Design Web

Created the first EDA package, the CAD ABC, way back in 1983, when there were no other PC-based EDA systems. Later products include CAD 1000, CompCAD and the EE Designer series, some milestones.

Visionics - EDWinXP and DocOne EDA Tools

Instead of bulky files, printed manuals and hundreds of other documents combining full technical documentation of your electronic product, keep it all on a single CD.

DocOne -A powerful extension of EDWinXP capabilities

The main product EDWinXP 1.80 suite comprise of Schematic Editor, Simulators - Mixed Mode Simulator and SPICE based simulator EDSpice, PCB Layout Editor - Create the PCB Layout, Fabrication Manager - generate Manufacturing output files for Photoplotter, NC Drill etc. Thermal Analyzer - check for hotspots on the board, Electromagnetic Analyzer (with Signal Integrity and Field analyzer) - check for electromagnetic effects.

ASIC and SoC for networking, communication and connectivity applications. ASIX was founded in May 1995 in Hsinchu Science Park.

ASIX Electronics Corporation - Fabless Semiconductors

• Embedded Networking Solution: Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
• Bus Connecting Solution: USB 1.1, USB 2.0
• Integrated SoC Solution

The AX11025, Single Chip Microcontroller with TCP/IP and 10/100M Fast Ethernet MAC/PHY, is a System-on-Chip (SoC) solution which offers a high performance embedded micro controller and rich communication peripherals for wide varieties of application which need access to the LAN or Internet.

Powerful integrated Electronic Design Suites for Electronic Engineers. It includes Schematic Capture Software, Spice Simulation and PCB Design Software.

AutoTRAX EDA and Design Express

"They have all the features you expect and need to rapidly and easily take your design from conception through to production. Its in-built hierarchical project manager lets you perform both top-down and bottom-up design and reuse design components and sub-systems."

From Hyper Embedded - Microcontroller ASIC and EDA

"Once you have created your schematic capture design you can rapidly simulate its analog performance using the built-in virtual instruments such as oscilloscopes and signal generators."

Custom IC layout, Schematic Capture, Languages such as VHDL and Verilog. An Open-source Electronic Design Automation, EDA.

Electric VLSI Design System EDA

Electric EDA of Static Free Software written by Steven M. Rubin

"Electric has many analysis tools, including design-rule checking, simulation, and network comparison. Electric has many synthesis tools, including routing, compaction, silicon compilation, PLA generation, and compensation."

From Hyper Embedded - Microcontroller ASIC and EDA

Read More -

• Electric is a sophisticated electrical CAD system gnu
• Electric Wiki, documenting the Electric VLSI Design System
• Electric VLSI Design System - Oracle-Sun

Designed and written by Jean-Pierre Charras, a researcher at LIS (Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux) and a teacher in IUT de Saint Martin d'Hères.(France), in the field of electrical engineering and image processing.

Kicad is an open source (GPL) software for the creation of electronic schematic diagrams and printed circuit board artwork.

Kicad Open Source EDA

KiCad consists of ..

• kicad - the project manager
• eeschema - the schematic editor.
• cvpcb - the footprint selector for components used in the circuit design.
• pcbnew - the PCB layout program.
• gerbview - the Gerber (photoplotter documents) viewer.

From Design Gopher - Electronic Product Development

A Korean Company with ASIC Chip design and Software Development Expertise. Some products developed include 3GPP compliant Turbo decoder ASIC/IP core and 200MHz bandwidth 5GS/s equiv. Sampling rate Digital Storage Oscilloscope.

Software and DSP technology - softDSP

Two Channel 200MHz, 5GS/s equiv. sampling PC based Digital Storage Oscilloscope.

SDS 200A - PC based DSO - softDSP

SDS 200A combines all the traditional benefits of the DSO from 200MHz bandwidth, 5 GS/s equivalent sampling to advanced triggering options (Logic, Pulse and Delay) with characteristics such as higher true color (32bits) waveform grading, and automated data transfer to Microsoft Excel and Word. Interface is Universal Serial Bus(USB).

SDS 200A/SoftScope makes an inexpensive PC based oscilloscope perform close to a stand-alone digital oscilloscope.

Max. sample rate Realtime sampling: 100MS/s using one channel, 50MS/s using two channels Equivalent sampling:5GS/s

Bandwidth 200MHz(-3dB); Single shot bandwidth: 50MHz ; 20MHz bandwidth limiting function is available.

Vertical resolution 9 bits/channel; Gain range 10mV ~ 10V/div @ x1 probe and 100mV ~ 100V/div @ x10 probe.

Products for the hand-held mobile device market. Platforms include ArcticLink for Customer Specific Standard Product (CSSP) solution in the display and connectivity subsystems of Smartphones, Smartbooks, Netbooks, Mobile Internet Devices. PolarPro for the interconnect and system logic requirements of power sensitive and portable applications.

QuickLogic - Flexible Semiconductor Platforms

ViaLink - CSSP - Combination of hard-wired application-specific logic and a flexible programmable fabric for customer-specific applications.

ViaLinks are electrically programmable, so that customers can quickly customize the QuickLogic platforms/products to meet customer-specific requirements.

Semiconductor IP supplier, Fast and low power 32-bit RISC microprocessor cores, Customizable processor and DSP core for SOC Design.

Tensilica - Processor and DSP cores for SOC

Dataplane Processor Units (DPUs) - Performance intensive DSP and embedded RISC processing functions.

Some Products Include -

• HiFi Audio processor - the industry's most popular audio core processor with over 50 software packages for portable electronics and home theaters.
• VDO Video processor - optimized for SD video with software for H.264 and other popular video standards.

General Information -

DSP could be used in Audio, Video, 3D, Photos and Communications related functions.

RISC Processor used in networking, embedded control, encryption, speedy computing.

"Fritzing is an EDA - Electronic Design Automation software with a low entry barrier, suited for the needs of designers and artists. It uses the metaphor of the breadboard.."

Fritzing is Product Design or EDA in Simplicity

"in the spirit of Processing and Arduino, developing a tool that allows users to document their Arduino and other electronic-based prototypes, and to create a PCB layout for manufacturing."

Fritzing Starter Kit to start learning Arduino

Related Reading -

• Processing - open source programming language and environment
• Arduino - open-source electronics prototyping platform.

McCAD modules take the designer through the complete design cycle: Schematic capture, Simulation (analog & digital), Printed Circuit Board layout, Autorouting and Gerber generation for board fabrication.

McCAD - Schematic capture to PCB

• Schematic Capture
• Analog/Digital Simulation
• Printed Circuit Design
• Autorouting
• Gerber Translation & other utilities

McCAD 3-SPICE based on the latest version (3F5) of Berkeley's SPICE 3 and permits interactive mixed mode circuit simulation.