List of EDA companies
Encyclopedia
Existing companies
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| Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies , or Agilent, is a company that designs and manufactures electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation... EEsof EEsof EEsof is an EDA company founded in 1983 by an entrepreneur, Charles J. Abronson, and a former Compact Software employee, Bill Childs.-History:... EDA division |
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| Agnisys Agnisys Agnisys Inc. is a developer of electronic design automation tools for the design and verification of IP, System-on-Chip, ASIC and FPGA. In May 2009, Agnisys released a new class of application that converted a Word processor into an EDA tool. The application is called IDesignSpec, and it manages... , Inc. |
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| Aldec Aldec - Overview :Aldec provides software and hardware used in creation and verification of digital designs targeting FPGA and ASIC technologies. Headquartered in Henderson, Nevada, Aldec also has offices/development centers in Europe, Japan, Israel, India, China, Taiwan, Poland and Ukraine.As a member... , Inc. |
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| Altium |
Altium Designer Altium Designer is an EDA software package for printed circuit board, FPGA and embedded software design, and associated library and release management automation... (Step up from Protel) Autotrax AutoTRAX EDA is a Windows XP/Vista schematic design/ PCB layout program with built in Spice simulator and 3D part and board visualization. It is not to be confused with the simple PCB CAD package originally developed by Protel in the 1980s and 1990s and which is still available as a free download... |
| Analog Rails, Inc. |
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| Ansys |
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| Atrenta, Inc. |
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| Azuro Azuro Azuro, Inc. is an electronic design automation software company. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California with a development office in Cambridge, England.... |
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| Berkeley Design Automation Berkeley Design Automation - Overview :Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. is an electronic design automation software company, headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company develops software for advanced analog/RF integrated circuit verification. Founded in 2003, the company is funded by Woodside Fund, Bessemer... |
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| Cadence Design Systems Cadence Design Systems Cadence Design Systems, Inc is an electronic design automation software and engineering services company, founded in 1988 by the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD, Inc... |
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| Cadint |
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| CadSoft |
Eagle (program) EAGLE by Cadsoft is a flexible and expandable EDA schematic capture, PCB layout, autorouter and CAM program widely used since 1988.- Schematic capture :... - PCB Design |
| Downstream Technologies |
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| CLK Design Automation |
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| CoFluent Design CoFluent Design CoFluent Design is a supplier of electronic system level modeling and simulation software. CoFluent is headquartered in Nantes, France, and has sales offices in Paris, France, San Jose, California, and Tokyo, Japan.-History:... |
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| DAFCA DAFCA DAFCA, Inc. is an EDA software company focused on post-silicon validation, debug, and in-system bring-up of integrated circuits. DAFCA's tools allow design teams to incorporate patented and compact reconfigurable instrumentation IP into their devices, pre-silicon, in order to observe, discover, and... |
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| Denali Software Denali Software Denali Software, Inc. is an American software company, based in Sunnyvale, California. The company produces electronic design automation software, intellectual property and design cores and platforms for memory, other standard interfaces and system-on-chip design and verification. It has its... , Inc. |
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| Dolphin Integration Dolphin Integration Dolphin Integration is a French software company, based in Grenoble, France. The company produces electronic design automation software, silicon intellectual property of audio codecs, mems converters, regulators, memories and standard cell libraries, as well as Custom Fabless services... |
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| Duolog Technologies |
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| EMA Design Automation |
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| EREMEX |
TopoR TopoR is a Russian topological router for printed circuit boards laid out in any compatible systems that use the PCAD ASCII PCB, PADS ASCII PCB, or DSN format.- History :... - topological router for printed circuit boards laid out in any compatible systems that use the PCAD ASCII PCB, PADS ASCII PCB or DSN format. |
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| Forte Design Systems Forte Design Systems Forte Design Systems, Inc. Forte is a provider of high-level synthesis software products, also known as ESL synthesis or behavioral synthesis that enable design at a higher level of abstraction. Forte's main product is Cynthesizer.... |
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| Gauda, Inc. |
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| gEDA GEDA The term gEDA refers to two things:# A set of software applications used for electronic design released under the GPL. As such, gEDA is an ECAD or EDA application suite. gEDA is mostly oriented towards printed circuit board design... |
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| Impulse Accelerated Technologies |
Impulse C Impulse C is a subset of the C programming language combined with a C-compatible function library supporting parallel programming, in particular for programming of applications targeting FPGA devices... - C compiler tools for FPGA devices |
