A list of notable electronic design automation (EDA) companies.
Company | EDA products |
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Aldec |
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Altair Engineering |
Through RunTime Design Automation Acquisition
Through Polliwog Acquisition
Through Concept Engineering Acquisition
Through Powersim Acquisition Through Metrics Design Automation Acquisition
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Altium (Subsidiary of Renesas Electronics) |
Through Upverter Acquisition
Through Perception Software Acquisition
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Ansys |
Through Helic Acquisition
Through DfR Solutions Acquisition Through Diakopto Acquisition
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Arteris | Through Magillem Design Services Acquisition
Through Semifore Acquisition
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Autodesk |
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Cadence Design Systems |
Through AWR Corporation Acquisition
Through Integrand Software Acquisition
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COSEDA Technologies |
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Dassault Systèmes | Through CST acquisition
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EasyEDA |
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EasyLogix - Schindler & Schill GmbH |
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Emerson Electric | Through National Instruments Acquisition
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Eremex |
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IC Manage |
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Ing.-Büro FRIEDRICH | TARGET 3001! PCB Layout CAD Software
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JEDA Technologies |
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PathWave Design Keysight Technologies EDA division (formerly EEsof) |
Through Cliosoft Acquisition
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Lauterbach |
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Siemens Digital Industries Software Siemens EDA division (formerly Mentor Graphics) | acquired by Siemens in 2017.
Through LogicVision Acquisition
Through Solido Design Automation Acquisition
Through Austemper Design Systems Acquisition
Through UltraSoC Acquisition
Through Avatar Integrated Systems Acquisition
Through OneSpin Solutions Acquisition
Through Fractal Technologies Acquisition
Through InsightEDA Acquisition
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VisualSim Architect (Mirabilis Design
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MathWorks | For logical FPGA and ASIC designs
For physical PCB and ASIC designs
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Novarm |
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Silvaco | SPICE modeling and analog & mixed-signal simulation
Custom IC CAD
Interconnect modeling
Library Platform
Through Coupling Wave Solutions assets' Acquisition
Through Polyteda Cloud Acquisition
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Synopsys |
Through Avant! Acquisition
Through Magma Design Automation Acquisition
Through Synplicity Acquisition [4]
Through Terrain EDA Acquisition [5] Through Dorado Design Automation (Dorado DA) Acquisition
Through Silicon Frontline Technology Acquisition
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WestDev |
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Zuken | |
Company | EDA products |
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Achronix |
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Altera (formerly Intel Programmable Solutions Group [6] ; Subsidiary of Intel) | Intel acquired Altera in 2015.
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Dialog Semiconductor (Subsidiary of Renesas Electronics) | Dialog Semiconductor acquired Silego Technology Inc. in 2017. |
Lattice Semiconductor |
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Microsemi (Subsidiary of Microchip Technology) | Microsemi acquired Actel in 2010.
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Xilinx (Subsidiary of AMD) | |
Company | EDA products |
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Digi-Key |
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RS Components |
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Community | EDA products |
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gEDA |
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KiCad (GPL) |
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Analog Design Automation | acquired by Synopsys [7] in 2004
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Ansoft Corporation | acquired by Ansys |
Applicon | Acquired by Schlumberger in 1980. |
Applied Wave Research | acquired by Cadence Design Systems
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ARC International | acquired by Synopsys
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Automated Systems, Inc. | acquired by Cadence Design Systems [8] in 1990
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Avant! Corporation | acquired by Synopsys [9] in 2002. Avant! itself resulted from the merger of ArcSys and Integrated Silicon Systems on November 27, 1995. It acquired Anagram on September 27, 1996, Meta-Software on October 29, 1996, FrontLine Design Automation on November 27, 1996, and Nexsyn Design Technology on December 31, 1996. [10] |
Azuro | acquired by Cadence [11] in 2011
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CadSoft Computer | acquired by Autodesk in 2016 |
Calma | merged into Valid, then Cadence Design Systems [12] |
Ciranova | Acquired by Synopsys [13] in 2012 |
CoFluent Design | acquired by Intel [14] in 2011
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Computervision | Merged into Prime Computer in 1988. Computervision Electrical Design software purchased by INCASES in 1994. |
Coware | acquired by Synopsys in 2010 |
CST - Computer Simulation Technology | acquired by Dassault Systèmes in 2016 |
Daisy Systems | merged with Cadnetix in 1988 |
Denali Software | acquired by Cadence Design Systems in Q2 of 2010 |
ECAD, Inc. | merged with SDA Systems in 1987 to create Cadence |
Forte Design Systems | acquired by Cadence Design Systems [15] in 2014
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Gateway Design Automation | acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 1989
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IKOS Systems | acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2002 [16]
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Interactive Image Technologies or Electronics Workbench | acquired by National Instruments in 2005 |
LogicVision | acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2009 |
Magma Design Automation | acquired by Synopsys in 2012 |
NanGate | acquired by Silvaco in 2018 |
Nimbic (formerly Physware) | acquired by Mentor in 2014 [3] |
OrCAD | acquired by Cadence in 1999 |
Protel | renamed as Altium |
Racal-Redac | Acquired by Zuken in 1994 |
Solido Design Automation | acquired by Siemens in 2017 |
SpringSoft, Inc. | acquired by Synopsys [17]
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Tanner EDA | acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2015 [18] |
Valid Logic Systems | merged into Cadence [19] |
Upverter | acquired by Altium in 2017 |
DAFCA |
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Spectrum Software | closed in 2019 |
UniCAD | Acquired by CCT [20] (Cooper & Chyan Technology) |
Mentor Graphics Corporation was a US-based electronic design automation (EDA) multinational corporation for electrical engineering and electronics, headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon. Founded in 1981, the company distributed products that assist in electronic design automation, simulation tools for analog mixed-signal design, VPN solutions, and fluid dynamics and heat transfer tools. The company leveraged Apollo Computer workstations to differentiate itself within the computer-aided engineering (CAE) market with its software and hardware.
