List of EDA companies


A list of electronic design automation companies.

Existing companies

Software companies

CompanyEDA products
Aldec
  • Active-HDL
  • HES-DVM
  • HES
  • Riviera-PRO
  • ALINT-PRO
  • Spec-TRACER
  • TySOM
Altair EngineeringThrough Polliwog Acquisition
  • PollEx
Altium
  • 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
  • * 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 environment in SOLIDWORKS
  • * EDA Connect - Direct Link Between Altium Environment & Enterprise PLM
  • Protel PCB
  • P-CAD
  • Autotrax
  • EasyTrax
  • Through Upverter Acquisition
    • Upverter - online EDA
    • * Schematic Capture
    • * PCB Layout
    • * System Design Tool
    Through Perception Software Acquisition
    • EDAConnect
    Ansys
  • Ansoft HFSS - High-Frequency Structure Simulation
  • Apache Design, Inc. products:
  • * PowerArtist: RTL Design for Power Platform
  • * 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
  • Through Helic Acquisition
    • Pharos
    • VeloceRF
    • RaptorX
    • Exalto
    Through DfR Solutions Acquisition
    Autodesk
  • EAGLE
  • 123D Circuits - online EDA
  • * Electronics Lab
  • * PCB Design
  • * Circuit Scribe
  • * MESH
  • Autodesk Library.io - parts library management tool
  • Tinkercad Circuits
  • 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
  • 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 acquired from Synopsys
  • Forte Design Systems products
  • * Cynthesizer
  • Through AWR Corporation Acquisition
    • Platform:
    • *AWR Design Environment – high frequency design
    • Simulators:
    • * Microwave Office - RF/microwave circuit simulation, APLAC - Harmonic balance solver for nonlinear, frequency domain circuit simulation
    • * Analog Office - analog/RFIC simulation
    • * Visual System Simulator - system level communication/radar simulator
    • EM solvers:
    • *AXIEM – 3D planar, Method of Moments
    • *Analyst – full 3D, finite element method with adaptive meshing
    • *AntSyn – Antenna Synthesis
    COSEDA Technologies
  • COSIDE
  • Dassault SystemesThrough CST acquisition
    • CST Studio Suite
    • * CST MICROWAVE STUDIO
    • * CST EM STUDIO
    • * CST PARTICLE STUDIO
    • * CST CABLE STUDIO
    • * CST PCB STUDIO
    • * CST BOARDCHECK
    • * CST MPHYSICS STUDIO - electronics cooling
    • * CST DESIGN STUDIO
    • IdEM
    • * generation of macromodels
    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
  • EasyEDA
  • EasyEDA - online EDA
  • * Schematic capture
  • * SPICE simulation
  • * PCB layout
  • EasyLogix - Schindler & Schill GmbH
  • PCB-Investigator - Professional ECAD Workstation for PCB development
  • GerberLogix - Free Gerber Viewer
  • Online-Gerber-Viewer - Free Gerber Viewer
  • Eremex
  • 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
  • SimOne - circuit simulation
  • Delta Design - software tool for electronic design automation
  • IC Manage
  • GDP Design & IP Management, Envision Design Progress Analytics, Envision Verification Analytics, High Performance Computing
  • Ing.-Büro FRIEDRICHTARGET 3001! PCB Layout CAD Software
    • Schematic editor
    • Simulation PSpice compliant
    • PCB design
    • Front panel design
    • 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
    JEDA Technologies
  • C/C++/SystemC Model Validation Tool Suite
  • OCP Validation Suite
  • TLM2.0 Validation Suite
  • Keysight Technologies PathWave Design EDA division
  • Platforms:
  • * PathWave Advanced Design System – high frequency and high speed design
  • * PathWave EM Design - 3D EM platform
  • * PathWave RFIC Design - RFIC/RF mixed signal simulator
  • * PathWave Device Modeling, PathWave Model Builder, PathWave Model QA - Device modeling and validation
  • * PathWave RF Synthesis - RF and microwave design
  • * PathWave System Design - Electronic system-level design
  • EM solvers:
  • *Momentum – 3D planar, frequency domain, available with the 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
  • Lauterbach
  • in-circuit debuggers with optional trace functionality
  • in-circuit emulators
  • front-ends to debug virtual platforms for embedded software development
  • Mentor Graphicsacquired by Siemens in 2017.
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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: system analysis
    • 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
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    Through Solido Design Automation Acquisition
    • Solido Variation Designer - variation-aware design of custom integrated circuits
    • * Fast PVT—verify against process, voltage, and temperature corners
    • * Fast Monte Carlo—verification against 3-sigma process variation
    • * High-Sigma Monte Carlo—verification against high-sigma process variation
    • * Cell Optimizer—automated sizing of custom ICs
    Through Austemper Design Systems Acquisition
    • SafetyScope: Computes the FIT rates and diagnostic coverage metrics for permanent and transient faults
    • Annealer: Safety synthesis tools for adding error correcting codes, error detection codes, block level duplication or triple instances or design.
    • RadioScope: Safety synthesis tools for 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.
    VisualSim Architect
  • Systems Specification and Design
  • Hardware Design
  • Software Validation
  • Power Exploration
  • National Instruments
  • National Instruments Electronics Workbench Group
  • *NI Multisim - schematic capture and simulation
  • *NI Ultiboard - printed circuit board layout editor
  • Novarm
  • DipTrace
  • SilvacoSPICE modeling and analog & mixed-signal simulation
    • Utmost IV - Device characterization and SPICE modeling
    • SmartSpice - Analog circuit simulator
    • SmartSpice RF - Frequency and time domain RF circuit simulator
    • Harmony - Analog/mixed-signal circuit simulator
    • SmartView - Simulation waveform viewer
    Custom IC CAD
    • Gateway - Schematic editor
    • Expert - Layout editor
    • Guardian - DRC/LVS/NET physical verification
    • Hipex - Full-chip parasitic extraction
    • Jivaro - Parasitic reduction and analysis
    • VarMan - High-sigma variability analysis
    Interconnect modeling
    • Quest - 3D RF passive device modeling
    • Clever - Parasitic extractor for realistic 3D structures
    • Stellar - 3D physics-based parasitic extractor for carge cells
    • Exact - Full-chip LPE rule file generator
    Library Platform
    • Cello - Standard cell library creation, migration and optimization
    • Viola - Standard cell library and I/O cell characterization
    • Liberty Analyzer - Analysis and validation of timing, power, noise and area data from characterization
    TCAD
    • Victory Process - 2D/3D semiconductor process simulator
    • Victory Device - 2D/3D semiconductor device simulator
    • Virtual Wafer Fab - Emulation of wafer manufacturing to perform design-of-experiments and optimization.
    Synopsys
  • 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
  • Proteus OPC
  • Protocol Analyzer
  • 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
  • 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 Interface
  • * Corporate Database Connection Interface
  • * 3D View
  • Zuken
  • Cabling Designer
  • Cadstar
  • CR-5000
  • CR-8000
  • Visula
  • FPGA companies

    Electronics distribution companies

    Development communities

    Defunct companies