List of EDA companies


A list of notable electronic design automation companies.

Existing companies

Software companies

CompanyEDA products
Aldec
  • Active-HDL
  • HES-DVM
  • HES
  • Riviera-PRO
  • ALINT-PRO
  • Spec-TRACER
  • TySOM
Altium
  • Altium Develop
  • * Altium Designer - Schematic Capture, PCB Design and Simulation
  • * Cloud Workspace - Optional Cloud Repository for Design Data, including Schematics, PCBs, BOMs
  • * Embedded Version Control - All Designs saved to Cloud Workspace Automatically Version Controlled  
  • * MCAD CoDesigner - Real-time 3D-Model Synchronization Between ECAD/MCAD Teams
  • * Requirements Portal - Requirements Declarations, Tracking and Verification Application
  • * BOM Portal - Component Sourcing and Procurement Application with Manageable Releases
  • * SPICE Simulation - Embedded in Schematic Capture Capability
  • * DC Power Network Analysis - RGB Heatmapping of Current Density and Voltage Drop for Power Electronics
  • Altium Agile
  • * Altium Develop Features
  • * Additional Administrative Controls
  • Protel PCB
  • P-CAD
  • Autotrax
  • EasyTrax
  • Through Upverter Acquisition
    • Upverter - online EDA
    • * Schematic Capture
    • * PCB Layout
    • * System Design Tool
    Through Perception Software Acquisition
    • EDAConnect
    ArterisThrough 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
  • 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
    Through Integrand Software Acquisition
    • EMX
    • Continuum
    • PCELLS
    Through Arm Artisan Foundation IP Business Acquisition
    • Artisan Memory Compilers
    Through ChipStack Acquisition
    • ChipStack MentalModelAgent
    • ChipStack FormalAgent
    • ChipStack UnitSimAgent
    COSEDA Technologies
  • COSIDE
  • Dassault SystèmesThrough 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
    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
  • Emerson ElectricThrough National Instruments Acquisition
    Empyrean Technology
  • Empyrean Aether
  • 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
    PathWave DesignKeysight Technologies 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
    Through Cliosoft Acquisition
    • Keysight Design Data Management
    • Keysight IP Management
    • Keysight Visual Design Diff
    Through Ansys PowerArtist Acquisition
    • Keysight PowerArtist: RTL Design for Power Platform
    Lauterbach
  • in-circuit debuggers with optional trace functionality
  • in-circuit emulators
  • front-ends to debug virtual platforms for embedded software development
  • Siemens / Siemens Digital Industries Software
  • Questa One
  • Through Mentor Graphics Acquisition
    • 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
    • *
    • 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.
    Through UltraSoC Acquisition
    • Tessent Embedded Analytics
    Through Avatar Integrated Systems Acquisition
    • Aprisa-Place and route 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
    Through InsightEDA Acquisition
    • Insight Analyzer
    Through Altair Engineering Acquisition
    • HyperSpice
    • Through RunTime Design Automation Acquisition
    • * Altair FlowTracer
    • Through Polliwog Acquisition
    • * Altair 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
    • ** 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
    • * Altair PSIM
    • Through Metrics Design Automation Acquisition
    • * Altair DSim
    Through DownStream Technologies Acquisition
    • BluePrint-PCB
    • DFMStream
    • CAM350
    Through Excellicon Acquisition
    • ConMan
    • ConCert
    • ConTree
    • ConStruct
    Through ASTER Technologies Acquisition
    • QuadView
    • DfMExpress
    • TestWay Express
    • FabExpress
    • twDocumentor
    VisualSim Architect
  • 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
  • Through Avant! Acquisition
    Through Magma Design Automation Acquisition
    • FineSim
    • SiliconSmart
    Through Synplicity Acquisition
    • Synplify Pro
    Through Terrain EDA Acquisition
    • Euclide
    Through Dorado Design Automation 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
    Through Ansys Acquisition
    • Ansys HFSS - High-Frequency Structure Simulation
    • Apache Design, Inc. products:
    • * 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
    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