EDA has good showing in Hot 100

We’ve just posted our HOT 100 products for 2007. This year the EDA industry produced quite a few interesting tools spanning several different design disciplines.

In 2005 and 2006, a vast majority of the EDA startups and new tools seemed to be in the DFM space. I think 2007 will likely be remembered as the year in which the big EDA vendors consolidated the DFM tool space and integrated many of these DFM tools into their RTL-to-GDSII tool flows.

But it will also be remembered as a year where there was a decent batch of EDA offerings. And the tools in the Hot 100 covered the gambit: from functional verification, to emulation, to timing analysis, place and route to IC and package co-design.

I’m pretty happy because 11 EDA products made it onto the final Hot 100 list and there are a total of 12 categories in Hot 100. All in all, not a bad showing for EDA industry this year. I expect many of these tools will also be finalists in our upcomming Innovation awards. You can let us know which tools you think are hot by participating. Look for the voting process to begin early next year.