Bloggers Covering Electronic Design Automation

16 comments May 28th, 2008

Note: this list updated to more than 200 at “EDA Bloggers 2009“

Ever since EE Times laid off Richard Goering (and seemed like it was no longer committed to covering EDA) I have been meaning to map the EDA Blogosphere. When JL Gray suggested a Blogging Birds of a Feather at DAC (scheduled for Wednesday June 11 6pm in Room 201B in the Anaheim Convention Center) I volunteered to help him and Harry Gries organize it, along with David Lin and John Ford. Final details are being worked out but it looks like Steve Leibson, Grant Martin, and George Harper will also be giving 3 minute lightning talks on different aspects of blogging.

There is also an edabloggers Yahoo Group you can sign up for if you want to be notified of updates, if this one goes well we may facilitate others at appropriate EDA-related conferences.

So this event was the spur I needed to uncover about sixty bloggers covering some aspect of electronic design automation:

1. Achilles Test
2. Adventures in ASIC Digital Design
3. All About EDA
4. Amdahl’s Law
5. Anablog
6. Analog Insights
7. ASIC Digital Arithmetic
8. ASIC-System On Chip (SoC)-VLSI Design
9. Brad Pierce’s Blog (EDA Category)
10. Bugs Are Easy
11. CAD and VLSI
12. Cadence Blogging Community (many bloggers)
13. Chips and BS
14. Coaching Excellence in IC Design Teams
15. Cool Verification
16. CriticalBlue’s Common Thread
17. Daniel Nenni’s Blog
18. Darkling Wood
19. Denali Memory Report
20. Denali News
21. Device Native
22. DFT Digest
23. Digital Electronics Blog
24. Digital IC Design
25. EDA Blog
26. EDA Confidential 2.0
27. EDA DesignLine
28. EDA Geek
29. EDA Graffiti (see also Green Folder)
30. EDA Tools on Fedora
31. EDA Thoughts
32. EDA Weekly
33. Ed Sperling
34. Eric Bogatin
35. ESL Chat
36. ESL Edge
37. The Eyes Have It
38. Five Computers
39. FPGA and DSP from Scratch
40. FPGA and Structured ASIC Journal
41. FPGA Blog
42. FPGA Central
43. FPGA Simulation
44. FPGA World (in particular forums)
45. Gabe on EDA
46. Gary Smith EDA
47. harry… the ASIC guy
48. Industry Insights (Richard Goering)
49. IC Design and Verification Journal
50. Inside Protocol Verification
51. IntelligentDV
52. JB’s Circuit
53. John’s Semi-Blog
54. JTAG
55. Kiran Bulusu’s Blog
56. Koby’s Kaos
57. Leibson’s Law
58. Magic Blue Smoke
59. Mannerisms
60. Michael Sanie
61. Multicore Programming Blog
62. Nadav’s Tech Adventures (see also C-to-Verilog )
63. NextGenLog
64. Ninja ASIC Verification
65. Oh, One More Thing
66. On Cores
67. On Verification: a Software to Silicon Verification Blog
68. Pallab’s Place
69. PLD DesignLine
70. Practical Chip design
71. Pradeep Chakraborty’s Blog
72. Reconfigurable Computing
73. Reconfigurable, Reconshmigurable (see also Impulse Accelerated Technology)
74. Register Bits
75. The Sandbox
76. Scalable Atomicity
77. SCDSource
78. Screaming Circuits
79. Shrinking Violence
80. Signal Integrity Tips
81. SKMurphy
82. Specman Verification
83. Sramana Mitra on Strategy
84. Standards Game
85. State of the Media
86. System Verification Blog
87. Taken for Granted
88. The Tao of ASICs
89. Techdoer Times
90. Tensilica News
91. Testbench.in
92. Think Verification
93. To USB or Not to USB
94. Travelling on the Silicon Road
95. Trusster
96. Turning Into Jim
97. Verification Blog
98. Verification Guild
99. Verification Martial Arts
100. Verification Vertigo
101. Verilab Blog
102. View From the Top
103. VLSI Home Page
104. The Wiretap
105. Wizards of Microwave
106. The World is Analog
107. The Xuropean

What was surprising to me was how few companies had blogs, but I suspect that will change in EDA as it already has for Software as a Service and Internet/Web companies. If your blog is not on this list (or it’s on the list and you would like it taken off) please contact me. Bloggers and those interested in learning more about blogging are welcome at the DAC Blogging Birds of a Feather Wed June 11 6pm in Room 201B. Other posts about the event:

• Bloggers Flock to DAC Birds-of-a-Feather Session
• Birds of a Feather Blog Together
• EDA Bloggers Meet at DAC
• DAC Birds of a Feather Announcements Page

Update June 16: I continue to add to the list almost daily as overlooked bloggers E-mail me or leave comments. My plan is to keep this list updated here for at least another two or three months.

Update July 22: I added the Cadence blogging community to the list and blogged about “What Happens When 70 EDA Blogs Become 500 in 2011.”

Update Oct 13: We are planning another EDA Bloggers Birds of a Feather at ICCAD see “EDA Bloggers’ BoF at ICCAD 2008

Updated Feb-15-2009: changed to a numbered list, re-organized all of the “The …” blogs so that they were indexed by second word in title. Removed Metric Driven Verification since Blogger reports “Blog not found.” There are now more than 100 EDA related blogs.