the Three Guys discussion. Does Harry revise himself or does he get revised by what happens to him? It's probably a bit of both, of course, but I wondered where you would want to lay the emphasis.
MS: As you point out, it is, indeed, a bit of both. The theme that really occupied me during the writing of Harry was change – how does one change? Is change even possible? What does it mean? And at what point does it shift from the things one does to the effect of those things on others? It's an endlessly interesting question with, I think, no single or clear answer. But one of the most important questions in the book occurs when Harry wonders if the secret of change is merely believing one's own spin. Because at some point, we have a vision of what or whom we'd like to be, and we strive to move toward that. Does the striving make it somehow inauthentic? Or is hard work the only real way to transform? Like I said, I don't have a single answer but I could chew on it for hours …
DH: In our discussion we talked about whether we liked Harry as a person. What kinds of feelings do you have about him as a character? Do you "like" him? Were you exasperated with him at times? I put it that way because many of your readers may have had those feelings about Harry and I wondered if you as the writer could share them.
MS: I do like Harry, yes, but I had inside knowledge – I knew he was going to more or less sort it out. And I also knew that I was going to be throwing the kitchen sink at him for his trespasses. So he sort of had my sympathy going in. But I knew all along that I was setting out on a hard road because he isn't likeable, really, at least not until the end. I knew I was gambling that readers might be so turned off that they might abandon him before he reached his safe harbor, but I was hoping that they'd see it through. As I've said a few times now, it's not that you need to like Harry – I just want you to root for him to do the right thing. And if you do, I suspect you'll find that faith more or less rewarded. (Incidentally, in How Fiction Works, which Dennis alluded to, Wood talks about the silliness of requiring characters to be "likeable" – is Ahab likeable? Is Humbert Humbert?)
DH: Harry Revised is hilariously funny at times although the themes of the novel can be very serious. Was this a hard balance to strike and did you enjoy writing the funny stuff just as much as the most serious stuff? I wondered because you seemed to have a lot of fun at Harry's expense, like that scene where he is snookered by the jewelry sales clerk or in his spin class where he literally did spin when he took a tumble.
MS: I think I took some of the gags a bit too far, and if I had the book to do over again, I might dial it down a notch. But the balance emerged over drafts, smoothing it out time and time again, working very diligently to try to get it right. I enjoy funny books, of course, but I require ballast, too, and I think the sections I'm proudest of tilt toward the seriousness, not the humor. (Jason mentioned the scene by the fireplace, which is one of my favorites, and only came in during the final draft.)
DH: The Three Guys talked about Harry's mourning for his late wife, Anne. We debated whether it was genuine or not. I think that people who have been through the mourning experience will be impressed by your treatment of it. What is the relation between his mourning and Harry's attempts to be a better person? And it seemed to be the case to me, not to become too personal, that you must have gone through such an experience yourself in order to depict it so well. I say that because I have been through such an experience and I recognized it in Harry when I saw it.
MS: Thank you – I'm really pleased by your reaction. Sure, I've experienced loss; I suspect most of us past a certain age have. What was central for Harry, though, was his dogged determination to avoid experiencing his loss, to distract himself at every opportunity in order to keep this terrifying grief at bay. So the becoming a better person part is, in large measure, a piece of that distraction but it has the ironic effect that if he does actually become that better person, he will be able to behold this loss in a way that Harry 1.0 would have been unable to.
DH: The Three Guys also debated Harry's relationship to his late wife. Did you see their marriage as a success or a failure? Or how would you characterize it? It's hard to tell what Harry himself thought of it and this ambiguity, like so many fine ambiguities in your book, was an asset that contributed to the novel's richness. So did Harry both mourn for his wife and be glad that he was separated from her?
MS: I was most fascinated by this discussion between the three of you and I loved reading the competing interpretations, especially the idea that Anna married Harry to spite her parents, which wasn't what I intended but is a wonderfully provocative reading. I think once the book leaves my desk and lands in readers' hands, it's all fair game, so I won't go so far as to say any reading is right or wrong. And because I do intend the ambiguity, I am reluctant to weigh in too firmly on the question of the marriage other than to say that I think Harry considers it a missed opportunity – one, to his eternal heartbreak – he'll never recapture.
DH: Managing change at any point in life is not easy. At midlife, where we met Harry, it's especially hard. Whether people can change for the better or not is at the heart of the conflicts in Harry Revised. If you could say anything about change to the Harrys of the world that are struggling, what would it be?
MS: I think I hit on this in
my answer above about the title, but to directly respond to this question, I'd say that I do believe wholeheartedly that people can and do change, (I've seen it) but I also think it requires total commitment and hard work. If my surrogate Harrys are looking for it to come easily, they're bound for disappointment.
DH: JR suggested that I ask you about The Count of Monte Cristo. That old classic seems to be a template for change for Harry and an inspiration, even though Harry is no Count of Monte Cristo as indeed none of us are. It's sort of funny, sad and admirable all at the same time that Harry is so inspired by this book. Is that the way you felt about it? Also, I have to ask, did you read the abridged version, as Harry has, or the unabridged version…or neither? I have heard that you are a Francophile so I imagine that the novel is a favorite of yours and that you may have read through a lot of 19th century French literature, especially including all those swashbuckling adventure novels of the period like say, Captain Fracasse, as one example.
MS: Ah, abridged or unabridged – that is the question. I've read both. I read the abridged years ago when I was working on a film adaptation which involved setting it in the present day; and then I picked up the unabridged and took it with me to Paris one year, where I marveled at Dumas' energy and plotting skills. It's my hope that my French will get good enough to read it in the original language (unabridged) but that's a good way off. One of the reasons for the inclusion is that it's my nod to the whole plot/no plot argument in the world of literary fiction. Obviously, I'm someone who loves plot and thinks the imperatives or narrative and the imperatives of literary fiction (whatever those might be) can be married successfully, which is what I tried to do with Harry, Revised, even down to the cliff-hangerish chapter endings typical of Dumas. I don't know Captain Fracasse, I'm sad to say, but have added him to my list …
DH: Your very distinguished blog, The Elegant Variation, has inspired a lot of people to love literature, I think, not more but better, like what Pound says about the importance of loving well. The Three Guys have started their book discussion blog and you were kind enough to notice us. But in relation to your blog, I feel that we are living in a shack but we are staring out the window of our shack at the foot of the Acropolis which is your blog. But if I could characterize the key to your blog in two concepts, I would say that it is comprised in equal measure of love of literature and the love of friendship. What do you think about that assessment? Have I hit the mark at all?
MS: I think you are dead-on in your assessment, though I fear the Acropolis comparison is kind overpraise. No false modesty here, I truly was lucky in the timing when I launched my site but what has kept it going (and growing) is this sense of a shared conversation, of an open literary community. I kind of try to make it feel like a virtual salon, where I can toss a few ideas in the air and invite my readers to catch them and run – as they often do. There's nothing more satisfying than watching a conversation unfold in the comments section – even a disputatious one – delivered by people who care deeply about books. And if I can keep delivering news and recommendations and surprises, they'll keep coming back.
Are you planning or writing a new novel? Please answer yes to this question.
MS: I'm already at work. Can't say much other than it is a complete 180 from Harry – a dark, sad book, no real humor, and probably first person. (Sorry, Dennis!)
DH: Last question Mark, the Three Guys are new to putting book discussions online. Can you tell how you think we did with Harry Revised?
MS: I haven't seen a better discussion of my book to date. You guys could serve as a model for a thorough, engaged, thoughtful book discussion. I can't wait to see what title you pick up next.