By, Michiel Ligthart, COO, Verific Design Automation
Michiel Ligthart
2025 Promises Innovation and Vibrancy for EDA
2025 will see a continuation of two trends. Bespoke electronic design automation (EDA) where larger semiconductor companies and system companies started to develop in-house EDA tools is the first.
The second is the emergence of well-funded EDA startups offering a variety of generative AI (GenAI) solutions, technologies and methodologies destined to change the way chip design and verification is done.
Bespoke EDA brings the EDA industry full circle. Even though semiconductor companies and system companies license most of their design tools from EDA companies, they now develop their own design flow for certain design areas. They write their own internal EDA tools specific to their requirements only and don’t go outside of the company. This is reminiscent of another time when semiconductor companies wrote their own software tools to design semiconductors. Eventually, EDA startups took on singular problems including simulation, place and route, logic synthesis and started replacing in-house developed tools.
