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{| class="wikitable"

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! 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

  • EDAConnect

|-

|Arteris

|

Through 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-ST

|-

|Autodesk

|

  • 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 Lab)

|-

|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

|

  • COSIDE

|-

|Dassault Systèmes

|

Through 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 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 (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 FRIEDRICH

|

TARGET 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 Design<br />Keysight 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
  • TestWay Express
  • FabExpress
  • twDocumentor

|-

|VisualSim Architect (Mirabilis Design

  • Systems Specification and Design
  • Hardware Design
  • Software Validation
  • Power Exploration

|-

|MathWorks

|

For logical FPGA and ASIC designs

  • Deep Learning HDL Toolbox - Prototype and deploy deep learning networks on FPGAs and SoCs
  • DSP HDL Toolbox - Design digital signal processing applications for FPGAs, ASICs, and SoCs
  • HDL Coder - Generate Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL code for FPGA and ASIC designs
  • HDL Verifier - Test and verify Verilog and VHDL using HDL simulators and FPGA boards
  • SoC Blockset - Design, analyze, and deploy hardware/software applications for AMD and Intel SoC devices
  • Vision HDL Toolbox - Design image processing, video, and computer vision systems for FPGAs and ASICs
  • Wireless HDL Toolbox - Design and implement wireless communications subsystems for FPGAs, ASICs, and SoCs

For physical PCB and ASIC designs

  • Antenna Toolbox - Design, analyze, and visualize antenna elements and antenna arrays
  • Mixed-Signal Blockset - Design, analyze, and simulate analog and mixed-signal systems
  • RF Blockset - Design and simulate RF systems
  • RF PCB Toolbox - Perform electromagnetic analysis of printed circuit boards
  • RF Toolbox - Design, model, and analyze networks of RF components
  • SerDes Toolbox - Design SerDes systems and generate PAMn IBIS-AMI models for high-speed digital interconnects
  • Signal Integrity Toolbox - Design, simulate, and analyze high-speed serial and parallel links

|-

| Novarm

|

  • DipTrace
  • Schematic Editor
  • PCB Design
  • SPICE Simulator

|-

|Silvaco

|

SPICE modeling and analog & mixed-signal simulation

  • Utmost IV - Device characterization and SPICE modeling
  • SmartSpice - Analog circuit simulator
  • SmartSpice RF - Frequency and time domain RF circuit simulator
  • Harmony - Analog/mixed-signal circuit simulator
  • SmartView - Simulation waveform viewer

Custom IC CAD

  • Gateway - Schematic editor
  • Expert - Layout editor
  • Guardian - DRC/LVS/NET physical verification
  • Hipex - Full-chip parasitic extraction
  • Jivaro - Parasitic reduction and analysis
  • VarMan - High-sigma variability analysis

Interconnect modeling

  • Quest - 3D RF passive device modeling
  • Clever - Parasitic extractor for realistic 3D structures
  • Stellar - 3D physics-based parasitic extractor for carga cells
  • Exact - Full-chip LPE rule file generator

Library Platform

  • Cello - Standard cell library creation, migration and optimization
  • Viola - Standard cell library and I/O cell characterization
  • Liberty Analyzer - Analysis and validation of timing, power, noise and area data from characterization

TCAD

  • Victory Process - 2D/3D semiconductor process simulator
  • Victory Device - 2D/3D semiconductor device simulator
  • Virtual Wafer Fab - Emulation of wafer manufacturing to perform design-of-experiments and optimization.

Through Coupling Wave Solutions assets' Acquisition

  • WaveIntegrity
  • SiPEX

Through Polyteda Cloud Acquisition

  • PowerDRC/LVS - DRC/LVS physical verification
  • Nefelus CMS

|-

|Synopsys

|

  • Cosmos Scope
  • Custom Designer
  • Design Compiler
  • DFT Compiler
  • DFTMAX compression
  • Formality
  • Hercules - physical verification
  • HSIM
  • HSPICE
  • IC Compiler - place and route
  • IC Validator
  • NANOSIM
  • OptoCompiler
  • Physical Compiler
  • Proteus OPC
  • Protocol Analyzer (debugging tool)
  • 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 (discontinued)

Through Avant! Acquisition

  • Astro - place and route
  • Star-RCXT

Through Magma Design Automation Acquisition

  • FineSim
  • SiliconSmart

Through Synplicity Acquisition

  • Synplify Pro

Through Terrain EDA Acquisition

  • Euclide (formerly VerIDE)

Through Dorado Design Automation (Dorado DA) 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 (formerly Ansoft 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(PLM) Interface
  • Corporate Database Connection Interface
  • 3D View

|-

| Zuken

|

  • Cabling Designer
  • Cadstar
  • CR-5000
  • CR-8000
  • Visula

|-

|}

FPGA companies

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! Company !! EDA products

|-

| Achronix

|

  • Achronix Tool Suite
  • ACE

|-

| Altera<br /> (formerly Intel Programmable Solutions Group; Subsidiary of Intel)

| Intel acquired Altera in 2015.

