EDA Engineer’s Survival Kit
eEDA Engineer’s Survival Kit
"That what can be scripted, should be scripted"
This page contains tools (mostly links) that are essential for the survival of E(lectronic) D(esig) A(utomation) Engineer in the wild jungle of EDA. This is dedicated to those tormented souls who do not have single language they can call their own but need to use all of them with innate proficiency to get the work done.
RTL Coding
Papers @ Sunburst Design – A Must read for most people starting HDL coding. Usually updated with latest papers on SystemVerilog now-a-days.
PERL
PERL Regular Expressions – A useful page giving a quick overview of the various Regular Expressions in PERL
PERL One Liners – A list of useful PERL oneliners
CPAN – Freely available codebase of PERL snippets
Writing reusable perl Modules – Simple guide to write reusable PERL scripts
When Perl Isn’t Fast Enough – A guide on how to speed up your Perl scripts that may be running too slow.
Shell Scipting / SED / AWK
Sed Oneliners – Simple one liner in SED to get things done
TCL
TCL Tutorial – A very good online tutorial
Vendor Portals
Solvenet – Synopsys Portal. Contains all the documentation online along with articles. Needs a login linked to liscences that the company had. Ask around in your company for the same
SourceLink – Cadence Portal. I dont have a login yet! so dont know the procedure 
Electonics Portals (Better Get the RSS feeds)
Electonics Blogs (RSS is better! 
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Core Values – A Fabless Company’s VP’s outlook on the Industry
Electro-Ramblings – Blog of the Electronics Weekly Portal
Mannerism – Another EW blog , hosted by David Manners
Please mail me or comment here if anyone has any other links/info that might be useful
