Research on EDA technology and its related issues

With the development of integrated circuit and computer technology, EDA technology gets rapid development, more and more EDA tools and software come out. The application, function, design flow, and some important development tools of EDA technology are introduced in the present paper. The relations of FPGA/CPLD, ASIC and SOC/SOPC, together with the key technology, are analyzed and studied. The development trends of related development tools are predicted as well.