EDA Bloggers 2009

July 11th, 2009 Sean Murphy

This is an update of my May 28, 2008 post “Bloggers Covering Design Automation” which I have subsequently updated in place approximately every two weeks for the last 13 months. The list was originally about 60 and has grown since then. At the time I started tracking blogs, neither Cadence nor Mentor had started their blogging communities. On July 22, 2008 I added the Cadence blogging community to the list and blogged about “What Happens When 70 EDA Blogs Become 500 in 2011.“There have been enough posts by individual bloggers in these community that it makes sense to break them out.

If you are an EDA blogger there is also an edabloggers Yahoo Group you can sign up for if you want to be notified of events and other developments, it’s been used in the last year to arrange the Bloggers’ BoF at ICCAD. There are a number of activities at DAC for bloggers, many are related to the Synopsys Conversation Central.

Some notes on how this list is organized:

  • An alphabetical list was somewhat useful at 60, it’s not very useful now and will be useless at 500, which is where I think we will be in another two years. I am open to suggestions and offers to collaborate.
  • For bloggers using their name (e.g. members of Cadence Blogging Community) I alphabetize by last name (which is at variance with their practice of alphabetizing by first name but generally accepted almost everywhere else). I have also gone back and alphabetized blogs that are a person’s name by last name as well to be consistent
  • For blogs beginning with “The” I sort by next word
  • I will update this entry in place at leas through the end of the year
  • I will leave a blog on the list for up to a year after the last post if there is good content in the archives.

I have not included about half a dozen blogs are are simply press release aggregators. Five companies have blogging communities now: Cadence, Mathworks, Mentor, Synopsys, and Verilab. I have identified bloggers who are a member of each.

