EDA stands for Electronic Design Automation, which refers to a design method that uses computer-aided design (CAD) software to complete the functional design, synthesis, verification, and physical design (including layout, wiring, layout, design rule checking, etc.) processes of Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit (VLSI) chips.
EDA is an essential part of chip IC design and is an advanced form of a widely used technology that is part of the upstream industry of chip manufacturing, covering all processes of IC design, wiring, verification and simulation, etc. EDA is known as the “mother of all chips” in the industry. Here we list Top 15 China Electronic Design Automation(EDA) companies.
Empyrean
| Established time | 2009-05-26 |
| Location | Beijing,China |
| Website | https://www.empyrean-tech.com/ |
Company profile
Empyrean Technology, founded in 2009, is an EDA and services provider to the global semiconductor industry.
In the EDA domain, Empyrean Technology provides complete solution for analog design, digital SoC solution, complete solution for flat panel display design and foundry EDA solution, and provides EDA related services such as foundry design enablement services.
Empyrean is headquartered in Beijing, with major R&D centers in Nanjing, Chengdu, Shanghai and Shenzhen in China.
Main business and products
Complete Solution for Analog Design
Digital SoC Design Solution
Complete Solution for Flat Panel Display Design
Foundry EDA Solution
X-EPIC
| Established time | 2020-03-11 |
| Location | Nanjing,Jiangsu,China |
| Website | https://www.x-epic.cn/index.html#/en |
Company profile
X-EPIC, or Accelerating EDA Pioneer Innovation Center, is a company that gathers the top elites and technology talents of the EDA (or Electronic Design Automation) industry globally. Theor solution targets reshaping the EDA technology to do it more intelligently and smartly by laying on Intelligent Debug, Intelligent Compiler, Intelligent Cockpit, and Intelligent Cloud Native as the technological cornerstones.
And on top of them, solution covers the following seven aspects of the verification, Hardware Emulation System, FPGA-based Prototyping, Smart Scenario Stimulus, Formal Verification, Logic Simulation, System Debug and Verification Cloud, which therefore provide the comprehensive verification solution to our customers.
Main business and products
Intelligent Debug, Intelligent Compiler, Intelligent Cockpit, and Intelligent Cloud Native are the technological cornerstones of the X-EPIC’s FusionVerify™ Platform, covering Hardware Emulation, FPGA-based Prototyping, Smart Scenario Stimulus, Formal Verification, Logic Simulation, System Debug and Verification Cloud.
SMIT
| Established time | 2002-01-04 |
| Location | Shenzhen,China |
| Website | https://www.smit.com.cn/engr |
Company profile
SMIT Group Limited (“SMIT Group”) is a semiconductor holding company originated in 1993. Its business mainly covers development and production for design and application of security chip , products and solutions of Intelligent sensing and the third generation semiconductor product etc.
They mainly focus on the security chip and its application, within this field SMIT Group incubated a number of excellent enterprises, some of which have been listed on A-share market. SMIT Group is the wholly-owned subsidiary of SMIT Holdings Limited which listed on the main board of Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2016 (Stock Code: 02239).
Main business and products
Product
IC Solution
CAM
Flexible Force Sensing
AI Edge Computing Server
EDA
Arcas
| Established time | 2016-01 |
| Location | Shanghai,China |
| Website | https://www.arcas-da.com/EN/home.html |
Company profile
Shanghai Arcas Microelectronics Technology Co. Ltd. was founded by senior electronic design automation (EDA) experts from Silicon Valley and is now located in Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park.
The company’s main business is R&d and consulting of integrated circuit design automation systems (EDA). Based on the latest EDA technology, the company is dedicated to serving the Chinese chip design industry in line with the needs of local users. Currently, the company has successfully launched two formal verification tools.
Main business and products
AveMC
AveCEC
Primarius
| Established time | 2010-03-18 |
| Location | Shanghai,China |
| Website | http://www.khai-long.com/ |
Company profile
Since its establishment in 2010, Primarius’s founding team has been guided by the concept of “Design for Yield (DFY) to enhance the competitiveness of IC design and manufacturing” to conduct forward-looking technology research and development and product layout, carry out EDA process innovation mainly focusing on the characteristics of the development of China’s IC industry, promote in-depth and efficient linkage in the field of IC design and manufacturing, and improve the overall technical level and market competitiveness of China’s IC industry.Since its inception, Primarius has been focusing on the independent design and research and development of EDA tools.
Main business and products
Design EDA
Fab EDA
Testing solution
Engineering service
Gowin
| Established time | 2014-01-03 |
| Location | Guangzhou,China |
| Website | http://www.gowinsemi.com/ |
Company profile
Founded in 2014, GOWIN Semiconductor Corp., headquartered with major R&D in China, has the vision to accelerate customer innovation world wide with our programmable solutions. They focus on optimizing their products and removing barriers for customers using programmable logic devices. They commitment to technology and quality enables customers to reduce the total cost of ownership from using FPGA on their production boards. Their offerings include a broad portfolio of programmable logic devices, design software, intellectual property (IP) cores, reference designs, and development kits. They strive to serve customers in the consumer, industrial, communication, medical, and automotive markets worldwide.
Main business and products
broad portfolio of programmable logic devices, design software, intellectual property (IP) cores, reference designs, and development kits.
Arora V SRAM Based FPGAs
LittleBee Flash Based FPGAs
Arora SRAM Based FPGAs
GoBridge ASSP
GOWIN ® EDA
EXCEEDA
| Established time | 2019-11-11 |
| Location | Beijing, China |
| Website | https://www.exceeda.cn/en |
Company profile
Beijing EXCEEDA Technology Co., Ltd. is an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software company incubated by Tsinghua University. It aims to create advanced EDA technologies and tools for 3D parasitic extraction and high-performance passive circuit simulation, supporting IC foundries, fabless and research institutes worldwide.
