EDA
/ˌiː diː ˈeɪ/
Electronic Design Automation; software tools used to design, simulate, and verify integrated circuits before manufacturing
EDA in a sentence
“Without EDA tools, designing a billion-transistor chip would be humanly impossible.”
Origin of EDA
Acronym: Electronic Design Automation; the field emerged in the 1980s
Related Words
reticle
the photomask containing one or more chip patterns, used in a stepper to expose those patterns onto a wafer
IDM
Integrated Device Manufacturer; a semiconductor company that both designs and manufactures its own chips
HBM
High Bandwidth Memory; a stacked DRAM technology that places memory dies directly atop or beside a processor for extreme data throughput
back-end-of-line
the stage of chip fabrication that creates the metal interconnect layers connecting transistors to each other
transistor
a semiconductor device that amplifies or switches electrical signals; the fundamental building block of modern electronics
semiconductor
a material whose electrical conductivity falls between that of a conductor and an insulator, enabling precise control of current