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 2009 comes to a close, 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 2009 was an interview of Jack Harding, CEO of eSilicon, an ASIC design services company, written by Jack Horgan.

	Author	Title	Date	Click-throughs
1	Jack Horgan	The Future of EDA and the Semiconductor Industry, One Man’s View	2-Mar-09	9,909
2	Jack Horgan	How to Compete Against the Big Three	30-Mar-09	6,771
3	Peggy Aycinena	The Aart of Analogy Revisited	23-Mar-09	5,641
4	Peggy Aycinena	Popcorn at DAC, Azuro’s CTS, Lotsa news, Cooley’s War	25-May-09	5,452
5	Peggy Aycinena	Bryant the Beer Guy & Your Plans for DAC	22-Jun-09	5,390

 

EDACafe has also been tracking Press Coverage throughout the year.   Most of the leading articles were fiscal reports by the leading EDA companies, with Mentor Graphics topping the list.  Agilent, Altium, Apache were in the mix with products releases.   Here are the most newsworthy stories for 2009:

	Title	Date	Click-throughs
1	Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal Fourth Quarter Results	26-Feb-09	2,173
2	Agilent Technologies to Demonstrate Industry-First PCI Express® Jammer, Jitter Tolerance Test for Clock Devices, Million-Bit-Per-Minute Channel Simulator at DesignCon 2009	02-Feb-09	2,051
3	Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal First Quarter Results	29-May-09	1,649
4	Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal Second Quarter Results	20-Aug-09	1,491
5	ANSYS Reports Revenue and Earnings Growth for Fourth Quarter and 2008 Annual Results and Updates Outlook	26-Feb-09	1,350
6	Apache Design Solutions Introduces RedHawk-NX, the Next Generation Full-chip Dynamic Power Integrity Solution	05-Jan-09	1,328
7	Altium: What makes You So Special?	27-Apr-09	1,281
8	Synopsys Posts Strong Financial Results for First Quarter Fiscal Year 2009; Earnings Up 13%, Revenue Up 7.7%	18-Feb-09	1,280
9	Cadence Reports Q1 2009 Financial Results	29-Apr-09	1,213
10	Cadence Reports Q4 2008 Financial Results	04-Feb-09	1,124

 The staff of Internet Business Systems and EDACafe.com thank you for your readership and wish you an excellent holiday season and a prosperous 2010.


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-- Graham Bell, EDACafe.com Contributing Editor.

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