EDA Bloggers 2009
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 that 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.
- David Abercrombie (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Absolute Power (Synopsys Blogging Community)
- Achilles Test
- Adventures in ASIC Digital Design
- All About EDA
- Tom Anderson (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Amdahl’s Law
- Anablog
- Analog Insights (Synopsys Blogging Community)
- Analog Rails News
- Jason Andrews (Cadence Community Blogger)
- ASIC Digital Arithmetic
- ASIC-System On Chip (SoC)-VLSI Design
- Ran Avinun (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Nigel Bleasdale (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Thomas Bollaert (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Robin Bornoff (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Dave Brady (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Matthew Bromley (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Steven Brown (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Bugs Are Easy
- Kiran Bulusu’s Blog
- CAD and VLSI
- Steven Carlson (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Michael Carrell (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Manoj Chacko (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Kenneth Chang (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Chip101
- Chips and BS
- Chipworks Blog
- Karen Chow (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Nora Chu (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Christopher Clee (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Coaching Excellence in IC Design Teams
- Cool Verification (Verilab Community Blog)
- Kelly Cordell-Morris (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Thomas Costas (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Oliver Coudert’s Blog
- CriticalBlue’s Common Thread
- CynCity (Forte Design)
- DAC Fan Club
- Abhishek Datta (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Joe Davis (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Amit Dua (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Denali Memory Report
- Denali News
- Rahul Deokar (Cadence Community Blogger)
- David Desharnais (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Device Native
- DFT Digest
- Digital Electronics Blog
- Digital IC Design
- Dominion of Design
- Doug’s MATLAB Video Tutorials (Mathworks Community Blogger)
- DVClub Verification Blog
- Robert Dwyer (Cadence Community Blogger)
- EDA Blog
- EDA Confidential 2.0
- EDA DesignLine
- EDA Geek
- EDA Graffiti (see also Green Folder)
- EDA Tools on Fedora
- EDA Thoughts
- EDA Weekly
- Ed Sperling
- Electronic System Virtualization
- Eric Bogatin
- Jack Erickson (Cadence Community Blogger)
- ESL Edge
- The Eyes Have It (Synopsys Blogging Community)
- Fahrvergnügen (Synopsys Blogging Community)
- Simon Favre (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Keith Felton (Cadence Community Blogger)
- John Ferguson (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Five Computers (Verilab Community Blog)
- FPGA and DSP from Scratch
- FPGA and Structured ASIC Journal
- FPGA Blog
- FPGA Central
- FPGA Gurus
- FPGA Simulation
- FPGA World (in particular forums)
- George Frazier (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Jeffrey Flieder (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Future of Design (Synopsys Blogging Community)
- Gabe on EDA
- Dan Gardner (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Gary Smith EDA
- Ed Goldman (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Brad Griffin (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Gerald “Jerry” Grzenia Cadence Community Blogger)
- Hany El Hak (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Diego Hammerschlag (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Neil Hand (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Harnessing the Electron
- harry… the ASIC guy
- Bob Hilker (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Matthew Hogan (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Happy Holden (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Chi-Ping Hsu (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Joseph Hupcey III (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Industry Insights (Richard Goering / Cadence Community Blogger)
- IC Design and Verification Journal
- IDesignSpec
- Inside Protocol Verification
- IntelligentDV
- John Isaac (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Hiroshi Ishikawa (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Michael Jacobs (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Samir Jafferali (Cadence Community Blogger)
- JB’s Circuit
- John’s Semi-Blog
- Paul Johnston (Mentor Community Blogger)
- JTAG
- Sutirtha Kabir (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Michael Kelly (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Ken and Mike on the MATLAB Desktop (Mathworks Community Blogger)
- Neyaz Khan (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Koby’s Kaos
- Trisha Kristof (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Don Kurelich (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Leibson’s Law
