List of EDA companies

A list of notable electronic design automation (EDA) companies.

Existing companies

Software companies

Company	EDA products
Aldec	Active-HDL HES-DVM HES Riviera-PRO ALINT-PRO Spec-TRACER TySOM
Altair Engineering	HyperSpice Through RunTime Design Automation Acquisition FlowTracer Through Polliwog Acquisition PollEx PollExPCB - PCB viewer and knowledge-based design-verification toolset for PCB PollExLogic - PCB schematic tool to import and view schematic sheets, designs, check symbols, nets, and object properties. PollExCP - Cross Probe for design comparison (Board to borad, and board to schematic to BOM) PollExBOM - BOM parsing and formatting tool PollExCAM - To handle any type of Gerber data and compare revisions PollExUPE - A unified part library management system Through Concept Engineering Acquisition StarVision PRO RTLvision PRO GateVision PRO SpiceVision PRO Nlview Through Powersim Acquisition PSIM Software Through Metrics Design Automation Acquisition DSim
Altium (Subsidiary of Renesas Electronics)	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 environment in SOLIDWORKS EDA Connect - Direct Link Between Altium Environment & Enterprise PLM Protel PCB (discontinued) P-CAD (discontinued - former EDA from Accel Technologies) Autotrax (discontinued) EasyTrax (discontinued) 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 Sherlock Automated Design Analysis Through Diakopto Acquisition ParagonX PrimeX
Arteris	Through Magillem Design Services Acquisition Packaging: MRE, MIP Connectivity: MPA, MVP Registers: MRV Embedded software: MSE, MSX CAD Flows: MDL, MCS, MGS Through Semifore Acquisition CSRCompiler
Autodesk	EAGLE Fusion 360 (Electronics Design feature) 123D Circuits (formerly Circuits.io; discontinued) - online EDA Electronics Lab PCB Design Circuit Scribe MESH Autodesk Library.io - parts library management tool Tinkercad Circuits (formerly Electronics Lab [1] )
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 Through AWR Corporation Acquisition Platform: AWR Design Environment – high frequency (RF/microwave) 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 (VSS) - system level communication/radar simulator EM solvers: AXIEM (3D planar electromagnetic simulator) – 3D planar, Method of Moments Analyst (Arbitrary 3D FEM simulator) – full 3D, finite element method with adaptive meshing AntSyn – Antenna Synthesis Through Integrand Software Acquisition EMX Continuum PCELLS
COSEDA Technologies	COSIDE
Dassault Systèmes	Through CST acquisition CST Studio Suite CST MICROWAVE STUDIO (CST MWS) CST EM STUDIO (CST EMS) CST PARTICLE STUDIO (CST PS) CST CABLE STUDIO (CST CS) CST PCB STUDIO (CST PCBS) CST BOARDCHECK CST MPHYSICS STUDIO (CST MPS) - electronics cooling CST DESIGN STUDIO (CST DS) IdEM generation of macromodels
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 (no installation required)
Emerson Electric	Through National Instruments Acquisition National Instruments Electronics Workbench Group NI Multisim - schematic capture and simulation NI Ultiboard - printed circuit board layout editor
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 (the basic circuit analyses common to SPICE modeling systems + stability analysis) Delta Design - software tool for electronic design automation (EDA)
IC Manage	GDP Design & IP Management, Envision Design Progress Analytics, Envision Verification Analytics, High Performance Computing
Ing.-Büro FRIEDRICH	TARGET 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
PathWave Design Keysight Technologies EDA division (formerly EEsof)	Platforms: PathWave Advanced Design System [2] – high frequency and high speed design PathWave EM Design (formerly EMPro and Antenna Modeling Design System) - 3D EM platform PathWave RFIC Design (formerly GoldenGate which supersedes RF Design Environment) - RFIC/RF mixed signal simulator (Xpedion acquisition) PathWave Device Modeling (formerly IC-CAP), PathWave Model Builder (formerly MBP), PathWave Model QA (formerly MQA) - Device modeling and validation (all but IC-CAP from Accelicon acquisition) PathWave RF Synthesis (formerly Genesys) - RF and microwave design (Eagleware-Elanix acquisition) PathWave System Design (formerly SystemVue) - Electronic system-level design (Eagleware-Elanix acquisition) 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 Through Cliosoft Acquisition Keysight Design Data Management (formerly Cliosoft SOS) Keysight IP Management (formerly Cliosoft HUB) Keysight Visual Design Diff (formerly Cliosoft VDD)
