List of EDA companies

A list of electronic design automation(EDA) companies.

Contents
Existing companies
Generic companies
FPGA companies
Electronics distribution companies
Development communities
Defunct companies
See also
References

Existing companies

Generic companies
 Company EDA products

IDesignSpec Register Management tool

ISequenceSpec Portable Sequence Generator
Agnisys IVerifySpec Verification Management tool
DVinsight Editor and Checker for SV, UVM
ARV (Automatic Register Verification)

Active-HDL
HES-DVM
Aldec Riviera-PRO
ALINT
Spec-TRACER

Altium Designer

PCB Design
Circuit Simulation
Altium Designer - PCB Design software, Schematic Capture and Circuit Simulation
Altium Vault - Design Data Management Solution
PDN Analyzer - Power Distribution and Network Analysis (A/C)
CircuitStudio - easy-to-use PCB design tool
CircuitMaker - free community-driven PCB design tool for makers
SOLIDWORKS PCB Connector - OEM Product provides link from AD to you MCAD
Altium environment in SOLIDWORKS
EDA Connect - Direct Link Between Altium Environment & Enterprise PLM
Protel PCB (discontinued)
P-CAD (discontinued - former EDA fromAccel Technologies)
Upverter - online EDA

Schematic Capture
PCB Layout
System Design Tool
Autotrax (discontinued)
EasyTrax (discontinued)

Ansoft HFSS - High-Frequency Structure Simulation

Apache Design, Inc. products:

PowerArtist: RTL Design for Power Platform

Ansys
RedHawk: Full-chip Dynamic SoC Power Integrity Solution
Totem: Analog and Mixed-Signal Power & Noise Platform
Sentinel: Chip-Package-System Co-design/Co-analysis Solution
PathFinder: Layout-based ESD Integrity Solution

SafetyScope: Computes the FIT rates and diagnostic coverage metrics for permanent and
transient faults
Annealer: Safety synthesis toolsfor adding error correcting codes (ECC), error detection
Austemper Design codes (EDC), block level duplication or triple instances or design.
Systems Inc
RadioScope: Safety synthesis toolsfor adding ECC or EDC to banks of flops, duplication of
critical sections of the design, addition of illegal condition checks.
KaleidoScope: Fault campaign tool capable of fault propagation and disposition of injected
faults into detected, safe and undetected faults.

Avery Design
Systems Verification IPs
SimXACT: Gate-level simulation productivitytool with focus on X-pessimism removal
 SimCluster: Parallel logic simulation environment

Visual Verification Suite (VVS):

Advanced Clock Environment

Blue Pearl Analyze RTL
Software Clock Domain Crossing (CDC)
Management Dashboard
Automatic SDC Generation
VVS: Vivado Tcl Store App

HFWorks: High Frequency Electromagnetic Simulator

EMWorks EMS: Low Frequency Electromagnetic Simulator

Cadence Design
Systems System Development Suite with Verification Computing Platform, Virtual System Platform,
Incisive Verification Platform, and Rapid Prototyping Platform
C-to-Silicon
Verification IP Catalog
Design IP
Chip Planning Solution
Virtuoso - IC Artist
Virtuoso - IC Layout
Virtuoso - Layout Migrate
Innovus - Digital IC design
Encounter - Digital IC design
Encounter - Conformal-LEC
Encounter - Conformal Low Power
Encounter - Conformal ECO Designer
Encounter - Conformal Constraint Designer
Encounter - RTL Compiler
Encounter - RTL Compiler Physical
Encounter - Test ATPG
Encounter - Test Diagnostics
Encounter - Design Implementation
Encounter - QRC (Extraction & Checking)
Encounter - Nanoroute
Allegro - PC/MCM design
Incisive - functional verification
Design for Manufacturing
Specctra autorouter
OrCAD

PSpice
Denali Software products

Specctra
PureSpec
MMAV
Databahn
Blueprint
Sigrity products

OptimizePI
PowerDC
XtractIM
PowerSI
 Broadband SPICE
SPEED2000
Channel Designer
XcitePI
OrbitIO Planner
Unified Package Designer (UPD) acquired from Synopsys
Forte Design Systems products

Cynthesizer

EAGLE
123D Circuits (formerly Circuits.io; discontinued) - online EDA

Electronics Lab
Autodesk PCB Design
Circuit Scribe
MESH
Autodesk Library.io - parts library management tool
Tinkercad Circuits (formerly Electronics Lab[1])

StarVision
Concept GateVision
Engineering RTLvision
GmbH
SpiceVision
Nlview Widgets

