( ESNUG 422 Item 7 ) -------------------------------------------- [02/19/04]
From: John Cooley <jcooley=user domain=zeroskew spot calm>
Subject: The DeepChip Viewer Stats Plus The Top 50 ESNUG Items For 2003
Throughout the year I get a smattering of phone calls from an odd mix of
people asking for this data. Sometimes it's advertisers; other times it's
EDA people; and many times it's one of the many Wall Street stock weasils
phoning for some secret inside scoop. Enjoy.
DeepChip.com
Dates: 1/1/2003 to 12/31/2003
Month Visits Pageviews
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January 21,181 54,807
February 19,584 45,716
March 22,943 55,843
April 24,363 54,976
May 33,182 103,366 <- SNUG'03 Trip Report published
June 25,535 76,879
July 26,458 67,353
August 24,466 65,685
September 25,354 77,820
October 31,050 92,712
November 22,452 54,194
December 20,853 56,846
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Total 297,421 806,197
Average 25,000 67,000
Note that the DAC'03 Trip Report was published in January of 2004, so its
effect isn't measured on these 2003 stats. Below are the 2003 calendar
year stats for the top level links on DeepChip.
Top level links on DeepChip Pageviews
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http://www.deepchip.com/posts/snug03.html 45,019
http://www.deepchip.com/search 41,897
http://www.deepchip.com/downloadpage.html 23,583
http://www.deepchip.com/edajumpzone.html 18,351
http://www.deepchip.com/dirtpage.fhtml 12,332
http://www.deepchip.com/photos.html 10,233
Excluding the "special" DeepChip links like the SNUG and DAC Trip Reports,
the standard bread & butter fare on DeepChip are the ESNUG Posts. Each
post is made up of individual "Items". Literally thousands of Items are
stored on the DeepChip ESNUG archive. Below are the top 50 individual
ESNUG Items (ranked by the number of pageviews) viewed by readers in the
1/1/2003 to 12/31/2003 time frame. The #1 topic received 7,234 pageviews;
the #50 topic received 3,672 pageviews.
It somewhat surprised me that non-Synopsys topics dominated the 2003 ESNUG
user interest. Mem controller discussion was the #1 topic. Cadence CeltIC
was #2, #21, #23, #42. Magma was #3, #5, #6, #50. It took until #4 for
a Synopsys issue to come up -- and that was on Synopsys porting to AMD's
Opteron vs. Intel Itanium. After that, a 4 year old SNUG'00 paper by Cliff
Cummings on non-blocking Verilog assignments took the #7 slot. PhysOpt/DC
doesn't show up until #10 and Apollo/Astro wasn't even mentioned until #35.
Out of the top 50 ESNUG Items of 2003, a surprizing 39 (78%) of them were
primarily non-Synopsys discussions.
The Top 50 ESNUG Items For 2003
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1. The Two Denali vs. DW Mem Controller Bake Offs (Parts I & II)
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0415-01.html
http://www.deepchip.com/posts/0418.html
2. User Benchmark Finds CeltIC Much More Accurate Than PrimeTime-SI
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0420-01.html
3. ( ESNUG 419 #9 ) 5 Users Report On The Magma Users Group Meeting
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0420-06.html
4. ( ESNUG 416 #3 ) AMD's Opteron & Intel's Influence Over Synopsys
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0416-03.html
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0417-10.html
5. Step-by-Step Using Magma BlastFusion With Mentor Calibre DRC/LVS
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0416-06.html
6. Had a Bad Magma Experience, How About Cadence or Monterey Instead?
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0419-01.html
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0420-02.html
7. Cliff's SNUG'00 1st Place Paper On Nonblocking Verilog Assignments
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0347-01.html
8. ( ESNUG 410 #10 ) Synopsys Caught Spreading Vera/NC-Sim Speed FUD
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0417-08.html
9. ( ESNUG 396 #1 ) A Boatload Of Letters On Sync vs. Async Resets
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0409-11.html
10. Users Concerned About DC/PhysOpt 2003.06-1 Poor Quality Of Results
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0416-08.html
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0417-01.html
11. The Top 15 Best Selling Kluwer Books At This Year's DAC Conference
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0414-06.html
12. Two Engineers Bark About The Free Forte On-Line SystemC Tutorial
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0414-08.html
13. The Top Ten Prentice Hall Best Selling Books At The 2003 DAC
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0416-01.html
14. Cadence Retribution & Users On The Diva, Dracula, Assura DRC Tools
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0414-11.html
15. User Sees Tenison Verilog-to-C VTOC Benchmarks 14x Over VCS 7.0
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0414-01.html
16. ( DAC 02 #21 ) Choosing Apache RedHawk Over VoltageStorm IR Drop
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0413-04.html
17. User Warns That Synopsys Vera VCS Support Is Complete Vaporware
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0419-03.html
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0421-08.html
18. Beaucoup Chip Designers Chime In On The FPGA vs. ASIC EDA Debate
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0413-05.html
19. User Website Offers Seven Free But Useful Homebrew ASIC Tools
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0406-04.html
20. ( ESNUG 420 #4 ) What Do Gate-Level Sims Buy You These Days?
