List of EDA companies

A list of electronic design automation (EDA) companies.

Existing companies

Company	EDA products
Agilent Technologies EEsof EDA division	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) - Device modeling and validation (MBP, MQA from Accelicon acquisition) Genesys - RF and microwave design (Eagleware-Elanix acquisition) SystemVue - Electronic system-level design (Eagleware-Elanix acquisition) EM solvers: Momentum – 3D planar, frequency domain, available with the ADS, Genesys, and GoldenGate platforms FEM (formerly Electromagnetic Design System) – full 3D, frequency domain, available with the ADS and EMPro platforms FDTD – full 3D, time domain, available with the EMPro platform
Agnisys, Inc.	IDesignSpec Register Management tool IVerifySpec Verification Management tool
Aldec, Inc.	ActiveHDL Riviera A-Lint
Altium	Altium Designer (Step up from Protel) P-CAD (Ceased. Former Accel EDA from Accel Technologies) Autotrax
"Analog Rails".	Analog Rails Premium - Complete analog/mixed-signal creation platform with automatic analog place and route and optimization. Includes all manual capabilities of Analog Rails Basic. Analog Rails Basic - Full-featured manual editor for schematic and layout creation.
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
Azuro	PowerCentric - Clock tree synthesis and automatic clock gating Rubix - Physical optimization and automatic useful skew
Berkeley Design Automation	Analog FastSPICE - circuit simulator Noise Analysis Option - device noise analyzer RF FastSPICE - periodic analyzer PLL Noise Analyzer
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 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 Daignostics Encounter - Design Implementation Encounter - QRC (Extraction & Checking) Encounter - Nanoroute Allegro - PC/MCM design Incisive - functional verification Design for Manufacturing SPECCTRA Autorouter Orcad Denali Software products Spectra 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
CadSoft	EAGLE - PCB Design
CoFluent Design	CoFluent Studio CoFluent Reader
DAFCA	ClearBlue
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
Schindler & Schill GmbH (EasyLogix)	PCB-Investigator - Professional ECAD Workstation for PCB development GerberLogix - Free Gerber Viewer Online-Gerber-Viewer - Free Gerber Viewer (no installation required)
Forte Design Systems	Cynthesizer
gEDA	gschem: schematics editor pcb: PCB layout editor gerbv: Gerber file viewer
Ing.-Büro FRIEDRICH	TARGET 3001! - PCB, ASIC and Cable Harness Design
Intellitech	Nebula Silicon Debugger - Interactive program which connects to Synopsys VCS and Cadence Design Systems NCSim for pre-silicon validation with cross-reference during connection to real silicon
JEDA Technologies	C/C++/SystemC Model Validation Tool Suite OCP Validation Suite TLM2.0 Validation Suite
KiCad (GPL)	eeschema - schematic capture PCBnew - PCB layout gerbview - Gerber viewer
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)
Mentor Graphics	ADiT - Nanometer IC Design: fast SPICE ADVance MS - 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. 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 Vista - ESL Design: system debug Visual Elite - ESL Design: system integration 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
National Instruments	National Instruments Electronics Workbench Group NI Multisim - schematic capture and simulation NI Ultiboard - printed circuit board layout editor AWR Corporation products
Nimbic, Inc. (formerly Physware)	PhysWAVE PhysAPEX
Silvaco International	Analog & mixed signal: UTMOST III UTMOST IV SPAYN Gateway SmartSpice SmartSpiceRF Harmony Custom IC CAD: Expert Guardian HIPEX Interconnect modeling: QUEST CLEVER STELLAR EXACT Digital CAD: SILOS-X HyperFault AccuCell AccuCore
Solido Design Automation	Variation Designer - analog/mixed-signal and custom IC design Monte Carlo+ package PVT+ package Proximity+ package
SpringSoft, Inc.	Verdi - automated debug system Debussy - debug modules Siloti - visibility enhancement solutions Certitude - Functional Qualification System Laker - Custom Layout System
Sunstone Circuits	PCB123 PCB Design Software (FREE))
Synopsys, Inc.	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 PrimeTime - static timing analysis Saber Sentaurus TCAD Spice explorer Star-RCXT Synphony C Compiler - high-level synthesis TetraMAX ATPG VCS XA Yield Explorer - yield management
Zuken, Inc.	Cabling Designer Cadstar CR-5000 CR-8000 Visula

EDA Companies that no longer exist

EDA companies that no longer exist (as of 2011)

Ansoft Corporation	acquired by Ansys HFSS (High-Frequency Structure Simulation)
Applied Wave Research	acquired by National Instruments Microwave Office Analog Office Visual System Simulator APLAC AXIEM
Avant! Corporation	acquired by Synopsys in 2002
Calma	merged into Valid, then Cadence Design Systems
Coware	acquired by Synopsys in March 2010.
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
Interactive Image Technologies or Electronics Workbench	acquired by National Instruments in 2005
LogicVision Inc.	acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2009
Magma Design Automation, Inc.	acquired by Synopsys in 2012
OrCAD	acquired by Cadence in 1999
Protel	renamed as Altium
Synplicity	acquired by Synopsys
Valid Logic Systems	merged into Cadence

See also

• List of items in the category Electronic Design Automation companies.
• Comparison of EDA software