EDA: Electronic Design Automation, electronic design automation.
Electronic design automation refers to the use of computer-aided design (CAD) software to complete the process of functional design, synthesis, verification, and physical design (including layout, wiring, layout, design rule checking, etc.) of very large-scale integrated circuit (VLSI) chips Design method.
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Under the influence of the Sino-US sweater war, domestic electronic products have been affected by many, including EDA tools. The previous MATLAB incident is a typical example.
Before there was no sweater war, most individuals and companies used foreign EDA tools, and few people asked about EDA tools in China.
Here is an inventory of domestic EDA companies (in no particular order).
1
BGI
Huada Jiutian, namely Beijing Huada Jiutian Technology Co., Ltd., website:
http://www.empyrean.com.cn/
Founded in 2009, it is committed to providing one-stop EDA and related services to the semiconductor industry . It is currently the largest and most powerful EDA leading enterprise in China.
In terms of EDA, BGI can provide analog/digital-analog hybrid IC design full-process solutions, digital SoC IC design and optimization solutions, dedicated EDA tools for wafer manufacturing, and flat-panel display (FPD) design full-process solutions. A world-leading leading technology.
Related services provided around EDA include wafer manufacturing engineering services and design support services, among which wafer manufacturing engineering services include PDK development, model extraction, and yield improvement big data analysis.
2
All-core smart manufacturing
All-Core Intelligent Manufacturing, namely All-Core Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Co., Ltd., website:
https://www.amedac.com/
Full core intellectual cause stand in September 2019 by the world's leading EDA company Synopsys, well-known venture capital and Wuyue Feng Hua Tai, Institute of Microelectronics jointly funded the establishment. The company has a registered capital of 100 million yuan, is headquartered in Hefei , and has branches in Shanghai and Beijing.
All-Core Smart Manufacturing has brought together a group of leading talents in the fields of EDA, wafer manufacturing and artificial intelligence, with an average working experience of more than 20 years, with expert knowledge covering the manufacturing industry chain, and experience in intelligent manufacturing.
All-Core Smart Manufacturing is committed to transforming the manufacturing industry through emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, and realizing the evolution from expert knowledge to artificial intelligence. Starting from EDA point tools such as process device simulation and computational lithography technology, in the future, it will be deployed to build a big data + artificial intelligence-driven integrated circuit intelligent manufacturing platform. All-core Smart Manufacturing has established a good cooperative relationship with scientific research institutes such as the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
3
Xinhua Zhang
Xinhua Zhangke, namely Xinhua Zhang Technology Co., Ltd., website:
https://www.x-epic.com/
Founded in March 2020 and headquartered in Nanjing , it is a domestic integrated electronic automation (EDA) intelligent software and system company based in China and facing the world.
Only a few months after its establishment, Xinhua Zhang has completed a billion-yuan financing, which is inseparable from the strength of the Xinhua Zhang team. It is understood that the core members of Xinhua Zhang are from international leading EDA, integrated circuit design, software and artificial intelligence companies, with an average of more than 20 years of experience in the industry.
In addition, the team can use a new path to develop and innovate EDA based on classic verification experience and technology, and integrate the latest artificial intelligence, machine learning and cloud based on the current most advanced software engineering methodology and high-performance hardware architecture. Computing and other cutting-edge technologies, design new software system architecture and algorithms, and create a new generation of EDA software and systems facing the future.
4
National Micro Group
China Micro Group, namely China Micro Holdings Co., Ltd., website:
http://www.smit.com.cn/gr/gr_introduction.html
China Micro Group originated in 1993 as a semiconductor holding group. Its business mainly covers security chip design and application, integrated circuit electronic design automation ("EDA") system development and application, FPGA rapid prototyping and simulation system development and application, and R&D and production of third-generation semiconductor products.
In 2018 , National Micro Group began to focus on the development and application of the entire process of chip design EDA system. The research content is to meet the needs of advanced technology and domestic high-end chips, and develop a full process EDA system with digital chip design and hardware simulation.