CST Studio Suite

Transient solver - 3D signal and power integrity analysis, true transient EM/circuit co-
simulation, EMI analysis
Dassault Frequency domain solver - 3D electronics simulation
Systemes Rulecheck - EMC/Si rulechecking
MPS - electronics cooling
IdEM

generation of macromodels

ECO System

Tweaker-T1 Timing ECO

Tweaker-P1 Leakage Power ECO
Tweaker-P2 Dynamic Power ECO
Tweaker-C1 Clock ECO
Dorado Design
Automation Tweaker-M1 Metal ECO
Tweaker-F1 Functional ECO
Recovery System

Tweaker-A1 Area Recovery

Tweaker-P1 Dynamic Power Recovery
Tweaker-R1 Reliability Recovery

EasyEDA - online EDA

EasyEDA Schematic capture

SPICE simulation
PCB layout

Dolphin Integration
 SLED - Schematic entry and netlisting
SMASH - Mixed-signal, mixed-language modeling and simulation
SCROOGE TLA - Mixed-signal power consumption estimation
SoC GDS - Layout viewer and processor
GDS Reticle - Test pattern frame generator
SmartVision - application software debug capabilities thanks to the modeling and simulation
of the complete sub-system including processors, memories and peripherals

EasyLogix - PCB-Investigator - Professional ECAD Workstation for PCB development

Schindler & Schill GerberLogix - Free Gerber Viewer
GmbH
Online-Gerber-Viewer - Free Gerber Viewer (no installation required)

TopoR - topological router for printed circuit boards laid out in any compatible systems that
use the PCAD ASCII PCB, PADS ASCII PCB or DSN format
Eremex SimOne - circuit simulation (the basic circuit analyses common to SPICE modeling systems
+ stability analysis)
Delta Design - software tool for electronic design automation(EDA)

Ferrochip Design Studio - Integrated Magnetics EDA T

ool

IC Manage GDP Design & IP Management, Envision Design Progress Analytics, Envisionerification
V
Analytics, High Performance Computing

TARGET 3001! PCB Layout CAD Software

Schematic editor
Simulation PSpice compliant
PCB design
Ing.-Büro Front panel design
FRIEDRICH SQL component database
3D model design, STEP Import, STEP Export
PCB assembly price calculator
Electra: High speed auto router
COMPONIVERSE: A component exchange
MID Design

Nebula Silicon Debugger - Interactive program which connects toSynopsys VCS and
Intellitech Cadence Design SystemsNCSim for pre-silicon validation with cross-reference during
connection to real silicon

Pantheon - PCB, RF and Hybrid layout application with manufacture verification

Intercept Mozaix - Schematic entry
Technology Inc
Indx - Library management
Windows and Linux platforms

Functional Safety solutions, ISO-26262 ASIL-D

Fastest fault simulator in the market: over 100,000X faster than regular simulators
Automated tools for
Optima Design
Automation
Optima-SE: Resolving soft-error and reducing FIT rate to 0
Optima-HE: Measure and Boost Safety-Mechanism coverage for hard-errors
Optima-SM: Automated tool for insertion of safety-mechanism, resolving both soft-errors
and hard-errors, achieve ASIL-D automatically

Verific Design VDA acquired Invionics's Invio platform in 2017.

Automation
 Invio Custom EDA Tool Platform - Platform that allows IC developers to quickly build custom
EDA tools in tcl or Python that parse, explore and manipulate eVrilog, SystemVerilog and
VHDL

JEDA C/C++/SystemC Model Validation Tool Suite

Technologies OCP Validation Suite
TLM2.0 Validation Suite

Platforms:

Advanced Design System– high frequency and high speed design

EMPro (formerly Antenna Modeling Design System) - 3D EM platform
GoldenGate (supersedes RF Design Environment) - RFIC/RF mixed signal simulator
(Xpedion acquisition)
IC-CAP, Model Builder Program (MBP), Model Quality Assurance (MQA), Advanced
Keysight
Model Analysis (AMA) - Device modeling and validation (all but IC-CAP from Accelicon
Technologies
acquisition)
EEsof EDA
division Genesys - RF and microwave design (Eagleware-Elanix acquisition)
SystemVue - Electronic system-level design E
( agleware-Elanix acquisition)
EM solvers:

Momentum – 3D planar, frequency domain, available with het ADS, Genesys, and
GoldenGate platforms
FEM Element – full 3D, frequency domain, available with the ADS and EMPro platforms
FDTD – full 3D, time domain, available with the EMPro platform

Proteus Design Suite comprising modules for:

Labcenter Schematic Capture

Electronics Ltd PCB Layout
Mixed mode SPICE circuit simulation
Micro-controller / Embedded Systems Simulation

in-circuit debuggers (JTAG and non-JTAG) with optional trace functionality

Lauterbach in-circuit emulators
front-ends to debug virtual platforms for embedded software development (ESL)

Mentor Graphics acquired by Siemens in 2017.

