> For 2006, except for the return of revenue growth, the EDA industry hasn't
> had a stellar year this year.  As Vic Kulkarni once wrote, EDA has become
> the Rodney Dangerfield of high tech. ... "We don't get no respect!"
>
>     - Gary Smith in http://www.deepchip.com/items/0459-11.html


From: Carl Harris <carl.harris=user domain=springer not balm>

Hi, John,

There was a definite up-tick in both attendance and book sales for most of
the conferences I attended in 2006.

Here's our Top 10 best selling books at DVcon 2006:

   1. Writing Testbenches Using System Verilog
      by Janick Bergeron, Feb 2006, ISBN: 0-387-29221-7

   2. Verification Methodology Manual for System Verilog
      by Bergeron et al, Oct 2005, ISBN: 0-387-25538-9

   3. SystemC: From the Ground Up
      by Black and Donovan, Jan 2006, ISBN: 0-387-29240-3

   4. System Verilog for Design
      by Stu Sutherland, Sep 2004, ISBN: 1-4020-7530-8

   5. A Practical Guide for System Verilog Assertions
      by Vijayaraghavan and Ramanathan, Sep 2005, ISBN: 0-387-26049-8

   6. Constraint-Based Verification
      by Yuan, Pixley and Aziz, Jan 2006, ISBN: 0-387-25947-3

   7. Verilog: Frequently Asked Questions
      by Chonnad and Balachander, Nov 2004, ISBN :1-4020-8018-2

   8. Functional Verification Coverage Measurement and Analysis
      by Andy Piziali, Nov 2004, ISBN: 1-4020-8025-5

   9. CPU Design: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
      by Thimmannagari et al, Sep 2005, ISBN: 1-4020-7530-8

  10. Verification Plans
      by Peet James, 2003, ISBN: 1-4020-7619-3

As it turns out DVCon 2006 was way up over DVCon 2005.  We more than doubled
our sales for a percentage increase of 134%.  Our "Writing Testbenches using
System Verilog" (#1) was brand new and the VMM (#2) had gotten a lot of 
pre-meeting publicity.

Here's our Top 10 best selling books at DAC 2006:

   1. System Verilog: Guide to Learning the Testbench Language Features
      by Chris Spear, May 2006, ISBN: 0-387-27036-1

   2. System Verilog for Design, Second Edition
      by Sutherland, Davidmann and Flake, Jun 2006, ISBN: 0-387-33399-1

   3. Statistical Analysis and Optimization for VLSI: Timing and Power
      by Srivastava, Sylvester and Blaauw, Jun 2005, ISBN: 0-387-25738-1

   4. Writing Testbenches Using System Verilog
      by Janick Bergeron, Feb 2006, ISBN: 0-387-29221-7

   5. Verification Methodology Manual for System Verilog
      by Janick Bergeron et al, Jan 2006, ISBN: 0-387-25538-9

   6. Timing
      by Sachin Sapatnekar, Apr 2004, ISBN: 1-4020-7671-1

   7. A Practical Introduction to PSL
      by Cindy Eisner and Dana Fisman, Jul 2006, ISBN: 0-387-35313-5

   8. Analog Design Essentials
      by Willy Sansen, May 2006, ISBN: 0-387-25746-2

   9. SystemC: From the Ground Up
      by David Black and Jack Donovan, Jan 2005, ISBN: 0-387-29240-3

  10. Transaction-Level Modeling with SystemC
      by Frank Ghenassia, Jan 2005, ISBN: 0-387-26232-6

Book sales at DAC 2006 in San Francisco were up just under 12% over our 2005
DAC sales.  Like most everyone else we would be glad if every DAC was held
in San Francisco every year.

Here's our Top 10 best selling books at ICCAD 2006:

   1. Statistical Analysis and Optimization for VLSI: Timing and Power
      by Srivastava, Sylvester and Blaauw, Jun 2005, ISBN: 0-387-25738-1

   2. Timing
      by Sachin Sapatnekar, Apr 2004, ISBN: 1-4020-7671-1

   3. Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation
      by N.A. Sherwani, Nov 1998, ISBN 0-7923-8393-1

   4. Reconfigurable Computing
      by M. Gokhale, Dec 2005, ISBN 0-387-26105-2

   5. Logic Synthesis and Verification Algorithms
      by Hachtel and Somenzi, Feb 2006, ISBN 0-387-31004-5

   6. Design Automation Methods and Tools for Microfluidics-Based Biochips
      by Chakrabarty and Zeng, Sep 2006, ISBN 1-4020-5122-0

   7. Substrate Noise
      by Edoardo Charbon et al, Apr 2001, ISBN 0-7923-7325-1

   8. Computation Engineering: Applied Automata and Theory
      by Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Jun 2006, ISBN 0-387-24418-2

   9. Transistor Level Modeling for Analog/RF IC Design
      by Grabinski, Nauwelaers, and Schreurs, Mar 2006, ISBN 1-4020-4555-7

  10. Leakage in Nanometer CMOS Technologies
      by Narendra and Chandrakasan, Jun 2005, ISBN 0-387-25737-3

Unlike DVcon 06 and DAC 06, our ICCAD books sales numbers were a different
story.  Our sales at ICCAD 06 fell dramatically from ICCAD 05.  The actual
percentage drop was 31%.  We didn't have any major new books that would
particularly appeal to this audience.

    - Carl Harris
      Springer/Kluwer Academic Publishers        Norwell, MA