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Birds of a feather… blog together

The Design Automation Conference is just around the corner. DAC’s not usually a conference that commands much interest with regard to DFT… I recently wrote a blog post complaining of that fact, but never posted it (I like to let posts like that simmer for awhile, and many times, a re-reading of them [...]

New vs. Old Media in the land of EDA

I love this: JL Gray of CoolVerification blogged about a recent experience, taking part in a roundtable discussion to be published in DACeZine (a fairly new on-line publication put out by the organizers of DAC). It’s unclear whether the discussion, titled “Changing communications channels within the electronics industry”, was intended to touch on traditional [...]

Another one bites the dust?

Just saw this over at DeepChip:

Did you hear Mike Santarini of EDN just got laid off on Friday??
This means the 3 biggest independents (Gartner/EETimes/EDN) that

  used to cover EDA have pretty much killed off their EDA coverage.

  Cadence stock is crashing. Fewer young faces do chip design now.

  Are we [...]

Blogs at 10 – How close are you to the original purpose?

Check out this top 10 list (h/t Maggies Farm) from the acknowledged creator of the term ‘weblogs’, Jorn Barger – indispensible advice for new bloggers (which I’m sure applies to all bloggers). Interestingly enough, his concept of a blog lines up more with a site like del.icio.us than with any of the most popular [...]

We’re all connected – now let’s talk…

Some days I wonder where I’d be without the internet. I know that sounds pathetic, but hear me out. But for the shear amount of trash winding its way through the internet, there’s a also a massive wealth of information available on any given subject. Being an old-timer that started my career when Compuserve [...]