(Subsidiary of
Siemens) ADiT - Nanometer IC Design: fast SPICE
Questa ADMS - Nanometer IC Design: mixed-signal simulator
Board Station - PCB design software
Calibre - physical verification
Catapult Synthesis - ESL Design: high-level synthesis
Catapult Library Builder - ESL Design: high-level synthesis
Design Architect-IC - Nanometer IC Design
Eldo - Nanometer IC Design: SPICE simulator
Eldo RF - Nanometer IC Design: SPICE simulator
Expedition - PCB design software
IP - intellectual property (now part of embedded systems division)
ModelSim LE - Nanometer IC Design: digital design and simulation; Linux-based simulator
with Dataflow Window and Waveform Compare
ModelSim PE - Nanometer IC Design: digital design and simulation; Windows-based
simulator for VHDL, Verilog, or mixed-language simulation environments
ModelSim SE - Nanometer IC Design: digital design and simulation; tri-lingual simulator with
VHDL, Verilog, and SystemC
Nimbic products[2]
Nucleus EDGE - embedded systems development tools
Inflexion - embedded systems application platform tools
 Nucleus OS - embedded systems OS
Olympus-SoC - place and route
PADS - PCB design software
Platform Express Professional - ESL Design:platform-based design
Platform Express Integrator's Kit - ESL Design: platform-based design
Platform Express Client - ESL Design: platform-based design
Questa - digital and mixed-signal simulation
System Architect - ESL Design: system analysis
SystemVision - Mechatronic Design: systemanalysis
Tessent suite for test

Tessent TestKompress
Tessent BoundaryScan
Tessent FastScan
Tessent IJTAG
Tessent LogicBIST
Tessent Scan/ScanPro
Vista - ESL Design: system debug
Visual Elite - ESL Design: system integration
Veloce/Veloce2 - high speed, high capacity SoC emulation
Through LogicVision Acquisition

Dragonfly - Embedded test IP insertion tool for logic, memory and mixed-signal testing
Silicon Insight - Interactive program that works with 3rd party testers for controlling and
logging of data on the device for at-speed testing
Yield Insight - Yield analysis program which looks at foundry and performance data to
diagnose possible problems
HDL Designer Series

Systems Specification and Design

VisualSim
Architect (Mirabilis Hardware Design
Design Inc) Software Validation
Power Exploration

National Instruments Electronics Workbench Group

National NI Multisim - schematic capture and simulation
Instruments
NI Ultiboard - printed circuit board layout editor
AWR Corporation products

Novarm DipTrace

POLYTEDA LLC PowerDRC/LVS

WestDev
Pulsonix

Pulsonix Schematic Capture

Pulsonix Advanced PCB Layout
Embedded Component Technology
Flexi-rigid Circuit Design
Chip-on-board Design
Spice Mixed Mode A/D Simulation
Constraints Driven Interactive High Speed Design
Shape Based Autorouter
Product Life Management(PLM) Interface
Corporate Database Connection Interface
 3D View

Sigasi Sigasi Studio - HDL Design Software

Simberian Simbeor: Electromagnetic Signal Integrity Software to Design Predictable PCB/Packaging

Interconnects

Analog & mixed signal

Utmost III - Device characterization and modeling

Utmost IV - Device Characterization and SPICE Modeling
Spayn - Statistical Parameter and Yield Analysis
Gateway - Schematic Editor
SmartSpice - Analog Circuit Simulator
SmartSpiceRF - Frequency and time domain RF circuit simulator
Harmony - Analog/Mixed-Signal Simulator
Custom IC CAD

Expert - Layout Editor

Guardian - DRC/LVS/NET Physical Verification
Hipex - Full-Chip Parasitic Extraction
Interconnect modeling

Quest - 3D RF Passive Device Modeling

Clever - RC Extractor for Realistic 3D Structures
Stellar - 3D Physics-Based RC Extractor for Large Cells
Exact - Full Chip LPE Rule File Generator
Silvaco
International Digital CAD

Silos - Verilog Simulator

HyperFault - Mixed-Level Fault Simulator
AccuCell - Cell Characterization and Modeling
AccuCore - Block Characterization, Modeling and ST A
Catalyst AD - SPICE Netlist to Verilog Gates Converter
Catalyst DA - Verilog Netlist to SPICE NetlistConverter
Spider - Place and Route Design Flow

Through NanGate Acquisition

Silvaco Library Platform

Silvaco Cello

Library Creator - Standard Cell Library Platform (IP creation and migration)
Design Optimizer - Concurrent analysis and optimization of design, constraints and
libraries
Silvaco Viola

Library Characterizer
Silvaco Liberty Analyzer

acquired by Siemens in 2017.

