At the heart of Analog - Mixed Signal

Promoting a New Vision for EDA Tools in a Growing World of Technology

TexEDA Design, Inc. - Proven and Affordable

TexEDA Design, Inc. was formed in early 2008 for the expressed purpose of re-empowering the Electrical Engineer in their creative pursuit of advancements and technological innovation through Integrated Circuit Design.

With such a heady objective, you would expect us to uncover and expose new equations and theory to put the old ways flat on there backs pending extinction, but that is not necessary nor is it the way to the purest level of IC excellence. In fact the answers are not in the tools, and never were......No, the answer is and will always be, It's the Engineer, Stupid!

The only people that should feel judged by that statement are the perpetrators of the deception. For over 20 years since Wall Street set up shop in the EDA category, the strength and focus on the engineer and the creativity of his approach to integrated circuit design was no longer the #1 factor in IC innovation – it became all about the tools! As the tools progressed so went the industry like sheep to the slaughter. The tools were so complete and productive, you didn\\\'t need an EE anymore for design – Right! You could simply train a layout artist through tutorials or the EDA tool developers special training seminars. It was all done for you! Stay current with the newest tools and you will keep pace with the newest technologies available, so they said. Everybody was drinking the Kool Aid! And it worked...... for Wall Street and the Tool companies that followed their lead. From 1987 when ECAD sold $24M in tools and took their stock public (formed Cadence in 1988) until the end of 2007 when Cadence reported a gross revenue of $1.6 B the Kool Aid was flowing and the true ingenuity that birthed the first Integrated Circuit has been willingly held back from its true potential.

Now, four Wall Street companies control more than 85% of the EDA marketplace in the world, but what is wrong with this picture. Where is the innovation now that we all blindly followed for years? Why can only a few corporations with millions in billings afford to lease (not own!) a full set of tools? Are the prospects for the Semiconductor industry producing EE\\\'s out of the University and College systems more or less now? Are they learning to use tools to help formalize their thoughts or complete them? What went wrong along the way?

Wall Street changed the original mission of the Valley from innovation through technology ( instead - innovate to acknowledge ME), and squeezed every cent of profit out of the companies that they held hostage to the quarterly deliverables of greed and profit vs. innovation and ingenuity. Can you have both – the answer is Yes, but reasonable profit not greed. Can you have them quarterly, the answer is NO!

Wall Street does not promote innovation, it buys it! Thus is the story of the EDA industry over the last 20 years. And the market leadership has led us to a point of diminishing returns for both them and the users. Only a historian like Gary Smith can give you the endless list of names of all the start-up companies that had a new idea for the Valley and the EDA Category, but never made it to their formidable years before succumbing to the promises of their suitors (names lost among the archives of a few remaining companies) and the flash of untold sums of money.

Our Tools are meant to Empower the Engineer, not to replace him

TexEDA Design, Inc. is not in the Valley, we are located near Dallas, TX where the first Integrated Circuit was created 50 years ago. We have an Integrated Circuit Design Suite of applications by the name of LayTools. LayTools have been around, updated and proven worldwide for over 15 years. They will take you  from schematic capture to tape-out on budget and on time just like the claims of the market leaders, but at a fraction of their costs. And, oh by the way, you can own them, maintain them, and depreciate them like any capital investment if you choose not to lease. They are very intuitive tools, robust in their design deliverables, and without scale limitations.

LayTools are for Engineers to use in the activation of their creativity. They are a means of empowerment and take no credit for the great ideas of the Engineer – instead simply help to deliver designs in the form needed to take the IC to production. From concept to silicon is the space defined by the Engineer not the tools. If innovation is to thrive in IC Design from this day  forward it will be because the Electrical Engineers used tools designed by Engineers for Engineers to maximize their God given gifts of inquisition and innovation.

Take back that which has always been rightfully yours as Engineers of Innovation through Technology. Let LayTools help do their small part in the completion of a process you create, execute and evaluate. We wish to celebrate the Engineer, all Design Engineers, and LayTools does that by making their role simple and affordable. Download an Evaluation Copy today and take a tour of LayTools applications and utilities. We support every level of  Analog and Mixed Signal IC Design. We do not offer a buffet of features nor a list of promises to come. We Beta test our new tools with Engineers in real world projects and we announce what we have after it is market ready. You be the judge... and if you are an Electrical Engineer, we want to know what you think!