The Best of 2010 – EDA Weekly Magazine, Press Postings, and

January 04, 2011

The Best of 2010 – EDA Weekly Magazine, Press Postings, and Careers Corner

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by Graham Bell - Contributing Editor
Posted anew every four weeks or so, the EDA WEEKLY delivers to its readers information concerning the latest happenings in the EDA industry, covering vendors, products, finances and new developments. Frequently, feature articles on selected public or private EDA companies are presented. Brought to you by EDACafe.com. If we miss a story or subject that you feel deserves to be included, or you just want to suggest a future topic, please contact us! Questions? Feedback? Click here. Thank you!

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.

	Author	Title	Date	Click-throughs
1	Gabe Moretti	Static Timing Analysis Is Not Staying Static	15-Mar-10	4,612
2	Russ Henke	Agilent EEsof EDA – Part I	01-Feb-10	3,775
3	Russ Henke	All About EVE	26-Apr-10	3,692
4	Russ Henke	Agilent EEsof EDA – Part II	29-Mar-10	3,286
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:

	Title	Date	Click-throughs
1	Breker Verification Systems’ Trek Selected by STMicroelectronics for Functional Verification Reuse	05-Feb-10	1,700
2	Power Architecture(R) Presentations and Demonstrations to Be a High Focus at the DesignCon Conference	12-Jan-10	1,368
3	Synopsys to Acquire CoWare, Inc.	08-Feb-10	1,340
4	Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal First Quarter Results	28-May-10	1,194
5	Vennsa Picks Verific Design Automation’s de facto Front End Software	17-Feb-10	1,110
6	Cadence Q4 and FY2009 Earnings beat the street	03-Feb-10	1,002
7	Arasan Joins Atrenta’s SpyLinks™ Partner Program	10-Feb-10	986
8	NVIDIA Extends Breker Verification Deployment to Next Generation GPU	01-Jun-10	919
9	Synopsys to Acquire Virage Logic Corporation	10-Jun-10	901
10	Cadence to Acquire Denali	13-May-10	877

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-- Graham Bell, EDACafe.com Contributing Editor.