Lauterbach	in-circuit debuggers (JTAG and non-JTAG) with optional trace functionality in-circuit emulators front-ends to debug virtual platforms for embedded software development (ESL)
Siemens Digital Industries Software Siemens EDA division (formerly Mentor Graphics)	acquired 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 (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 [3] 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 (Innoveda acquisition) 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 HDL Designer Series 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 (statistical) variation High-Sigma Monte Carlo—verification against high-sigma process (statistical) 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 (ECC), error detection codes (EDC), 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. Through UltraSoC Acquisition Tessent Embedded Analytics Through Avatar Integrated Systems Acquisition Aprisa-Place and route(PnR) systems Apogee Through OneSpin Solutions Acquisition 360 DV-Inspect 360 DV-Verify 360 DV-Certify 360 EC-FPGA 360 EC-ASIC 360 EC-RTL FMEDA Through Fractal Technologies Acquisition Solido Crosscheck (formerly Crossfire) Through InsightEDA Acquisition Insight Analyzer
VisualSim Architect (Mirabilis Design Systems Specification and Design Hardware Design Software Validation Power Exploration
MathWorks	For logical FPGA and ASIC designs Deep Learning HDL Toolbox - Prototype and deploy deep learning networks on FPGAs and SoCs DSP HDL Toolbox - Design digital signal processing applications for FPGAs, ASICs, and SoCs HDL Coder - Generate Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL code for FPGA and ASIC designs HDL Verifier - Test and verify Verilog and VHDL using HDL simulators and FPGA boards SoC Blockset - Design, analyze, and deploy hardware/software applications for AMD and Intel SoC devices Vision HDL Toolbox - Design image processing, video, and computer vision systems for FPGAs and ASICs Wireless HDL Toolbox - Design and implement wireless communications subsystems for FPGAs, ASICs, and SoCs For physical PCB and ASIC designs Antenna Toolbox - Design, analyze, and visualize antenna elements and antenna arrays Mixed-Signal Blockset - Design, analyze, and simulate analog and mixed-signal systems RF Blockset - Design and simulate RF systems RF PCB Toolbox - Perform electromagnetic analysis of printed circuit boards RF Toolbox - Design, model, and analyze networks of RF components SerDes Toolbox - Design SerDes systems and generate PAMn IBIS-AMI models for high-speed digital interconnects Signal Integrity Toolbox - Design, simulate, and analyze high-speed serial and parallel links
Novarm	DipTrace Schematic Editor PCB Design SPICE Simulator
Silvaco	SPICE 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 carga 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. Through Coupling Wave Solutions assets' Acquisition WaveIntegrity SiPEX Through Polyteda Cloud Acquisition PowerDRC/LVS - DRC/LVS physical verification Nefelus CMS
Synopsys	Cosmos Scope Custom Designer Design Compiler DFT Compiler DFTMAX compression Formality Hercules - physical verification HSIM HSPICE IC Compiler - place and route IC Validator NANOSIM OptoCompiler Physical Compiler Proteus OPC Protocol Analyzer (debugging tool) PrimeTime - static timing analysis Saber Sentaurus TCAD Spice explorer Synphony C Compiler - high-level synthesis TetraMAX ATPG VCS VIP XA Yield Explorer - yield management Viewlogic products Powerview (discontinued) Through Avant! Acquisition Astro - place and route Star-RCXT Through Magma Design Automation Acquisition FineSim SiliconSmart Through Synplicity Acquisition [4] Synplify Pro Through Terrain EDA Acquisition [5] Euclide (formerly VerIDE) Through Dorado Design Automation (Dorado DA) Acquisition ECO System Tweaker-T1 Timing ECO Tweaker-P1 Leakage Power ECO Tweaker-P2 Dynamic Power ECO Tweaker-C1 Clock ECO Tweaker-M1 Metal ECO Tweaker-F1 Functional ECO Recovery System Tweaker-A1 Area Recovery Tweaker-P1 Dynamic Power Recovery Tweaker-R1 Reliability Recovery Through Silicon Frontline Technology Acquisition PrimeESD Power Device WorkBench
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
Zuken	Cabling Designer Cadstar CR-5000 CR-8000 Visula