  1. David Abercrombie (Mentor Community Blogger)
  2. Absolute Power (Synopsys Blogging Community)
  3. Achilles Test
  4. Adventures in ASIC Digital Design
  5. All About EDA
  6. Tom Anderson (Cadence Community Blogger)
  7. Amdahl’s Law
  8. Anablog
  9. Analog Insights (Synopsys Blogging Community)
  10. Analog Rails News
  11. Jason Andrews (Cadence Community Blogger)
  12. ASIC Digital Arithmetic
  13. ASIC-System On Chip (SoC)-VLSI Design
  14. Ran Avinun  (Cadence Community Blogger)
  15. Nigel Bleasdale (Cadence Community Blogger)
  16. Thomas Bollaert (Mentor Community Blogger)
  17. Robin Bornoff (Mentor Community Blogger)
  18. Dave Brady (Mentor Community Blogger)
  19. Matthew Bromley (Cadence Community Blogger)
  20. Steven Brown (Cadence Community Blogger)
  21. Bugs Are Easy
  22. Kiran Bulusu’s Blog
  23. CAD and VLSI
  24. Steven Carlson (Cadence Community Blogger)
  25. Michael Carrell (Cadence Community Blogger)
  26. Manoj Chacko (Cadence Community Blogger)
  27. Kenneth Chang (Cadence Community Blogger)
  28. Chip101
  29. Chips and BS
  30. Chipworks Blog
  31. Karen Chow (Mentor Community Blogger)
  32. Nora Chu (Cadence Community Blogger)
  33. Christopher Clee (Cadence Community Blogger)
  34. Coaching Excellence in IC Design Teams
  35. Cool Verification (Verilab Community Blog)
  36. Kelly Cordell-Morris (Mentor Community Blogger)
  37. Thomas Costas (Cadence Community Blogger)
  38. Oliver Coudert’s Blog
  39. CriticalBlue’s Common Thread
  40. DAC Fan Club
  41. Abhishek Datta (Cadence Community Blogger)
  42. Joe Davis (Mentor Community Blogger)
  43. Amit Dua (Cadence Community Blogger)
  44. Denali Memory Report
  45. Denali News
  46. Rahul Deokar (Cadence Community Blogger)
  47. David Desharnais (Cadence Community Blogger)
  48. Device Native
  49. DFT Digest
  50. Digital Electronics Blog
  51. Digital IC Design
  52. Dominion of Design
  53. Doug’s MATLAB Video Tutorials (Mathworks Community Blogger)
  54. DVClub Verification Blog
  55. Robert Dwyer (Cadence Community Blogger)
  56. EDA Blog
  57. EDA Confidential 2.0
  58. EDA DesignLine
  59. EDA Geek
  60. EDA Graffiti (see also Green Folder)
  61. EDA Tools on Fedora
  62. EDA Thoughts
  63. EDA Weekly
  64. Ed Sperling
  65. Electronic System Virtualization
  66. Eric Bogatin
  67. Jack Erickson (Cadence Community Blogger)
  68. ESL Edge
  69. The Eyes Have It (Synopsys Blogging Community)
  70. Fahrvergnügen (Synopsys Blogging Community)
  71. Simon Favre (Mentor Community Blogger)
  72. Keith Felton (Cadence Community Blogger)
  73. John Ferguson (Mentor Community Blogger)
  74. Five Computers (Verilab Community Blog)
  75. FPGA and DSP from Scratch
  76. FPGA and Structured ASIC Journal
  77. FPGA Blog
  78. FPGA Central
  79. FPGA Gurus
  80. FPGA Simulation
  81. FPGA World (in particular forums)
  82. George Frazier (Cadence Community Blogger)
  83. Jeffrey Flieder (Cadence Community Blogger)
  84. Future of Design (Synopsys Blogging Community)
  85. Gabe on EDA
  86. Dan Gardner (Mentor Community Blogger)
  87. Gary Smith EDA
  88. Ed Goldman (Mentor Community Blogger)
  89. Brad Griffin (Cadence Community Blogger)
  90. Gerald “Jerry” Grzenia Cadence Community Blogger)
  91. Hany El Hak (Cadence Community Blogger)
  92. Diego Hammerschlag (Cadence Community Blogger)
  93. Neil Hand (Cadence Community Blogger)
  94. Harnessing the Electron
  95. harry… the ASIC guy
  96. Bob Hilker (Cadence Community Blogger)
  97. Matthew Hogan (Mentor Community Blogger)
  98. Happy Holden (Mentor Community Blogger)
  99. Chi-Ping Hsu (Cadence Community Blogger)
  100. Joseph Hupcey III (Cadence Community Blogger)
  101. Industry Insights (Richard Goering / Cadence Community Blogger)
  102. IC Design and Verification Journal
  103. IDesignSpec
  104. Inside Protocol Verification
  105. IntelligentDV
  106. John Isaac (Mentor Community Blogger)
  107. Hiroshi Ishikawa (Cadence Community Blogger)
  108. Michael Jacobs (Cadence Community Blogger)
  109. Samir Jafferali (Cadence Community Blogger)
  110. JB’s Circuit
  111. John’s Semi-Blog
  112. Paul Johnston (Mentor Community Blogger)
  113. JTAG
  114. Sutirtha Kabir (Cadence Community Blogger)
  115. Michael Kelly (Cadence Community Blogger)
  116. Ken and Mike on the MATLAB Desktop (Mathworks Community Blogger)
  117. Neyaz Khan (Cadence Community Blogger)
  118. Koby’s Kaos
  119. Trisha Kristof (Cadence Community Blogger)
  120. Don Kurelich (Mentor Community Blogger)
  121. Leibson’s Law
  122. Bambuda Leung (Cadence Community Blogger)
