As 2011 begins, it is time to review the stories and weekly articles that were picked by you, the EDACafe.com audience, as the most interesting and newsworthy. We have grouped them by the highest number of click-throughs or readers.
The EDA Weekly Magazine covered many different technology and business topics. The top Magazine article of 2010 was a survey article of the latest developments in digital timing analysis that featured Magma's Tekton and others, written by Gabe Moretti.
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Author |
Title |
Date |
Click-throughs |
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1 |
Gabe Moretti |
Static Timing Analysis Is Not Staying Static |
15-Mar-10 |
4,612 |
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2 |
Russ Henke |
Agilent EEsof EDA – Part I |
01-Feb-10 |
3,775 |
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3 |
Russ Henke |
All About EVE |
26-Apr-10 |
3,692 |
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4 |
Russ Henke |
Agilent EEsof EDA – Part II |
29-Mar-10 |
3,286 |
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5 |
Gabe Moretti |
An Oasys Grows in the EDA Landscape |
18-Jan-10 |
3,183 |
EDACafe has also been tracking Press Coverage throughout the year. The leading articles were a mix of customer wins, acquisition announcements and fiscal reports, with Breker Verification Systems topping the list. Here are the most newsworthy corporate stories for 2010:
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Title |
Date |
Click-throughs |
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1 |
Breker Verification Systems’ Trek Selected by STMicroelectronics for Functional Verification Reuse |
05-Feb-10 |
1,700 |
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2 |
Power Architecture(R) Presentations and Demonstrations to Be a High Focus at the DesignCon Conference |
12-Jan-10 |
1,368 |
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3 |
Synopsys to Acquire CoWare, Inc. |
08-Feb-10 |
1,340 |
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4 |
Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal First Quarter Results |
28-May-10 |
1,194 |
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5 |
Vennsa Picks Verific Design Automation’s de facto Front End Software |
17-Feb-10 |
1,110 |
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6 |
Cadence Q4 and FY2009 Earnings beat the street |
03-Feb-10 |
1,002 |
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7 |
Arasan Joins Atrenta’s SpyLinks™ Partner Program |
10-Feb-10 |
986 |
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8 |
NVIDIA Extends Breker Verification Deployment to Next Generation GPU |
01-Jun-10 |
919 |
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9 |
Synopsys to Acquire Virage Logic Corporation |
10-Jun-10 |
901 |
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10 |
Cadence to Acquire Denali |
13-May-10 |
877 |
In the IC News category the following were the top 5 stories:
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Title |
Date |
Click-throughs |
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1 |
Freescale Accelerates Design Innovation with 90 Nanometer ColdFire+ Mixed-Signal Microcontroller Solutions |
08-Jun-10 |
1,230 |
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2 |
"IP-SOC'2010 Grenoble Conference & Exhibition -Call for Papers" |
27-Apr-10 |
1,179 |
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3 |
Intel Unveils All New 2010 Intel® Core™ Processor Family |
07-Apr-10 |
1,120 |
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4 |
STMicroelectronics Reports 2009 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Financial Results |
26-Jan-10 |
964 |
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5 |
Intel Fourth-Quarter Net Income $2.3 Billion, Up 875% |
14-Jan-10 |
917 |
Careers Cafe authored by Mark Gilbert was also a regular feature. The following article published on Feb. 19, 2010, received 2,227 click-throughs:
A Must Read for Companies and Candidates…”My thoughts on BOTH sides of INTERVIEWING”… DVCON, the HOT LITTLE Show!
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-- Graham Bell, EDACafe.com Contributing Editor.