| Intellitech Intellitech Intellitech Corp. is an electronic design automation software company. It is headquartered in Durham, New Hampshire with a development office in Bangalore, India and sales/support offices in Mountain View, California, Ottawa , and Munich, Germany. The company was incorporated in the US in 1988... |
Synopsys Synopsys, Inc. is one of the largest companies in the Electronic Design Automation industry. Synopsys' first and best-known product is Design Compiler, a logic-synthesis tool. Synopsys offers a wide range of other products used in the design of an application-specific integrated circuit... VCS and Cadence Design Systems Cadence Design Systems Cadence Design Systems, Inc is an electronic design automation software and engineering services company, founded in 1988 by the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD, Inc... NCSim for pre-silicon validation with cross-reference during connection to real silicon |
| Jasper Design Automation, Inc. |
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| Intercept Technology Inc |
Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies , or Agilent, is a company that designs and manufactures electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation... ADS; Translators from Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create... Expedition, Pads, Board Station, Altium Limited Altium Limited Altium Limited is an Australian based software company that provides PC-based electronics design software for engineers. Founded in 1985, Altium has headquarters in Sydney and sales offices in the United States, Europe, Japan, China, and resellers in all other major markets... Protel, Designer, plus many more. Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies , or Agilent, is a company that designs and manufactures electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation... ADS; Translators from Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create... Design Architect, DxDesigner, ePD, LMS, Translators from Altium Limited Altium Limited Altium Limited is an Australian based software company that provides PC-based electronics design software for engineers. Founded in 1985, Altium has headquarters in Sydney and sales offices in the United States, Europe, Japan, China, and resellers in all other major markets... Protel, Designer, Cadence Design Systems Cadence Design Systems Cadence Design Systems, Inc is an electronic design automation software and engineering services company, founded in 1988 by the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD, Inc... Orcad, Orcad CIS (Edif format) Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create... , Altium Limited Altium Limited Altium Limited is an Australian based software company that provides PC-based electronics design software for engineers. Founded in 1985, Altium has headquarters in Sydney and sales offices in the United States, Europe, Japan, China, and resellers in all other major markets... , Cadence Design Systems Cadence Design Systems Cadence Design Systems, Inc is an electronic design automation software and engineering services company, founded in 1988 by the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD, Inc... |
| JEDA Technologies JEDA Technologies JEDA Technologies, Inc. is a provider of software products in the front-end of electronic design automation industry, specifically in ESL verification automation. JEDA products are applied to design models written in C, C++, SystemC for quality measurement, checking and improvement... |
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| Kicad Kicad KiCad is an open source software suite for electronic design automation . It facilitates the design of schematics for electronic circuits and their conversion to PCBs design. KiCad was developed by Jean-Pierre Charras, and features an integrated environment for schematic capture and PCB layout... (GPL) |
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| Lauterbach |
JTAG Joint Test Action Group is the common name for what was later standardized as the IEEE 1149.1 Standard Test Access Port and Boundary-Scan Architecture. It was initially devised for testing printed circuit boards using boundary scan and is still widely used for this application.Today JTAG is also... and non-JTAG) with optional trace Tracing (software) In software engineering, tracing is a specialized use of logging to record information about a program's execution. This information is typically used by programmers for debugging purposes, and additionally, depending on the type and detail of information contained in a trace log, by experienced... functionality Embedded software Embedded software is computer software that plays an integral role in the electronics it is supplied with.Embedded software's principal role is not Information technology , but rather the interaction with the physical world. It's written for machines that are not, first and foremost, computers... development (ESL Electronic system level Electronic system level design and verification is an emerging electronic design methodology that focuses on the higher abstraction level concerns first and foremost. The term Electronic System Level or ESL Design was first defined by Gartner Dataquest, a EDA-industry-analysis firm, on February... ) |
| Lorentz Solution |
Electromagnetic field solver Electromagnetic field solvers are specialized programs that solve Maxwell's equations directly. They form a part of the field of electronic design automation, or EDA, and are commonly used in the design of integrated circuits and printed circuit boards... (Patented) |
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| Magma Design Automation Magma Design Automation Magma Design Automation is a software company in the electronic design automation industry. The company was founded in 1997 and maintains headquarters in San Jose, California, with facilities throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India.... , Inc. |
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| Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create... |
Place and route Place and route is a stage in the design of printed circuit boards, integrated circuits, and field-programmable gate arrays. As implied by the name, it is composed of two steps, placement and routing. The first step, placement, involves deciding where to place all electronic components, circuitry,... Through LogicVision Acquisition
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| MunEDA GmbH |