Main business and products
SuperCap
EDA
MicroScape
| Established time | 2009-08-18 |
| Location | Tianjin,China |
| Website | http://www.microscapes.com.cn |
Company profile
MircoScape Technology Co., Ltd is engaged in professional EDA software services and EDA tool customized development business. The company team has a deep EDA technical background, a deep understanding of the current difficult problems in IC design, and provides powerful technical solutions. The founding team of the company has nearly 20 years of experience in EDA development, marketing and operations, and has unique technical advantages in many fields such as parasitic parameter extraction, map verification, OpenAccess platform software development, PDK development and automatic generation.
Main business and products
Plumb
Barde
Tuta
Scout
Xcal
Memory Compiler
Helmet
Shield
ICFM
VGDS&VGE
DPW
annex
Semitronix
| Established time | 2003-08-12 |
| Location | hangzhou, Zhejiang, China |
| Website | http://www.semitronix.com/?cur_lang=en |
Company profile
Semitronix Corporation is a leading supplier of characterization and yield improvement solutions encompassing software, hardware, and services for the semiconductor industry, which has numerous successful cases covering multiple integrated circuit process nodes.
Main business and products
EDA Software
SmtCell
TCMagic
ATCompiler
ICSpider
Dense Array
DataExp
WAT Tester
Yield Improvement Service
Deepoly
| Established time | 2016-06-13 |
| Location | Beijing, China |
| Website | https://www.deepoly.com/home/ |
Company profile
DeePoly Technology was established in 2016 and is composed of senior Chinese FPGA chip and algorithm experts. The core team has rich experience in multimedia processing, heterogeneous system architecture design, EDA, etc. DeePoly Technology aims to become a leading supplier of video and image processing solutions and IP solutions, empowering 4K/8K video processing and Metaverse applications.
Main business and products
GIF2WebP
JPEG2WebP Solution
HEIF Coding Solution
JPEG2JPEG Solution
Deployment Solution
Cellix
| Established time | 2010-07-16 |
| Location | Tianjin, China |
| Website | http://www.cellixsoft.com/en/ |
Company profile
Founded in 2002, Cellixsoft Corporation is a high-tech service company basing on IP core, EDA software and IC analysis and design platform. Cellix provides global customers with IP and EDA authorization, technology analysis, IP protection and ASIC/SoC turnkey services. Cellix established the professional IC technology analysis and patent analysis laboratory. At present, the minimum process node of IC that can be analyzed is 7nm FinFET, which is an international leading level.
Cellix has adhered to the independent research and development of EDA software.Up to now, 6 sets of EDA systems and more than 30 softwares have been developed, covering the entire flow of IC technology analysis and patent analysis. A total of over 30,000 authorized certifications have been issued. The EDA software user includes thousands of fabless, research institutes, universities and intellectual property service institutions at home and abroad.
Main business and products
IP and EDA authorization, technology analysis, IP protection and ASIC/SoC turnkey services
Technical Analysis
Competitive Analysis
Process Analysis
Circiut Analysis
Design Service
Turnkey Service
Layout Design
Pango
| Established time | 2013-12-20 |
| Location | Shenzhen,China |
| Website | http://www.pangomicro.com |
Company profile
Shenzhen Pango Microsystems specializes in the development and sales of programmable system platform chips and their supporting EDA development tools, and is committed to providing customers with perfect programmable logic device platform and system solutions with independent intellectual property rights.Products cover communication, industrial control, image and video, consumer electronics and other application fields.
Main business and products
Titan-2 series
Titan series
Logos-2 series
Logos series
Compa series
Pango Design Suite
ROBEI
| Established time | 2014-01-10 |
| Location | Qingdao, Shandong, China |
| Website | http://robei.com/ |
Company profile
Robei LLC is an advanced IC design company which can provides both EDA software and Adaptive Chip. Robei EDA is a Block Design and simulation software which can improve the visualization of Verilog based IC Design with simplified concept. It has been used in more than 50 countries for front end IC design, error checking, visualization and fast simulation.
Main business and products
IC design
EDA software
Adaptive Chip
Xpeedic
| Established time | 2010-11-16 |
| Location | Suzhou, Jiangsu, China |
| Website | https://www.xpeedic.com/ |
Company profile
Xpeedic is a leading provider of simulation-centric EDA solution. Its differentiating chip-package-system solution enables customers to shorten their design cycle and thus improve time to market. Xpeedic customers include the world’s top companies in mobile, IoT, HPC, datacenter, and automotive.
Xpeedic Filter delivers the best-in-class RF filter for mobile and IoT market with its diversified filter technologies, in-house customized design tools, and stable foundry/package partnership.
Main business and products
EDA
IC Solution
Package Solution
System Solution
Cloud Solution
Filter
Ennocad
| Established time | 2020-12-14 |
| Location | Chengdu,Sichuang, China |
| Website | https://www.ennocad.com/ |
Company profile
Ennocad is a Chinese EDA company founded by top industry veterans. Its first self-developed EnFortius low-power series EDA tools can effectively help IC design engineers locate and analyze low-power design-related issues. In addition, Inotera can provide complete and customizable front-end and back-end design services, and its one-stop verification solution can improve chip design efficiency for vendors.
Main business and products
Hardware Verification Language,HVL
IC design
EDA
In the electronics industry, EDA is playing an increasingly important role due to the growing size of the semiconductor industry. EDA tools are also used in the programming of field-programmable logic gate arrays.
The global EDA software is mainly monopolized by Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor (acquired by Siemens) and other three U.S. companies. In recent years, China’s chip design capability has been increasing, and EDA technology has been working and developing.
