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 Altium (Subsidiary of Renesas Electronics) Altium Develop Altium Designer - Schematic Capture, PCB Design and Simulation Cloud Workspace - Optional Cloud Repository (No Storage Limit) 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 (including Altium Designer) Additional Administrative Controls (SSO, Private Server Options, Workspace Folder-Level Permissions, GovCloud Capabilities, Support for 6+ Concurrent Users) 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 EDAConnectArterisThrough 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

Through Cycuity Acquisition RADIX RADIX-S RADIX-M RADIX-STAutodesk 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 LabAutodesk 123D apps, Autodesk)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

Through Arm Artisan Foundation IP Business Acquisition Artisan Memory Compilers

Through ChipStack Acquisition ChipStack MentalModelAgent ChipStack FormalAgent ChipStack UnitSimAgent COSEDA Technologies COSIDEDassault SystèmesThrough 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 macromodelsEasyEDA 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 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 (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 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 (formerly EEsof) Platforms: PathWave Advanced Design System – 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)

Through Ansys PowerArtist Acquisition Keysight PowerArtist: RTL Design for Power Platform 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 / 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 (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 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

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 (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 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