- Bambuda Leung (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Steven Lewis (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Listening Post (Synopsys Blogging Community)
- Loren on the Art of MATLAB (Mathworks Community Blogger)
- Wilbur Luo (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Magic Blue Smoke (Synopsys Blogging Community)
- Edward Malloy (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Mannerisms
- Boris Marovic (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Jim Martens (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Peter McCrorie (Cadence Community Blogger)
- John McGeHee’s Blog
- Michael McNamara (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Soheil Modirzadeh (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Thomas Moore (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Nadav’s Tech Adventures (see also C-to-Verilog )
- Arvind Narayanan (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Daniel Nenni’s Blog
- David Neilson (Cadence Community Blogger)
- NextGenLog
- Ninja ASIC Verification
- Numetrics Insights
- Oasys Blog
- Oh, One More Thing (Verilab Community Blog)
- On Cores
- On Verification: a Software to Silicon Verification Blog (Synopsys Blogging Community)
- Open Electrons
- Richard Owen (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Pallab’s Place
- John Parry (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Will Partain Work Blog (Verilab Community Blog)
- Bassilios Petrakis (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Charles Pfeil (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Brad Pierce’s Blog (EDA Category)
- John Pierce (Cadence Community Blogger)
- PLD DesignLine
- Practical Chip design
- Pradeep Chakraborty’s Blog
- Power to the Masses
- Matthew Rardon (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Reconfigurable Computing
- Reconfigurable, Reconshmigurable (see also Impulse Accelerated Technology)
- RocketBlog
- John “Mickey” Rodriguez (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Sharon Rosenberg (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Susan Runowicz-Smith (Cadence Community Blogger)
- The Sandbox
- Michael Sanie
- Sanjay Srivastava’s Conversation on Innovation
- Robin Sarma (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Nazita Saye (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Scalable Atomicity
- SCDSource
- Screaming Circuits
- Seth on Simulink (Mathworks Community Blogger)
- Arthur Schaldenbrand (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Hemant Shah (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Adam Sherer (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Shrinking Violence
- Sigasi’s Blog
- Signal Integrity Tips
- SKMurphy
- The Solar Cell Corner (Synopsys Blogging Community)
- Sonics Blog
- Specman Verification
- Deana Spencer (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Sramana Mitra on Strategy
- Standards Game (Synopsys Blogging Community)
- State of EDA
- State of the Media
- Michael Stellfox (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Steve on Image Processing (Mathworks Community Blogger)
- Kari Summers (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Esteban Svoboda (Cadence Community Blogger)
- System Verification Blog
- Taken for Granted
- Wei Tan (Cadence Community Blogger)
- The Tao of ASICs
- Techdoer Times
- Team ESL (Cadence Community Blog)
- Team FED (Cadence Community Blog)
- Team genIES (Cadence Community Blog)
- Team Specman (Cadence Community Blog)
- Tensilica News
- Testbench.in
- Helene Thibieroz (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Think Verification
- Craig Thompson (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Thursday’s Child
- To USB or Not to USB (Synopsys Blogging Community)
- Tommy’s Veriblog (Verilab Community Blogger)
- Travelling on the Silicon Road
- Trusster
- Turning Into Jim
- Verification Blog
- Verification Guild
- Verification is No Simulation
- Verification Martial Arts (Synopsys Blogging Community)
- Verification Vertigo
- Verilab Blog
- View From the Top (Synopsys Blogging Community)
- VC Corner
- VLSI Home Page
- Colin Walls (Mentor Community Blogger)
- Jason Ware (Cadence Community Blogger)
- What’s PR Got To Do With It?
- Stacy Whiteman (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Alan Whittaker (Cadence Community Blogger)
- David Wiens (Mentor Community Blogger)
- John Wilkosz (Cadence Community Blogger)
- Tawna Wilsey (Cadence Community Blogger)
- John Wilson (Mentor Community Blogger)
- The Wiretap
- Wizards of Electromagnetism
- The World is Analog
- 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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Sean,
FYI… Cool Verification is not a “Verilab Community Blog”. It’s my personal blog.
Thanks,
JL
SK,
Nice list.
How about organizing this list by Company and Category?
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.
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.
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
Hi Sean, link 231 points to incorrect URL… Cheers, Dallas
Fixed Xuropean link, thanks. /SeanM
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