  123. Steven Lewis (Cadence Community Blogger)
  124. Listening Post (Synopsys Blogging Community)
  125. Loren on the Art of MATLAB (Mathworks Community Blogger)
  126. Wilbur Luo (Cadence Community Blogger)
  127. Magic Blue Smoke (Synopsys Blogging Community)
  128. Edward Malloy (Cadence Community Blogger)
  129. Mannerisms
  130. Boris Marovic (Mentor Community Blogger)
  131. Jim Martens (Mentor Community Blogger)
  132. Peter McCrorie (Cadence Community Blogger)
  133. John McGeHee’s Blog
  134. Michael McNamara (Cadence Community Blogger)
  135. Soheil Modirzadeh (Cadence Community Blogger)
  136. Thomas Moore (Cadence Community Blogger)
  137. Nadav’s Tech Adventures (see also C-to-Verilog )
  138. Arvind Narayanan (Mentor Community Blogger)
  139. Daniel Nenni’s Blog
  140. David Neilson (Cadence Community Blogger)
  141. NextGenLog
  142. Ninja ASIC Verification
  143. Numetrics Insights
  144. Oasys Blog
  145. Oh, One More Thing (Verilab Community Blog)
  146. On Cores
  147. On Verification: a Software to Silicon Verification Blog (Synopsys Blogging Community)
  148. Open Electrons
  149. Richard Owen (Cadence Community Blogger)
  150. Pallab’s Place
  151. John Parry (Mentor Community Blogger)
  152. Will Partain Work Blog (Verilab Community Blog)
  153. Bassilios Petrakis (Cadence Community Blogger)
  154. Charles Pfeil (Mentor Community Blogger)
  155. Brad Pierce’s Blog (EDA Category)
  156. John Pierce (Cadence Community Blogger)
  157. PLD DesignLine
  158. Practical Chip design
  159. Pradeep Chakraborty’s Blog
  160. Power to the Masses
  161. Matthew Rardon (Cadence Community Blogger)
  162. Reconfigurable Computing
  163. Reconfigurable, Reconshmigurable (see also Impulse Accelerated Technology)
  164. Register Bits
  165. RocketBlog
  166. John “Mickey” Rodriguez (Cadence Community Blogger)
  167. Sharon Rosenberg (Cadence Community Blogger)
  168. Susan Runowicz-Smith (Cadence Community Blogger)
  169. The Sandbox
  170. Michael Sanie
  171. Sanjay Srivastava’s Conversation on Innovation
  172. Robin Sarma (Cadence Community Blogger)
  173. Nazita Saye (Mentor Community Blogger)
  174. Scalable Atomicity
  175. SCDSource
  176. Screaming Circuits
  177. Seth on Simulink (Mathworks Community Blogger)
  178. Arthur Schaldenbrand (Cadence Community Blogger)
  179. Hemant Shah (Cadence Community Blogger)
  180. Adam Sherer (Cadence Community Blogger)
  181. Shrinking Violence
  182. Sigasi’s Blog
  183. Signal Integrity Tips
  184. SKMurphy
  185. The Solar Cell Corner (Synopsys Blogging Community)
  186. Sonics Blog
  187. Specman Verification
  188. Deana Spencer (Cadence Community Blogger)
  189. Sramana Mitra on Strategy
  190. Standards Game (Synopsys Blogging Community)
  191. State of EDA
  192. State of the Media
  193. Michael Stellfox (Cadence Community Blogger)
  194. Steve on Image Processing (Mathworks Community Blogger)
  195. Kari Summers (Cadence Community Blogger)
  196. Esteban Svoboda (Cadence Community Blogger)
  197. System Verification Blog
  198. Taken for Granted
  199. Wei Tan (Cadence Community Blogger)
  200. The Tao of ASICs
  201. Techdoer Times
  202. Team ESL (Cadence Community Blog)
  203. Team FED (Cadence Community Blog)
  204. Team genIES (Cadence Community Blog)
  205. Team Specman (Cadence Community Blog)
  206. Tensilica News
  207. Testbench.in
  208. Helene Thibieroz (Cadence Community Blogger)
  209. Think Verification
  210. Craig Thompson (Cadence Community Blogger)
  211. Thursday’s Child
  212. To USB or Not to USB (Synopsys Blogging Community)
  213. Tommy’s Veriblog (Verilab Community Blogger)
  214. Travelling on the Silicon Road
  215. Trusster
  216. Turning Into Jim
  217. Verification Blog
  218. Verification Guild
  219. Verification is No Simulation
  220. Verification Martial Arts (Synopsys Blogging Community)
  221. Verification Vertigo
  222. Verilab Blog
  223. View From the Top (Synopsys Blogging Community)
  224. VC Corner
  225. VLSI Home Page
  226. Colin Walls (Mentor Community Blogger)
  227. Jason Ware (Cadence Community Blogger)
  228. What’s PR Got To Do With It?
  229. Stacy Whiteman (Cadence Community Blogger)
  230. Alan Whittaker  (Cadence Community Blogger)
  231. David Wiens (Mentor Community Blogger)
  232. John Wilkosz (Cadence Community Blogger)
  233. Tawna Wilsey (Cadence Community Blogger)
  234. John Wilson (Mentor Community Blogger)
  235. The Wiretap
  236. Wizards of Electromagnetism
  237. The World is Analog
  238. The Xuropean

