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Graham Bell
Graham is Sr. Director of Marketing at Real Intent. He has over 20 years experience in the design automation industry. Occasionally he writes blogs for the Dominion of Design. The views and opinions expressed in this blog are his alone and not those of his employer.

The Best of 2011 – EDA Weekly Magazine, Press Postings, and Careers Corner

January 6th, 2012 by Graham Bell

As 2012 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 2011 was an analysis of SpringSoft, written by Russ Henke.

	Author	Title	Date	Click-throughs
1	Russ Henke	Welcome SpringSoft!	May 2	3,061
2	Russ Henke	Back to the Future	July 25	2,823
3	Russ Henke	A Tektronix Gain	May 30	2,238
4	Graham Bell	The Best of 2010 – EDA Weekly Magazine, Press Postings, and Careers Corner	Jan. 4	2,184
5	Russ Henke	Real Intent – Part II	Feb. 7	2,167

EDACafe has also been tracking Press Coverage throughout the year. The leading articles were a mix of customer wins, acquisition announcements and business reports, with Tanner EDA topping the list. Here are the most newsworthy corporate stories for 2011:

	Title	Date	Click-throughs
1	Tanner EDA Lands Experienced EDA Account Manager for Growing Customer Base	June 21	2,139
2	Cadence Acquires Azuro	July 12	1,302
3	Synopsys to Acquire Magma Design Automation	Nov. 30	1,295
4	Icahn Issues Open Letter to Shareholders of Mentor Graphics	April 21	1,277
5	ANSYS, Inc. Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Apache Design Solutions	June 30	1,259
6	Freescale Licenses Synopsys’ DesignWare IP Portfolio to Accelerate SoC Designs	Mar. 23	1,230
7	ICCAD 2011 Call for Papers: Deadline: Monday, April 18	Mar. 14	1,033
8	Mentor Graphics Issues Open Letter to Shareholders	April 25	899
9	Design & Reuse Announces 20th Anniversary Program for IP-SOC; December 7-8, 2011, World Trade Center, Grenoble, France	Nov. 15	899
10	48th Design Automation Conference: Double Digit Increase in Attendance	June 9	882

In the IC News category the following were the top 5 stories:

	Title	Date	Click-throughs
1	Texas Instruments introduces industry’s smallest wireless power receiver chip	April 18	965
2	Atego launches Aonix Perc Ultra 6	May 3	730
3	National Semiconductor Adds Three High Output Voltage Products to SIMPLE SWITCHER Power Module Family	Jan. 19	614
4	STMicroelectronics Unveils Next-Generation iNEMO Engine	March 24	613
5	New SerDes from Analog Bits Reduces Footprint, Power & Cost: Saves up to 700 milliwatts on Flat Panel Display SOCs	March 18	609

Careers Cafe authored by Mark Gilbert was also a regular feature. The following article published on Feb. 17, 2011, received an amazing 6,647 click-throughs:

So what has changed in EDA hiring?… Is my wild prediction coming true?… How might Mentor play …

The staff of Internet Business Systems and EDACafe.com thank you for your readership and wish you a prosperous 2012!

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