Design Tasks Product Listings
Click here to view a listing of categories of EDA tools supporting a wide spectrum of design tasks, including : Design Entry, Functional Verification, Physical Design, Physical Verification, Synthesis, Testing, and Miscellaneous tools. Select a design task to see a listing of vendors and tools supporting the task.

Design entry encapsulates a circuit description. Functional verification confirms that the functionality of a model of a circuit conforms to the intended/specified behavior, by simulation or by formal methods. Physical design creates the mask set of a custom IC, plans, partitions, places and routes a cell-based ASIC, maps a netlist into an FPGA, or places and routes parts on a PC board. Synthesis tools translate abstract descriptions of functionality into optimal physical realizations, creating netlists that can be passed to a place-and-route tool.

Physical verification ensures that masks sets conform to design rules, that the intended functionality is not compromised by layout-induced parasitics, crosstalk, and other effects. Tools for testing generate test patterns to verify that a fabricated IC is free of process-induced faults. Others tools modify the design to incorporate additional hardware supporting built-in self-testing of the chip, or testing by an external source. Miscellaneous point tools support a variety of ancillary activities, e.g. the design of embedded systems, and translation of languages and databases.

Technologies Product Listings
Click here to view a listing of technologies exploited by EDA tools. Then select a technology to see a listing of vendors and tools. The listing includes custom ICs, cell-based ASICS, masked gated arrays, FPGAs, PLDs, MCMs, MEMs, PC boards, and more.

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Michael D. Ciletti, Consulting Editor for our EDA Tools database, is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is the author of the text Modeling, Synthesis, and Rapid Prototyping with the Verilog HDL, published by Prentice-Hall, March 1999. He has presented several short courses on the Verilog HDL and synthesis to designers in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

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