If I have overlooked your blog or an EDA related blog that you like, please let me know. I can appreciate that this format is no longer particularly useful (not that it was really useful for only 60 blogs). I am working on some other ways to organize this information but I am also open to suggestions and offers of collaboration.

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  • 1. SKMurphy » A Conver&hellip  |  July 13th, 2009 at 1:21 am

    [...] So that’s an anecdote, one data point, I am not sure what it looks like in another two to four years. In the last year we’ve transitioned from about 60 bloggers writing on EDA-related topics to what looks like perhaps 200. A year ago I thought we would get to 500 in three years (2011). Now that may be there next year if this trend continues. [...]

  • 2. SKMurphy » Bloggers&hellip  |  July 13th, 2009 at 1:23 am

    [...] Note: this list has been updated to more than 200 for 2009 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. [...]

  • 3. JL Gray  |  July 13th, 2009 at 9:02 am

    Sean,

    FYI… Cool Verification is not a “Verilab Community Blog”. It’s my personal blog.

    Thanks,

    JL

  • 4. Daniel Payne  |  July 13th, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    SK,
    Nice list.
    How about organizing this list by Company and Category?

  • 5. Lou Covey  |  July 13th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    Murph, FYI, you can clean off a few of these. Sandbox stopped with Ann Mutschler left EDN last year. Warren Savage hasn’t posted since January 29.

  • 6. John Blyler  |  July 14th, 2009 at 8:42 am

    HI Sean. Quite a list. You might want to add two prominent EDA VC bloggers – Jim Hogan and Peter L. Levin – who blog under our VC Corner area: http://chipdesignmag.com/sld/ Erach has expressed interest in blogger there, as well.

  • 7. Dallas McNally  |  July 16th, 2009 at 3:55 am

    Hi Sean,

    Thanks for the hard work!

    I have created an OPML file ( http://www.mcnally.id.au/skmurphy_eda_bloggers_2009.xml )from this list so that others can just import it in to a news aggregator e.g. Google Reader.

    The following had broken feeds (all Cadence community links): 26, 31, 45, 90, 101, 109, 111, 116, 126, 165, 191, 203, 222

    I contacted Cadence and these now appear to be working.
    These have no RSS: 54, 76, 82, 96, 138. 168, 211, 228

    404s: 98

    Cheers,

    Dallas

    Thanks, the links w/o feeds point to otherwise useful reference sites that do not have a feed, except that The Wiretap does not seem to be maintained. New entries are added but not added to this main index. Warning to future readers as other blogs are added these numbers may fall out of sync. 98 – Inside Protocol Verification has been removed from the Synopsys site, for the moment I have crossed it out. I will contact the Cadence folks about their feeds. Thanks for your help./SeanM

  • 8. Dallas McNally  |  July 16th, 2009 at 4:39 am

    Hi Sean, link 231 points to incorrect URL… Cheers, Dallas

    Fixed Xuropean link, thanks. /SeanM

  • 9. Blogging from SFO: Beware&hellip  |  July 29th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

    [...] There are 233 semiconductor design enablement bloggers at last count, who have an audience as big or bigger than mine. That’s hundreds of thousands of people who will read your message on a regular basis. It isn’t easy coming up with frequent blogs so whatever you can do to help a blogger say something clever, get blog views, and most importantly help the blogger BRAND their product, that is what you need to do. I don’t see bloggers bashing companies that reach out to them, worst case they will ignore you. So this is how I would handle independent bloggers: treat them seriously, treat them with respect, build personal relationships, it is the most affordable branding experience available today. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)FTC cracking down on tricky Internet advertising including bloggersGetting Bloggers to Pay Heed to a Floor MopWhy Huffington Post is Obama’s new best friend [...]

  • 10. SKMurphy » Impressi&hellip  |  August 10th, 2009 at 11:37 pm

    [...] In preparation for the Blogging Birds of a Feather at last year’s DAC, we counted 60 blogs, which surprised a number of people. After the conference I predicted that we would see 500 by 2011. Which seemed really preposterous to some folks who contacted me. This July we are already at about 220 and on track for 500 by 2011. [...]

  • 11. SKMurphy » Growing &hellip  |  October 18th, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    [...] Mathworks has been attending DAC for many years, although it is not a member of EDAC–on balance DAC attendance may be a better indicator of industry participation than EDAC membership–and the Matlab language was also a supported input by AccelChip (now part of Xilinx) and Agility (now part of Mentor, although the tools for going from Matlab to C were sold to the Mathworks).  These were some of the reasons that I had included the Mathworks blogs in my July 11 “EDA Bloggers 2009” list. [...]

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