Saturday, July 12, 2008

VLSI Softwares

Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor Graphics are the major EDA software tool vendors. Xilinx, Altera, Actel holds the major market share in FPGA/CPLD. Most of the FPGA Vendors have their own EDA Tool to program their FPGA/CPLD or products.

Simulators(Verilog and VHDL)

ModelSim® SE

HDL Designer

Cadence NC

Iverilog

Synthesis tools

Precision RTL

Leonardo Spectrum

FPGA Advantage


Physical Design tools

Tanner

MAGIC Layout Editor

Alliance CAD Tools

OCEAN
& nbsp; Irsim

Gtkwave

PSPICE / Hspice


Free VLSI Tools

MAGIC Layout Editor

Alliance CAD Tools

OCEAN

Iverilog

Irsim

Gtkwave

ISE Webpack

FPGA Development

Xilinx ISE™ WebPACK™ Software

Altera Quartus® II Software


Physical Design tools list are yet to be added

The List does not stop here. Many new companies are emerging and hence there is a very stiff competition in the number of EDA company's products.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

could u plz give some details abt MICROWIND3 package?