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| National Instruments National Instruments National Instruments Corporation, or NI , is an American company with over 5,000 employees and direct operations in 41 countries. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it is a producer of automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software... |
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| Novarm, Ltd. |
DipTrace DipTrace is EDA software for creating schematic diagrams and printed circuit boards. The first version of DipTrace was released in August, 2004. The latest version as of September 2011 is DipTrace version 2.2. Interface has been translated to many languages and new language can be added by user.... - Schematic capture, PCB layout, 3D PCB Modeling |
| Physware Physware Physware develops Electronic Design Automation software. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, United States.... , Inc. |
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| Pristine Signals |
IBIS and ICM model Validation and Qualification |
| PULSIC |
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| Sankhya Technologies, Ltd. |
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| Seetrax CAE, Ltd. |
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| Sigrity Sigrity Sigrity is a supplier of software for IC package physical design and for analyzing power integrity, signal integrity and design stage electromagnetic interference... , Inc. |
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| Silvaco International | TCAD process and device simulation |
| Simberian, Inc. |
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| Simucad Design Automation SIMUCAD Simucad is a provider of circuit simulation and CAD software tools used in the design of analog, mixed-signal, and RF integrated circuits. The company was incorporated in Delaware in June 2004 as a spin-off from Silvaco Data Systems. Simucad acquired ownership all of Silvaco's simulation and CAD... , Inc. |
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Custom IC CAD:
Interconnect modeling:
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| Solido Design Automation Solido Design Automation Solido Design Automation Inc. is an electronic design automation software company, headquartered in San Jose, California. The company develops software for analog/mixed-signal and custom integrated circuits... |
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| SpringSoft SpringSoft SpringSoft is a software company that develops cutting edge VLSI design and debugging software. The company was founded with a grant from the Taiwanese National Science Council in February 1996. In 1997, SpringSoft established the company Novas Software in Silicon Valley to market, distribute,... , Inc. |
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| Sundance DSP, Inc. |
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| Symica |
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| Synopsys Synopsys Synopsys, Inc. is one of the largest companies in the Electronic Design Automation industry. Synopsys' first and best-known product is Design Compiler, a logic-synthesis tool. Synopsys offers a wide range of other products used in the design of an application-specific integrated circuit... , Inc. |
Place and route Place and route is a stage in the design of printed circuit boards, integrated circuits, and field-programmable gate arrays. As implied by the name, it is composed of two steps, placement and routing. The first step, placement, involves deciding where to place all electronic components, circuitry,... Place and route Place and route is a stage in the design of printed circuit boards, integrated circuits, and field-programmable gate arrays. As implied by the name, it is composed of two steps, placement and routing. The first step, placement, involves deciding where to place all electronic components, circuitry,... Static timing analysis Static Timing Analysis is a method of computing the expected timing of a digital circuit without requiring simulation.High-performance integrated circuits have traditionally been characterized by the clock frequency at which they operate... |
| Tanner EDA |
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| Target Compiler Technologies |
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| Ucamco |
Printed circuit board A printed circuit board, or PCB, is used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways, tracks or signal traces etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate. It is also referred to as printed wiring board or etched wiring... manufacturing Printed circuit board A printed circuit board, or PCB, is used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways, tracks or signal traces etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate. It is also referred to as printed wiring board or etched wiring... manufacturing |
| Veridae Systems, Inc. |
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| Verific Design Automation |
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| Visionics |
Edwinxp EDWinXP or Electronic Design for Windows is a commercially available PCB design integrated CAD/CAE package. An electronic design engineer can use the computerized tools provided in EDWinXP to create an electronic circuit, design the PCB and fabricate PCBs... |
| Zeni EDA |
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| Zuken Zuken is a Japanese multinational corporation, specializing in software and consulting services for end-to-end electrical and electronic engineering. Zuken came into existence as a pioneer in the development of CAD systems in Japan to contribute to electronics manufacturing... , Inc. |
Cadstar CADSTAR is a Windows based EDA software tool for designing and creating schematic diagrams and printed circuit boards. It provides engineers with a competitively priced, scalable solution for designing simple or complex, multilayer PCBs... |
EDA Companies that no longer exist
| Accel Technologies | Sold to Altium (former Protel) in 2000 |
| AmmoCore | liquidation under Chapter 7 Chapter 7, Title 11, United States Code Chapter 7 of the Title 11 of the United States Code governs the process of liquidation under the bankruptcy laws of the United States... in 2007 |
| Ansoft Corporation | acquired by Ansys HFSS (High-Frequency Structure Simulation) |