Solido Design Variation Designer - variation-aware design of custom integrated circuits

Automation
(Subsidiary of Fast PVT—verify against process, voltage, and temperature corners
Siemens) Fast Monte Carlo—verification against 3-sigma process (statistical) variation
High-Sigma Monte Carlo—verification against high-sigma process (statistical) variation
Cell Optimizer—automated sizing of custom ICs
Spectrum Micro-Cap
Software

Astro - place and route

Cosmos Scope
Custom Designer
Design Compiler
DFT Compiler
DFTMAX compression
Formality
Hercules - physical verification
HSIM
HSPICE
IC Compiler - place and route
IC Validator
NANOSIM
Physical Compiler
Synopsys Proteus OPC
Protocol Analyzer (debugging tool)
PrimeTime - static timing analysis
Saber
Sentaurus TCAD
Spice explorer
Star-RCXT
Synphony C Compiler -high-level synthesis
TetraMAX ATPG
VCS
VIP
XA
Yield Explorer - yield management
Viewlogic products

Powerview (discontinued)

Ucamco Develops the Gerber format, PCB CAM software

Cabling Designer
Cadstar
Zuken CR-5000
CR-8000
Visula

FPGA companies
 Company EDA products
Intel acquired Altera in 2015.
Intel
Intel Quartus Prime (formerly Altera Quartus)

Lattice Semiconductor Lattice Diamond

iCEcube2

Microsemi acquired Actel in 2010.

Microsemi
(Subsidiary of Microchip Technology) Libero

Xilinx ISE Design Suite

Xilinx Vivado

Electronics distribution companies

Company EDA products

Digi-Key Scheme-it - online EDA; developed by Aspen Labs (subsidiary ofArrow Electronics).

RS Components DesignSpark PCB - free EDA software

Development communities

Community EDA products

gschem: schematics editor

gEDA pcb: PCB layout editor
gerbv: Gerber file viewer

eeschema - schematic capture

KiCad (GPL) PCBnew - PCB layout
gerbview - Gerber viewer

Defunct companies
 EDA companies that no longer exist

acquired by Synopsys[3] in 2004

Analog Design
Automation Creative Genius - Automated sizing of analog integrated circuits
IP Explorer - High-dimensional visualization of analog performance tradeof
fs

Ansoft
acquired by Ansys
Corporation
acquired by National Instruments

Microwave Office
Applied Wave Analog Office
Research Visual System Simulator
APLAC
AXIEM

Automated acquired by Cadence Design Systems[4] in 1990

Systems, Inc. PRANCE GT - Placement, Routing and Numerical Control Editing for PCB design and layout

acquired by Synopsys[5] in 2002. Avant! itself resulted from the merger of ArcSys and Integrated
Avant! Silicon Systems on November 27, 1995. It acquired Anagram on September 27, 1996, Meta-
Corporation Software on October 29, 1996, FrontLine Design Automation on November 27, 1996 and Nexsyn
Design Technology on December 31, 1996.[6]

acquired by Cadence[7] in 2011

Azuro PowerCentric - Clock tree synthesis and automatic clock gating
Rubix - Physical optimization and automatic useful skew

CadSoft
acquired by Autodesk in 2016
Computer

Calma merged into Valid, then Cadence Design Systems[8]

Ciranova Acquired by Synopsys[9] in 2012

acquired by Intel[10] in 2011

CoFluent
Design CoFluent Studio
CoFluent Reader

Coware acquired by Synopsys in 2010

CST -
Computer
acquired by Dassault Systemes in 2016
Simulation
Technology
Daisy Systems merged with Cadnetix in 1988
Denali
acquired by Cadence Design Systemsin Q2 of 2010
Software
ECAD, Inc. merged with SDA Systems in 1987 to create Cadence

Forte Design acquired by Cadence Design Systems[11] in 2014

Systems Cynthesizer

acquired by Cadence Design Systemsin 1989

Gateway
Design Verilog HDL
Automation
Verilog-XL

Ikos Systems acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2002

NSIM - gate-level simulation accelerator HW

Gemini - Verilog simulation accelerator product
 Voyager - VHDL simulation accelerator product

Interactive
Image
Technologies acquired by National Instruments in 2005
or Electronics
Workbench
LogicVision acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2009
Magma Design
acquired by Synopsys in 2012
Automation
NanGate acquired by Silvaco in 2018
Nimbic
(formerly acquired by Mentor in 2014[2]
Physware)
OrCAD acquired by Cadence in 1999
Protel renamed as Altium

acquired by Synopsys[12]

Verdi - automated debug system

SpringSoft, Inc. Debussy - debug modules
Siloti - visibility enhancement solutions
Certitude - Functional Qualification System
Laker - Custom Layout System

Synplicity acquired by Synopsys[13]

Valid Logic
merged into Cadence[14]
Systems
Upverter acquired by Altium in 2017

DAFCA ClearBlue

See also
List of items in the categoryElectronic Design Automation companies
Comparison of EDA software
Cadence Design Systems: Acquisitions and mergers
Synopsys: Acquisitions, mergers, spinoffs

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