e*ECAD, Inc. is a software portal company located in Santa Clara, California. It offers a variety of EDA software for creating integrated circuit design tool flows. Its purchase and delivery system provides alternative solutions to traditional software licensing models. The tools are delivered via the Internet onto the user's workstation to permit local and unrestricted use of EDA tools not unlike tool use under traditional licensing schemes.

The E*ECAD system offers the following licensing models.

• Pay-Per-Hour or Pay-Per-Run, depending on the type of the tool. In the Pay-Per-Hour model, the time granularity is actually in fractions of seconds.
• EDA Buffet (monthly rental).

Licensing is controlled via Internet connection to e*ECAD.

Tools are provided by independent vendors, partners of e*ECAD, and include process and device modeling and simulation, SPICE circuit simulation, schematic entry, parasitics extraction, IC layout editing, physical layout verification, circuit verification, timing analysis, and others.

External link

• e*ECAD home