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Existing companies
Company Agilent Technologies EEsof EDA division Atrenta Inc.Agnisys Inc. Aldec, Inc. AltiumAnalog Rails, Inc.
Ansoft CorporationApplied Wave ResearchAzuroBerkeley Design AutomationCadence Design
SystemsCadSoftCoFluent DesignDAFCAEREMEXDenali Software, Inc. Dolphin IntegrationDuolog Technologies
[1]
Forte Design SystemsImpulse Accelerated TechnologiesIntellitechJEDA TechnologiesKicadMAGILLEM
[2]
Magma Design Automation, Inc. Mentor GraphicsNational Instruments Electronics Workbench GroupNovarm,
Ltd. Obsidian Software Physware, Inc. Sankhya Technologies, Private Limited. Seetrax CAE Ltd [3]SpringSoft, Inc.
Silvaco InternationalSigrity, Inc. Simberian Inc. [4]Simucad Design Automation, Inc. Solido Design
AutomationSundance DSP Inc. [5]Synopsys, Inc. Tanner EDA [6]Veridae Systems, Inc. [7]Ucamco [8]Visionics
[9]
Zeni EDA [10]Zuken Inc. EDA products
• Advanced Design System (ADS)
• ADS Momentum - method of moments
• EMPro (formerly Antenna Modeling Design System (AMDS))
• GoldenGate RFIC Simulator (superseded RF Design Environment (RFDE))
• IC-CAP (pronounced "icecap" or "eye-cee-cap") device modeling software and systems
• Genesys
• SystemVue
Note: Stand alone product formerly known as Electromagnetic Design System (EMDS) has been superseded by
FEM Element running under the ADS and EMPro platforms
• SpyGlass® Product Family for RTL Verification & Optimization
• 1Team® Product Family for Design Capture & Exploration
• IDesignSpec Register Management tool
• IVerifySpec Verification Management tool
• ActiveHDL
• Riviera
• A-Lint
• Altium Designer (Step up from Protel)
• P-CAD
• Autotrax
• Analog Rails Design Environment. (Automated analog design.)
HFSS (High-Frequency Structure Simulation)
• Microwave Office
• Analog Office
• Visual System Simulator
• APLAC
• AXIEM
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• Cynthesizer
C compiler tools for FPGA devices
• Impulse C
• 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
• C/C++/SystemC Model Validation Tool Suite
• OCP Validation Suite
• TLM2.0 Validation Suite
• GPL
• eeschema
• PCBnew
• gerbview
• MPA : MAGILLEM PLATFORM ASSEMBLY RTL(Block capture and netlist generation in VHDL, Verilog,
System Verilog)
• MPA : MAGILLEM PLATFORM ASSEMBLY ESL(System C netlist, cosimulation setup with RTL)
• MRV : MAGILLEM Register View (Register Capture and Hw/Sw Code generation)
• MIP : MAGILLEM IP PACKAGER (Test and Convert IP files into IEEE 1685 IP-XACT FORMAT)
• MGS : MAGILLEM Generator Studio (Write and Debug IEEE 1685 IP-XACT generators for CAD flows)
• RevEnge : MAGILLEM Design System Cartography and Obsolescence for ASIC/FPGA/PCB/Embedded
• Talus: Digital implementation
• Titan: Analog/mixed-signal
• FineSim: Circuit simulation
• Quartz: Physical verification
• SiliconSmart: Library characterization
• Quartz Formal: Formal Verification
• 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)
• Olympus-SoC - place and route
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• Gateway
• SmartSpice
• SmartSpiceRF
• Harmony
• Custom IC CAD
• Expert
• Guardian
• HIPEX
• Interconnect modeling
• QUEST
• CLEVER
• STELLAR
• EXACT
• Digital CAD
• SILOS-X
• HyperFault
• AccuCell
• AccuCore
• Variation Designer - analog/mixed-signal and custom IC design
• Monte Carlo+ package
• PVT+ package
• Proximity+ package
• PARS [12] (Parallel Application from Rapid Simulation)- Application generated automatically from Simulink(R)
model for target multi-DSP/FPGA hardware.
• EDA tool for generating deployable application directly from model.
• 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
• TetraMAX ATPG
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• VCS
• XA
• Yield Explorer - yield management
• T-Spice Pro : includes Schematic capture, Simulation, Waveform Analysis Platform
• HiPer Design : includes L-Edit layout editor, DRC & LVS Verification tools
• Advanced Layout Acceleration tools : includes Schematic-Driven Layout Routing, Differential Pair and Current
Mirror device generation
• MEMS design Tools : Special Curve tools and import/export utilities that provide a full design kit for MEMS
• Clarus Post-Silicon Validator: automatically build on-chip observation network
• Clarus Prototyper: Multi-FPGA Prototype Debug Suite
• Clarus Workbench: FPGA Debug Suite
• UCAM: A CAM system for printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing
• Integr8tor: An automated CAM system for printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing
• EDWinXP
• SE [13] - Schematic Editor
• SPICE [14] - SPICE Simulator
• PDT [15] - Physical Design Tool
• VERI & HVERI [16] - Physical Verification
• PE [17] - Parasitic Extraction
• SI [18] - Signal Integrity
• Cabling Designer
• Cadstar
• Comoran
• CR5000
• Visula
This list is incomplete.
Calma [20]
merged into Valid, then Cadence Design Systems
Daisy Systems
Synplicity [21]
Acquired by Synopsys
References
[1] http:/ / www. duolog. com/ products
[2] http:/ / www. magillem. com/ eda/
[3] http:/ / www. seetrax. com
[4] http:/ / www. simberian. com
[5] http:/ / www. sundancedsp. com
[6] http:/ / www. tannereda. com
[7] http:/ / www. veridae. com
[8] http:/ / www. ucamco. com
[9] http:/ / www. visionics. a. se
[10] http:/ / www. zeni-eda. com
[11] http:/ / www. xldesigner. com
[12] http:/ / www. sundancedsp. com/ development-tools/ pars
[13] http:/ / www. zeni-eda. com/ se. html
[14] http:/ / www. zeni-eda. com/ spice. html
[15] http:/ / www. zeni-eda. com/ pdt. html
[16] http:/ / www. zeni-eda. com/ veri. html
[17] http:/ / www. zeni-eda. com/ pe. html
[18] http:/ / www. zeni-eda. com/ si. html
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2010-05-07.
[20] Carl Machover (1998). "About This Issue". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 20 (2): 3–6.
[21] "Synopsys acquires Synplicity-What does it mean?" (http:/ / www. eetimes. com/ rss/ showArticle. jhtml?articleID=206905027).
Eetimes.com. . Retrieved 2010-05-07.
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articleid=301031& printerfriendly=1). 0.edacafe.com. 2006-05-22. . Retrieved 2010-05-07.
• The list of existing companies was compiled partly from the 2006-DAC exhibitor's list.
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