Electronic design automation

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Electronic design automation (EDA) is used to refer to the category of tools for designing and producing electronic systems ranging from printed circuit boards (PCBs) to integrated circuits. This is sometimes referred to as ECAD (Electronic Computer Aided Design).

The term EDA is also used as an umbrella term for computer-aided engineering, computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing of electronics in the discipline of electrical engineering. This usage probably originates in the IEEE Design Automation Technical Committee.

EDA has rapidly increased in importance with the continuous scaling of semiconductor technology. (See: Moore's Law.)

Table of contents

1 EDA Companies
2 External links
3 Related articles

EDA Companies

Agilent Technologies (spin-off of Hewlett-Packard)
Cadence Design Systems
Magma Design Automation
Mentor Graphics
Silvaco International
Synopsys
- Avanti Corporation (merged into Synopsys)
Verisity
- Axis Systems (merged into Verisity)
Xilinx

External links

EDA Consortium
EDA Industry Working Groups - Non-Profit standards organisation
EDA Cafe - Commercial web site trying to serve as a portal to the EDA industry
DAC - The Design Automation Conference is a premier event for Electronic Design Automation