  • Intel Quartus Prime (formerly Altera Quartus)

|-

| Dialog Semiconductor<br /> (Subsidiary of Renesas Electronics)

| Dialog Semiconductor acquired Silego Technology Inc. in 2017.

  • GreenPAK Designer

|-

| Lattice Semiconductor

|

  • Lattice Diamond
  • iCEcube2

|-

| Microsemi<br />(Subsidiary of Microchip Technology)

| Microsemi acquired Actel in 2010.

  • Libero

|-

| Xilinx<br /> (Subsidiary of AMD)

|

  • ISE Design Suite
  • Xilinx Vivado

|-

|}

Electronics distribution companies

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! Company !! EDA products

|-

| DigiKey

|

  • Scheme-it - online EDA; developed by Aspen Labs (subsidiary of Arrow Electronics).

|-

| RS Components

|

  • DesignSpark PCB - free EDA software

|-

|}

Development communities

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! Community !! EDA products

|-

|-

| gEDA

|

  • gschem: schematics editor
  • pcb: PCB layout editor
  • gerbv: Gerber file viewer

|-

|KiCad (GPL)

|

  • eeschema - schematic capture
  • PCBnew - PCB layout
  • gerbview - Gerber viewer

|-

| Ringdove EDA (GPL)

|

  • sch-rnd: schematics editor
  • pcb-rnd: PCB layout editor
  • camv-rnd: Gerber (and other CAM) file viewer
  • route-rnd: PCB autorouter

|-

|}

Defunct companies

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"

|+ EDA companies that no longer exist

|-

| Analog Design Automation || acquired by Synopsys in 2004

  • Creative Genius - Automated sizing of analog integrated circuits
  • IP Explorer - High-dimensional visualization of analog performance tradeoffs

|-

| Ansoft Corporation || acquired by Ansys

|-

| Applicon || Acquired by Schlumberger in 1980.

|-

| Applied Wave Research || acquired by Cadence Design Systems

  • Microwave Office
  • Analog Office
  • Visual System Simulator
  • APLAC
  • AXIEM

|-

| ARC International || acquired by Synopsys

  • ARC VTOC

|-

|Automated Systems, Inc. || acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 1990

  • PRANCE GT - Placement, Routing and Numerical Control Editing for PCB design and layout

|-

| Avant! Corporation || acquired by Synopsys in 2002. Avant! itself resulted from the merger of ArcSys and Integrated Silicon Systems on November 27, 1995. It acquired Anagram on September 27, 1996, Meta-Software on October 29, 1996, FrontLine Design Automation on November 27, 1996, and Nexsyn Design Technology on December 31, 1996.

|-

| Azuro || acquired by Cadence in 2011

  • PowerCentric - Clock tree synthesis and automatic clock gating
  • Rubix - Physical optimization and automatic useful skew

|-

| CadSoft Computer || acquired by Autodesk in 2016

|-

| Calma || merged into Valid, then Cadence Design Systems

|-|-

| Ciranova || Acquired by Synopsys in 2012

|-

| CoFluent Design || acquired by Intel in 2011

  • CoFluent Studio
  • CoFluent Reader

|-

| Computervision || Merged into Prime Computer in 1988. Computervision Electrical Design software purchased by INCASES in 1994.

|-

| Coware || acquired by Synopsys in 2010

|-

| CST -– Computer Simulation Technology || acquired by Dassault Systèmes in 2016

|-

| Daisy Systems || merged with Cadnetix in 1988

|-

| Denali Software || acquired by Cadence Design Systems in Q2 of 2010

|-

| ECAD, Inc. || merged with SDA Systems in 1987 to create Cadence

|-

| Forte Design Systems || acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2014

  • Cynthesizer

|-

| Gateway Design Automation || acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 1989

  • Verilog HDL
  • Verilog-XL

|-

| IKOS Systems || acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2002

  • NSIM - gate-level simulation accelerator HW
  • Gemini - Verilog simulation accelerator product
  • Voyager - VHDL simulation accelerator product

|-

| Interactive Image Technologies or Electronics Workbench || acquired by National Instruments in 2005

|-

| LogicVision || acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2009

|-

| Magma Design Automation || acquired by Synopsys in 2012

|-

| NanGate || acquired by Silvaco in 2018

|-

| Nimbic (formerly Physware)||acquired by Mentor in 2014

  • Verdi - automated debug system
  • Debussy - debug modules
  • Siloti - visibility enhancement solutions
  • Certitude - Functional Qualification System
  • Laker - Custom Layout System

|-

| Tanner EDA|| acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2015

|-

| Valid Logic Systems || merged into Cadence

|-

| Upverter

| acquired by Altium in 2017

|-

| DAFCA

|

  • ClearBlue

|-

| Spectrum Software

| closed in 2019

  • Micro-Cap

|-

| UniCAD

| Acquired by CCT (Cooper & Chyan Technology)

|-

|}

See also

  • List of items in the category Electronic Design Automation companies
  • Comparison of EDA software
  • Cadence Design Systems: Acquisitions and mergers
  • Synopsys: Acquisitions, mergers, spinoffs

References