Electronic design automation (EDA), also referred to as electronic computer-aided design (ECAD), is a category of software tools for designing electronic systems such as integrated circuits and printed circuit boards. The tools work together in a design flow that chip designers use to design and analyze entire semiconductor chips. Since a modern semiconductor chip can have billions of components, EDA tools are essential for their design; this article in particular describes EDA specifically with respect to integrated circuits (ICs).
Synopsys, Inc. is an American electronic design automation (EDA) company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that focuses on silicon design and verification, silicon intellectual property and software security and quality. Synopsys supplies tools and services to the semiconductor design and manufacturing industry. Products include tools for logic synthesis and physical design of integrated circuits, simulators for development, and debugging environments that assist in the design of the logic for chips and computer systems. As of 2023, the company is a component of the Nasdaq-100 and S&P 500 indices.
Magma Design Automation was a software company in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry. The company was founded in 1997 and maintained headquarters in San Jose, California, with facilities throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Magma software products were used in major elements of integrated circuit design, including: synthesis, placement, routing, power management, circuit simulation, verification and analog/mixed-signal design.
OpenAccess is a proprietary API controlled by the OpenAccess Coalition that aims to facilitate Interoperability of electronic design automation software among the members of that coalition.
Daisy Systems Corporation, incorporated in 1981 in Mountain View, California, was a computer-aided engineering company, a pioneer in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry.
The Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to EDA honors individuals for their impact on electronic design by their contributions to electronic design automation (EDA). It was established in 1994 by the EDA Consortium. The IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) became a co-sponsor of the award. The first Phil Kaufman Award was presented in 1994.
OrCAD Systems Corporation was a software company that made OrCAD, a proprietary software tool suite used primarily for electronic design automation (EDA). The software is used mainly by electronic design engineers and electronic technicians to create electronic schematics, and perform mixed-signal simulation and electronic prints for manufacturing printed circuit boards (PCBs). OrCAD was taken over by Cadence Design Systems in 1999 and was integrated with Cadence Allegro in 2005.
Zuken Inc. is a Japanese multinational corporation, specializing in software and consulting services for end-to-end electrical and electronic engineering. Zuken came into existence as a pioneer in the development of CAD systems in Japan to contribute to electronics manufacturing. The literal translation of Zuken is "graphics laboratory." Established in 1976 in Yokohama, Japan, it is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange; net sales amounted to US$216 million for the year 2011.
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology and computational software company. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Cadence was formed in 1988 through the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD. Initially specialized in electronic design automation (EDA) software for the semiconductor industry, currently the company makes software and hardware for designing products such as integrated circuits, systems on chips (SoCs), printed circuit boards, and pharmaceutical drugs, also licensing intellectual property for the electronics, aerospace, defense and automotive industries, among others.
PathWave Design is a division of Keysight Technologies that was formerly called EEsof. It is a provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software that helps engineers design products such as cellular phones, wireless networks, radar, satellite communications systems, and high-speed digital wireline infrastructure. Applications include electronic system level (ESL), high-speed digital, RF-Mixed signal, device modeling, RF and Microwave design for commercial wireless, aerospace, and defense markets.
Aart J. de Geus is a co-founder and executive chair of Synopsys Inc., where he was CEO until January 2024.
AWR Corporation is an electronic design automation (EDA) software company, formerly known as Applied Wave Research, and then acquired by National Instruments
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EVE/ZeBu is a provider of hardware-assisted verification tools for functional verification of Application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and system on chip (SOC) designs and for validation of embedded software ahead of implementation in silicon. EVE's hardware acceleration and hardware emulation products work in conjunction with Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL-based simulators from Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems and Mentor Graphics. EVE's flagship product is ZeBu.
P-CAD was the brand name of Personal CAD Systems, Inc., a California-based manufacturer of electronic design automation software. It manufactured a CAD software available for personal computers. The company was divested into ACCEL Technologies, which was purchased by Altium in 2000. The last release of the software was in 2006, before it was retired in favor of the Altium Designer product.
Siemens Digital Industries Software is an American computer software company specializing in 3D & 2D Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software. The company is a business unit of Siemens, operates under the legal name of Siemens Industry Software Inc, and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.
The Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering Achievement Award is issued annually since 2000 by the Design Automation Conference (DAC) to honor the outstanding achievements of women in Electronic Design Automation. It is named after the co-founder of DAC, Marie Pistilli. Originally named as the "Marie R. Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award", it is named the "Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering Achievement Award" since 2016.
Kathryn Kranen is an American electronic design automation engineer and business executive.