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0421-01.html
21. How To Run Cadence CeltIC Xtalk In A Synopsys PrimeTime Setting
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0416-05.html
22. The News From Those Who've Done It; Evan's Pros & Cons of SystemC
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0414-07.html
23. Synopsys PrimeTime-SI vs. Cadence CeltIC + Standard PrimeTime
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0417-07.html
24. 8 Engineers Discussing 7 Types Of Adder Hardware Implementations
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0343-13.html
25. One User's First Impressions Of Nassda's Hanex From Its DAC Demo
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0417-11.html
26. Two Users Review Mentor's New Precision FPGA Tools vs. Synplicity
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0417-09.html
27. Dave's Special DC TCL Scripts That Fix Hold Times On Scan Cells
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0404-05.html
28. ( ESNUG 407 #13 ) Paul Says Power Rings Are An EDA Software Crutch
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0408-06.html
29. ( ESNUG 393 #1 ) Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Resets In Designs
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0396-01.html
30. ( ESNUG 393 #2 ) 12% On-Chip Timing Variations & IBM's EinsTimer
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0395-08.html
31. ( ESNUG 393 #4 ) Only Fools & Idiots Use #1 Delays In Their Code
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0410-11.html
32. Three Users Trip Reports About This Year's DVcon'03 Conference
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0419-08.html
33. ( ESNUG 407 #1 ) 0-in, Averant, Real Intent, Jasper, Verplex
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0417-06.html
34. ( ESNUG 405 #6 ) Five Customers Discuss Averant's Solidify Tool
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0414-05.html
35. Get Astro To Read In LEF That's Been Generated By First Encounter
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0420-08.html
36. Our DC, Monterey, Calibre, Simplex, PrimeTime, Formality Tapeouts
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0404-16.html
37. A Boatload Of Readers React To Aart's VHDL End-of-Life Notice
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0411-06.html
38. How To Initialize Astro Hierarchy Preservation After The Fact
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0416-02.html
39. User Warns PhysOpt 2003.03 Has Weird Macro "Prisons" & "Shadows"
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0416-11.html
40. ( SNUG 03 #6 ) An App Note On How To Speed Up Your ModelSim Runs
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0412-14.html
41. Three Anonymous Customers Review The Tharas Hammer Accelerator
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0408-03.html
42. ( ESNUG 417 #7 ) Speeding Up CeltIC Runtimes In A PrimeTime Flow
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0420-05.html
43. A First Customer Look At Prolific's New ProTiming / PrimeTime ECOs
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0410-01.html
44. Dan's First Place DVcon'03 Paper On How To Reduce Random Testing
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0410-07.html
45. ( ESNUG 406 #10 ) Verplex, Formality, & Those Encrypted DW Parts
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0413-02.html
46. ( SNUG 03 #5 ) 5th Grade Math, Architectural Weenies, and SystemC
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0412-01.html
47. Rajesh's DVCon'03 Paper On Free Ways To Speed Up Your Verilog Runs
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0410-08.html
48. ( ESNUG 402 #5 ) HAL, LEDA, Verilint, HDLLint, Surelint, SpyGlass
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0403-05.html
49. ( SNUG 03 #22 ) NanoSim, Nassda HSIM, Avanti HSPICE, Spectre, Eldo
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0412-13.html
50. ( ESNUG 410 #2 ) Magma BlastFusion, Useful Skew, Scan, and OCV
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0411-01.html
Studies indicate there's a measurable 3X to 5X (with a 4.2X average) gain
of actual readership over the DeepChip pageviews. In other words, if 1,000
people click on a specific Item link on DeepChip, in reality 4,200 read that
Item in the 19,000 subscriber ESNUG emailing. Thus from the fact that the
#1 topic received 7,234 DeepChip pageviews and the #50 topic received 3,672
DeepChip pageviews -- in reality these top 50 subjects had an estimated
overall readership of 7,234 x 4.2 = 30,383 user views for the #1 topic down
to 3,672 x 4.2 = 15,422 user views for the #50 topic.
- John Cooley
the ESNUG guy
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