EDA Tools

Abstract

The Electronic Design Automation (EDA), is a group of software tools for designing electronic systems such as integrated circuit (ASICs), printed circuit boards (PCBs), or reprogrammable hardware as FPGA, etc. The general ideas of EDA tools and the particular for FPGA designs will be discussed in this section. Typically these tools work in a design flow that hardware and system designers use to design and analyze entire system behavior. This chapter explains the main concepts related to the EDA tools and presents an example using Xilinx ISE and Altera Quartus tools.