A collection of EDA and CAD stuff

EDA: Electronic Design Automation. CAD: Computer Aided Design. Whatever you call it, one of the things I do around here is take care of our tool collection. The emphasis here is on CAD for design of electronic systems, although a few links to traditional mechanical CAD may be present.

Schematic Capture and PCB Layout

Listed here are tools for schematic capture and printed circuit board, and some related tools. Only tools running on Unix are listed.

Advanced CAM Technologies, Inc.
Home of the CAM350 family of PCB CAM tools, which do really work. Don't ship gerber without it!
Bartels
Cooper & Chyan Technology
gEDA, the GNU EDA project, has a schematic capture tool that is comming along nicely, and a PCB layout tool early in development.
Intercept Technologies
Their Pantheon tool looks interesting - if anyone's used it, please tell me about it.
Mentor Graphics Corporation.
[Supportnet] [Application Notes] [Supportnet QuickSearch] [TechNotes Browse] [Mentor Graphics User's Group]
Viewlogic Systems, Inc. Home Page

Verilog

Open Verilog International
The industry organization that promotes verilog and guides future developments.
Free Model Foundation
A not-for-profit organization dedicated to Free simulation and synthesis models in VHDL, Verilog, and IBIS. Many models are distributed under the GNU Public License.
Comp.lang.verilog archive.
Hosted by Silicon Logic Engineering.
IVC (International Verilog Conference)
Verilog Synthesis Interoperability (standard 1364.1) working group at EDA.org.

Free Verilog Tools

Since Free Software is always preferable over proprietary closed-source software, we list those first.

Dinotrace, an X-11 waveform viewer which understands Verilog Value Change Dumps, ASCII, and other trace formats.
GtkWave, a digital waveform viewer based on Gtk+-1.2.
Icarus Verilog, a Verilog simulation and synthesis tool.
Ver, a structural verilog compiler.

Verilog Simulators

Chronologic's VCS.
FrontLine's PureSpeed simulator with interpreted/compiled/cycle-based versions.
InterHDL's Viper.
Fintronic's FinSim - interpreted, compiled, and cycle-based.
Model Technology's V-System mixed Verilog and VHDL simulator
Pragmagic C Software's Pver interactive verilog. FTP Site.
Simucad.
The Silos III simulator
VeriBEST's verilog.
Wellspring's Veriwell.
Also distributed by SynaptiCAD or somthing like that.

Logic synthesizers

Exemplar Logic has the Leonardo and Galileo tools for FPGA synthesis.
Synplicity's synplify
Synopsys' family of tools are a de facto industry standard, but if you have to ask, you can't afford them.
Quicklogic's QuickWorks

Verilog-Related Tools

Doulos Verilog and VHDL training courses, model of the month, tip of the month, etc.
SimTech, makers of the VeriCov test coverage tool and others.
Williamette HDL Verilog traning and reference information. (Formerly Sylvan Technology)
X-Tek's X-HDL Verilog/VHDL translator.

Other related tools

Design Acceleration, Inc. Makers of the SignalScan DX tool for digital and analog simulation results analysis. Also related tools.
SynaptiCAD Waveform analysis and test generation tools.
Veritools, makers of the Undertow waveform viewer, Vdump, VeriPower, and other tools.

Last modified: Thu Sep 23 14:02:39 EDT 1999