| Antrim | acquired by Cadence in 2002 |
| Apache Design Solutions | Now Apache Design, Inc., a subsidiary of ANSYS, Inc. (2011) |
| Applied Wave Research Applied Wave Research AWR Corporation is an electronic design automation software company, founded by Dr. Joseph E. Pekarek, with Ted A. Miracco and Dr. Stephen A. Maas. The company, formerly known as Applied Wave Research, Inc., is a National Instruments company... |
acquired by National Instruments
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| Arcadia Design Systems, Inc | closed doors sometime in early 00's |
| Avant! Corporation | acquired by Synopsys in 2002 |
| Calma Calma Calma Company, based in Sunnyvale, California, was, between 1965 and 1988, a vendor of digitizers and minicomputer-based graphics systems targeted at the cartographic and electronic, mechanical and architectural design markets.... |
merged into Valid, then Cadence Design Systems Cadence Design Systems Cadence Design Systems, Inc is an electronic design automation software and engineering services company, founded in 1988 by the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD, Inc... |
| Coware Coware CoWare, now part of Synopsys, was a supplier of platform-driven electronic system level design software and services.CoWare was headquartered in San Jose, California, and had offices around the world, major R&D offices in Belgium, Germany and India.... |
acquired by Synopsys Synopsys Synopsys, Inc. is one of the largest companies in the Electronic Design Automation industry. Synopsys' first and best-known product is Design Compiler, a logic-synthesis tool. Synopsys offers a wide range of other products used in the design of an application-specific integrated circuit... in March of 2010. |
| Daisy Systems Daisy Systems Daisy Systems Corporation incorporated in 1981 in Mountain View, California, was a computer-aided engineering, CAE, company, a pioneer in the Electronic design automation industry.... |
merged with Cadnetix in 1988 |
| Denali | acquired by Cadence Design Systems Cadence Design Systems Cadence Design Systems, Inc is an electronic design automation software and engineering services company, founded in 1988 by the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD, Inc... in Q2 of 2010 |
| ECAD, Inc. ECAD, Inc. ECAD, Inc., based in Santa Clara, California, was an early vendor of electronic design automation software. The company was best known for its design rule checking product Dracula, but also produced IC layout and PC layout software. Eventually, in a merger with SDA, it became Cadence Design... |
merged with SDA Systems in 1987 to create Cadence |
| Gambit Automated Design | acquired by Synopsys Synopsys Synopsys, Inc. is one of the largest companies in the Electronic Design Automation industry. Synopsys' first and best-known product is Design Compiler, a logic-synthesis tool. Synopsys offers a wide range of other products used in the design of an application-specific integrated circuit... in 1999 |
| GateRocket, Inc. | ceased operations in 2011
FPGA verification and debug:
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| Interactive Image Technologies or Electronics Workbench Electronics Workbench The National Instruments Electronics Workbench Group is responsible for innovating the electronic circuit design software NI Multisim and NI Ultiboard, which was previously a Canada-based company that first produced MultiSIM, and integrated ULTIboard with it.... |
acquired by National Instruments National Instruments National Instruments Corporation, or NI , is an American company with over 5,000 employees and direct operations in 41 countries. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it is a producer of automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software... in 2005 |
| LogicVision LogicVision LogicVision, Inc. was an electronic design automation company, offering chip, board and system-level Design for Test solutions and support to ASIC vendors based in San Jose, California, United States. Founded in 1992, it was acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2009. Their embedded test, BIST and yield... Inc. |
acquired by Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create... in 2009 |
| Microsim Corp. | acquired by OrCAD OrCAD OrCAD is a proprietary software tool suite used primarily for electronic design automation. The software is used mainly to create electronic prints for manufacturing of printed circuit boards, by electronic design engineers and electronic technicians to manufacture electronic schematics.The name... in 1998 |
| Obsidian Software | acquired by ARM ARM Holdings ARM Holdings plc is a British multinational semiconductor and software company headquartered in Cambridge. Its largest business is in processors, although it also designs, licenses and sells software development tools under the RealView and KEIL brands, systems and platforms, system-on-a-chip... in 2011 |
| OrCAD OrCAD OrCAD is a proprietary software tool suite used primarily for electronic design automation. The software is used mainly to create electronic prints for manufacturing of printed circuit boards, by electronic design engineers and electronic technicians to manufacture electronic schematics.The name... |
acquired by Cadence in 1999 |
| Protel | renamed as Altium |
| Silicon Valley Research | delisted and closed Nov. 16, 1998, with limited support continued until 2004 |
| Synplicity Synplicity Synplicity Inc. was a supplier of software solutions for design of programmable logic devices used for communications, military/aerospace, consumer, semiconductor, computer and other electronic systems. Synplicity’s tools provided logic synthesis, physical synthesis, and verification functions for... |
acquired by Synopsys |
| Tera Systems | liquidated in 2006 |
| Valid Logic Systems Valid Logic Systems Valid Logic Systems was one of the first commercial EDA electronic design automation companies. It was founded in the early 1980s, along with Daisy Systems Corporation and Mentor Graphics, collectively known as DMV.... |
merged into Cadence |
See also
- List of items in the category Electronic Design Automation companies.
- Comparison of EDA softwareComparison of EDA softwareComparison of Electronic Design Automation software-Free and Open Source Software :-Proprietary software:-Comparison of EDA packages:Note: ODB++ support is drawn partly from lists by Artwork Conversion Software and Mentor Graphics...