Bloggers Covering Electronic Design Automation

14 comments May 28th, 2008

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:

• Adventures in ASIC Digital Design
• All About EDA
• Amdahl’s Law
• Analog Insights
• ASIC-System On Chip (SoC)-VLSI Design
• CAD and VLSI
• Cadence Blogging Community (many bloggers)
• Chips and BS
• Coaching Excellence in IC Design Teams
• Cool Verification
• Darkling Wood
• Denali Memory Report
• Denali News
• Device Native
• DFT Digest
• Digital Electronics Blog
• Digital IC Design
• EDA Blog
• EDA Confidential 2.0
• EDA DesignLine
• EDA Geek
• EDA Thoughts
• EDA Weekly
• ESL Chat
• Five Computers
• FPGA Blog
• FPGA Central
• Gabe on EDA
• Gary Smith EDA
• harry… the ASIC guy
• Inside Protocol Verification
• IntelligentDV
• JB’s Circuit
• John’s Semi-Blog
• Kiran Bulusu’s Blog
• Leibson’s Law
• Magic Blue Smoke
• Mannerisms
• Metric Driven Verification
• Multicore Programming Blog
• NextGenLog
• Ninja ASIC Verification
• Oh, One More Thing
• On Cores
• Pallab’s Place
• PLD DesignLine
• Practical Chip design
• Pradeep Chakraborty’s Blog
• SCDSource
• Screaming Circuits
• Semifore News
• Shrinking Violence
• Signal Integrity Tips
• SKMurphy
• Specman Verification
• Srana Mitra on Strategy
• Standards Game
• State of the Media
• System Verification Blog
• Taken for Granted
• Tensilica News
• The Eyes Have It
• The Sandbox
• The Tao of ASICs
• The Wiretap
• Think Verification
• To USB or Not to USB
• Travelling on the Silicon Road
• Turning Into Jim
• Verification Blog
• Verification Guild
• Verification Martial Arts
• Verification Vertigo
• Verilab Blog
• View From the Top
• VLSI Home Page

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