FPGA companies

Company	EDA products
Achronix	Achronix Tool Suite ACE
Altera (formerly Intel Programmable Solutions Group [6] ; Subsidiary of Intel)	Intel acquired Altera in 2015. Intel Quartus Prime (formerly Altera Quartus)
Dialog Semiconductor (Subsidiary of Renesas Electronics)	Dialog Semiconductor acquired Silego Technology Inc. in 2017. GreenPAK Designer
Lattice Semiconductor	Lattice Diamond iCEcube2
Microsemi (Subsidiary of Microchip Technology)	Microsemi acquired Actel in 2010. Libero
Xilinx (Subsidiary of AMD)	ISE Design Suite Xilinx Vivado

Electronics distribution companies

Company	EDA products
Digi-Key	Scheme-it - online EDA; developed by Aspen Labs (subsidiary of Arrow Electronics).
RS Components	DesignSpark PCB - free EDA software

Development communities

Community	EDA products
gEDA	gschem: schematics editor pcb: PCB layout editor gerbv: Gerber file viewer
KiCad (GPL)	eeschema - schematic capture PCBnew - PCB layout gerbview - Gerber viewer

Defunct companies

EDA companies that no longer exist

Analog Design Automation	acquired by Synopsys [7] in 2004 Creative Genius - Automated sizing of analog integrated circuits IP Explorer - High-dimensional visualization of analog performance tradeoffs
Ansoft Corporation	acquired by Ansys
Applicon	Acquired by Schlumberger in 1980.
Applied Wave Research	acquired by Cadence Design Systems Microwave Office Analog Office Visual System Simulator APLAC AXIEM
ARC International	acquired by Synopsys ARC VTOC
Automated Systems, Inc.	acquired by Cadence Design Systems [8] in 1990 PRANCE GT - Placement, Routing and Numerical Control Editing for PCB design and layout
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 PowerCentric - Clock tree synthesis and automatic clock gating Rubix - Physical optimization and automatic useful skew
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 CoFluent Studio CoFluent Reader
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 Cynthesizer
Gateway Design Automation	acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 1989 Verilog HDL Verilog-XL
IKOS Systems	acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2002 [16] NSIM - gate-level simulation accelerator HW Gemini - Verilog simulation accelerator product Voyager - VHDL simulation accelerator product
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] Verdi - automated debug system Debussy - debug modules Siloti - visibility enhancement solutions Certitude - Functional Qualification System Laker - Custom Layout System
Tanner EDA	acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2015 [18]
Valid Logic Systems	merged into Cadence [19]
Upverter	acquired by Altium in 2017
DAFCA	ClearBlue
Spectrum Software	closed in 2019 Micro-Cap
UniCAD	Acquired by CCT [20] (Cooper & Chyan Technology)

See also

• List of items in the category Electronic Design Automation companies
• Comparison of EDA software
• Cadence Design Systems: Acquisitions and mergers
• Synopsys: Acquisitions, mergers, spinoffs

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