Shanghai National Microchip Semiconductor Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of National Micro Group, focuses on EDA R&D and design services. Shanghai Guowei Sierxin Technology Co., Ltd. ("Guowei Sierxin") is the industry's leading R&D, sales and design service provider of EDA tools for rapid prototyping and simulation systems.
5
Gelun Electronics
Gelun Electronics, namely Shanghai Gelun Electronics Co., Ltd., website:
https://www.khai-long.com/
Founded in 2010 , the company can provide high-end semiconductor device modeling, large-scale high-precision integrated circuit simulation and optimization, low-frequency noise testing and integrated semiconductor parameter testing solutions. The customer group covers most of the internationally renowned integrated circuit design and manufacturer.
Gelun Electronics is committed to improving the efficiency of high-end chip design tools under advanced semiconductor technology. It is one of the few domestic EDA companies that has reached the international first-class level of "point tools".
The company has a large number of EDA technologies and products with fully independent intellectual property rights, and is committed to creating a full-process EDA for memory design and realizing DTCO (Design Process Collaborative Optimization) innovative EDA solutions from data to simulation. The company acquired Beijing Broad Micro Technology at the end of 2019, and completed the Series A financing jointly led by Xingcheng Capital and Intel Capital in early 2020.
6
Litron EDA
Li Chuang EDA, namely Shenzhen Jia Li Chuang EDA, website:
https://www.lceda.cn/
Lichuang EDA is affiliated to Shenzhen Jia Lichuang, a company well known to many hardware engineers and enthusiasts.
Litron EDA is an efficient domestic PCB design tool, free forever.
More than one million free libraries have been created, and more than 1 million real-time updated components have been created, allowing you to focus more on design. You can also import your own commonly used package libraries and integrate Lichuang Mall’s component catalogs. Thanks to China’s leading components In the device self-operated mall, Litron EDA integrates more than 200,000 real-time updates and a sufficient inventory of component libraries.
7
Akas Microelectronics
Akasi Microelectronics, namely Shanghai Akasi Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., website:
https://www.arcas-da.com/
It was founded in May 2020 in Zhangjiang , Shanghai by a senior chip design automation (EDA) expert who returned from Silicon Valley . Its wholly-owned subsidiary, Chengdu Okasi Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., is located in Chengdu High-tech Zone. The core staff of the company come from internationally renowned EDA companies and chip design companies such as Cadence, Synopsys, Xilinx, etc., with an average of more than 15 years of experience in the global EDA industry, and are the principal researchers or managers of a number of well-known software tools in the industry.
The company's main business is the R&D and consulting of integrated circuit design automation systems (EDA) . Based on the latest EDA technology and combining the needs of local users, the company wholeheartedly serves China's independent chip design industry. At present, the company has successfully launched two formal verification tools.
8
Zobay Electronics
Ruobei Electronics, namely Qingdao Ruobei Electronics Co., Ltd., website:
http://www.robei.com/
Ruobei Electronics was established in January 2014 and is the only EDA company in Qingdao . Its founder once worked for an internationally renowned FPGA chip company and founded Ruobei after resigning and returning to China many years ago. Ruobei Electronics has created the only digital front-end EDA tool in China , a brand-new object-oriented visual chip design software that can support the design and verification of the integrated circuit front-end based on the Verilog language.
The Robei EDA tool has functions such as visual architecture design, core algorithm programming, automatic code generation, syntax checking, compilation simulation, and waveform viewing. After the design is completed, Verilog code can be automatically generated, which can be applied to the FPGA and ASIC design flow. The visual hierarchical design architecture allows engineers to build and program at the same time, which has the advantages of instantiation and intuitiveness, reducing errors, and saving code.
Chip design is different from software programming and more abstract. Robei EDA tool makes chip design simple and intuitive. At the same time, it is equipped with textbooks and experimental guides, as well as a large number of cases and video tutorials, which can greatly reduce the entry threshold for learning chip design and accelerate the design process . In 2015 and 2017, the company realized the verification of completely independent high-speed dynamic reconfigurable adaptive chips based on Robei EDA tools on 130nm and 40nm processes, respectively. Robei EDA software has users in more than 40 countries around the world, and the tools are compact and powerful.
