Domestic EDA Industry Waiting to be Booming

EDA, located at the top of the pyramid of chip industry, is the most high-end industry of IC design, which is known as the “mother of electronic industry”. EDA refers to electronic design automation, an extension of the concept of CAD, CAM, and CAT, and CAE. With the development of integrated circuit technology, the industry gives EDA the title of "chip design software tool" since EDA is the source of capacity performance in the IC industry. EDA tools cover all aspects not only from simulation to layout but also from front end to back end, in which the integrated circuit is output under the operation of EDA system.

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Market Scale of the EDA

EDA is a small but valuable industrial part in the field of IC industry. The data shows that in 2018, the global value of IC output was nearly 500 billion USD, of which the market size of EDA is only 9.7 billion USD, accounting for a small proportion of the output value of the whole IC industry chain. However, it is related to the survival of the entire industrial chain under the small proportion and all chip design companies around the world will stagnate without EDA products.

The IC industry was in the initial stage of development in the 1950s, in which artificial wiring was the main method of chip design. However, with the commercial utilize of the computer and the improvement of the chip integration, artificial wiring could not meet the requirements of chip design. In the 1970s, CAD software industry entered the golden age, leading to EDA growing. And EDA tools really started in the 1980s with the first workstation platform Apollo born in 1983. Until the 1990s, with the rapid development of microelectronics technology, millions of crystalloids were placed on the one chip, and EDA with higher level and better simulation effect was needed to participate in the design process. From then on, EDA began to be used by chip designers all over the world. After more than 30 years of rapid development, the global EDA industry pattern is dominated by Cadence, Synopsys and mentor graphics, and the three EDA giants occupy more than 60 percent of the global market share. Among them, Synopsys is the largest EDA enterprise in the world, with a market share of 32.1% in 2018, followed by Cadence with a share of 22 percent.

It is Urgent to Develop the Domestic EDA

The development of EDA in China began in the middle and late 1980s since the IC industry has attracted the attention of all walks of life in China, which has promoted the EDA development. In 1986, China independently developed the integrated circuit CAD system of panda system. After a long time of exploration and technological breakthrough, the first domestic EDA panda system came out in 1993. In the following time, the development of domestic EDA was tortuous and slow. At present, in China's EDA sales market, 95% of the sales volume is occupied by the above three giants, and the remaining 5% is occupied by other foreign companies such as ANSYS. The share left to domestic EDA companies such as Huada Jiutian and Xinhe technology can almost be ignored. Objectively speaking, there is a significant gap between the integrity of domestic tools and the top three. The importance of EDA is self-evident. Once EDA is controlled by others, the whole chip industry is in the situation of being led by the outside world. This ban once again rings the alarm for us. Domestic EDA is imminent. At the same time, the realization of a strong country in science and technology requires a complete science and technology industry chain, and there is no lack of any link. Even if technology is far from other countries, it is necessary to develop.

The Technology Development in the Domestic Chip Industry is Expected to Play a Driving Role

At present, SMIC has been able to produce 14nm chips, which is undergoing 12nm technology testing. At the same, in the domestic IC design, Huawei and ZTE reached the international advanced level, which offers a fantastic environment to increase. From the perspective of the overall situation of the chip industry chain, China has a layout in IC design, manufacturing and testing, which shows a booming state. If the domestic EDA manufacturers can grasp the opportunity, they can obtain a significant breakthrough. There are several local EDA enterprises, including Empyrean, Xpeedix and others.

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Empyrean has carried the technology of Panda system and accumulated much experience for many years in EDA and IP. Now, Empyrean is able to provide EDA solutions of the fully customizable IC design, and superior SOC optimization, especially in the field of FPD. Besides, Empyrean is the only supplier that can provide the whole FPD solution in world, which has obtained the market share of most famous panel factories.

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