A comprehensive list of electronic design automation (EDA) Companies can be compiled from lists of vendors-exhibitors of Design Automation Conference (DAC) held annually for more than 30 years. EDA Companies that no longer exist (merged or died) are listed in a separate category at the end of this page.
Existing companies
Existing EDA companies (as of 2006)
| Company |
EDA product(s) |
| Agilent Technologies EEosf EDA division |
- Advanced Design System (ADS)
- GoldenGate RFIC Simulator
- IC-CAP (pronounced “icecap” or “eye-cee-cap”) device modeling software and systems
- Momentum
- Electromagnetic Design System (EMDS)
- Genesys
- SystemVue
- RF Design Environment (RFDE)
- Antenna Modeling Design System (AMDS)
|
| Aldec, Inc. |
|
| Altium |
- Altium Designer (Step up from Protel)
- P-CAD
- Autotrax
|
| Ansoft Corporation |
HFSS (High-Frequency Structure Simulation) |
| Applied Wave Research |
Microwave Office |
| Azuro |
PowerCentric |
| Bluespec, Inc. |
? |
| Cadence Design Systems |
- Virtuoso - IC layout
- Encounter - Digital IC design
- Allegro - PC/MCM design
- Incisive - functional verification
- Design for Manufacturing
|
| Denali Software, Inc. |
- Spectra
- PureSpec
- MMAV
- Databahn
- Blueprint
|
| Impulse Accelerated Technologies |
C compiler tools for FPGA devices
|
| LogicVision, Inc. |
- 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
|
| Magma Design Automation, Inc. |
- QuickCap
- Blast Fusion
- Finesim
- Talus
|
| Mentor Graphics |
- ADiT - (IC Nanometer Design: fast SPICE)
- ADVance MS - (IC Nanometer 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 - (IC Nanometer Design)
- Eldo - (IC Nanometer Design: SPICE simulator)
- Eldo RF - (IC Nanometer Design: SPICE simulator)
- Expedition - (PCB design software)
- IP - (intellectual property now part of embedded systems division)
- ModelSim LE - (IC Nanometer Design: digital design and simulation. Linux-based simulator with Dataflow Window and Waveform Compare.)
- ModelSim PE - (IC Nanometer Design: digital design and simulation. Windows-based simulator for VHDL, Verilog, or mixed-language simulation environments.)
- ModelSim SE - (IC Nanometer 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)
- 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 -
- System Architect - (ESL Design: system analysis)
- Vista - (ESL Design: system debug)
- Visual Elite - (ESL Design: system integration)
|
| MOSIS |
? |
| Nallatech |
? |
| Novas Software, Inc. |
- Verdi automated debug system
- Debussy debug modules
- Siloti visibility enhancement solutions
|
| Silvaco International |
TCAD process and device simulation |
| Simucad Design Automation, Inc. |
- Analog & mixed signal
- UTMOST III
- UTMOST IV
- SPAYN
- Gateway
- SmartSpice
- SmartSpiceRF
- Harmony
- Custom IC CAD
- Interconnect modeling
- QUEST
- CLEVER
- STELLAR
- EXACT
- Digital CAD
- SILOS-X
- HyperFault
- AccuCell
- AccuCore
|
| Synopsys, Inc. |
- Design Compiler
- DFT Compiler
- DFT MAX compression
- TetraMAX ATPG
- Hercules - physical verification
- Physical Compiler
- Astro
- IC Compiler
- VCS
|
| Synplicity, Inc. |
- FPGA Solutions
- DSP Solutions
- ASIC Verification Solutions
|
| Zuken Inc. |
- Cabling Designer
- Cadstar
- Comoran
- CR5000
- Visula
|
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EDA Companies that no longer exist
EDA companies that no longer exist (as of 2006)
| Antrim |
aptivia |
acquired by Cadence in 2002 |
| Avant! Corporation |
- Apollo
- Hercules
- H-SPICE
- StarRC
|
merged into Synopsys in 2002
|
| Calma |
? |
merged into Valid, then Cadence Design Systems |
| Daisy Systems |
|
|
| ECAD, Inc. |
Dracula - DRC |
merged with SDA Systems in 1987 to create Cadence |
| OrCAD |
|
acquired by Cadence in 1999 |
| Protel |
? |
renamed as Altium |
| Valid Logic Systems |
? |
merged into Cadence |
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