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Xingxin Technology
Xingxin Technology, namely Hangzhou Xingxin Technology Co., Ltd., website:
http://www.phlexing.com/
Xingxin Technology is a domestic high-start, internationally competitive EDA and IP high-tech private enterprise. It has completely independent domestic intellectual property rights. It is committed to providing IC design companies with leading Signoff tool chains and solutions from traditional crafts to advanced crafts. Scheme . The company has R&D centers in Shanghai and Hangzhou.
The core team is led by well-known returned scientists. The team has an average of more than 20 years of experience in the field of EDA and chip design, and has led the research and development of many mainstream EDA tools, high-performance computing chips and low-power communication chips in the industry.
The Xingxin Signoff solution is oriented to the most cutting-edge chip design and process nodes, focusing on solving the bottleneck problems of integrated circuits in the era of 5G, artificial intelligence, big data, autonomous driving, and the Internet of Things, helping engineers find design vulnerabilities and defects as early as possible, and improving "PPAR" , Namely Power-Performance-Area-Reliability, improve chip design efficiency and speed up time to market.
10
Core and Semiconductor
Core and Semiconductor, namely Core and Semiconductor Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., website:
http://www.xpeedic.cn/
Founded in 2010 , Xinhe Semiconductor focuses on the research and development of electronic design automation EDA software, integrated passive device IPD and system-in-package SiP microsystems . Corewell mainly provides differentiated software products and chip miniaturization solutions for semiconductor chip design companies and system manufacturers, including high-speed digital design, IC packaging design, and RF analog mixed-signal design.
Among them, Xinhe's EDA products are mainly simulation, including high-speed simulation solutions, chip simulation solutions, advanced packaging simulation solutions, cloud platform simulation solutions, etc.
Xinhe Semiconductor is headquartered in Zhangjiang , Shanghai . On October 9, 2019, Xinhe announced the establishment of "Xinhe Semiconductor Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd." in Zhangjiang, Shanghai, and included Xinhe Technology under the name of Xinhe Semiconductor, and officially launched the new EDA software brand name "Xinhe" .
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Jiutongfang Microelectronics
Jiutongfang Microelectronics, namely Hubei Jiutongfang Microelectronics Co., Ltd., website:
http://www.ic9cube.com/
Jiutongfang Microelectronics, established in 2011 , is an international software company focusing on IC design services . The company has a core R&D team of 16 PhDs studying in the United States, covering senior architects and leading IC design experts in the global EDA field.
Jiutongfang provides complete IC process design tools, forming IC design full-process simulation capabilities including original IC circuit design, circuit principle simulation (ultra-large-scale IC circuit, RF circuit), and 3D electromagnetic field full-wave simulation. Product software is mainly used in integrated circuits, RFIC, high-speed interconnection SI, mobile phones, etc., covering communications, defense, electronics, electrical, automotive, medical and basic sciences.
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Core Vision
Core Vision, namely Beijing Core Vision Software Technology Co., Ltd., website:
http://www.cellixsoft.com/
Founded in 2002, Beijing Core Vision Software Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Core Vision") is known as the "first EDA share in China". It is a high-tech service company with IP core, EDA software and integrated circuit analysis and design platform as its core. . Provide integrated circuit analysis, integrated circuit design, integrated circuit EDA software licensing services to global customers.
Since its establishment, Core Vision has insisted on independent research and development of integrated circuit EDA software, and has developed 6 sets of EDA systems in total, with a total of more than 30 software, covering the entire process of integrated circuit process analysis, circuit analysis and intellectual property analysis and appraisal. Accumulatively issued more than 40,000 authorized certifications, the EDA software user group includes domestic and foreign chip design companies, research institutes, universities and intellectual property service organizations.
Relying on independent IP platform and integrated circuit design services of EDA software, Core Vision has successfully realized one-stop design services for multiple chips in the fields of industrial control, automotive electronics, security monitoring, network equipment, Internet of Things and smart hardware. The company is headquartered in Beijing, China, with business units in Baoding, Tianjin and Taiyuan.
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