AI-Empowered Integrated Circuit Design Automation
Revolution EDA delivers a complete electronic design automation suite from schematic capture through layout, DRC, and LVS (soon) — including a powerful simulation and analysis GUI. The schematic and layout editors are always open-source and license-free, so your team can focus on design, not licensing costs.
The EDA industry has long been dominated by expensive, inflexible tools that lock designers into proprietary workflows and opaque file formats. Revolution EDA breaks that mould. By using plain-text JSON for all design data, it eliminates the single biggest point of failure in traditional EDA systems and makes Git-based version control a reality for IC design teams. Its Python foundation gives designers access to the world’s richest ecosystem of libraries — spanning machine learning, data science, and beyond — making it straightforward to extend, automate, and integrate into any modern design flow. Crucially, Revolution EDA is built to grow with your needs through a plugin architecture that supports both free and commercial add-ons.
Revolution EDA is completely written in Python. Thus, it is able to access the huge Python ecosystem of libraries extending and customizing Revolution EDA for your own needs very easy. Furthermore, the core software is shared-source, i.e. as a user, you can do any changes you want but you cannot sell it further.
With the AI Terminal premium plugin, your engineers get direct access to industry-leading models like Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude inside Revolution EDA, with commercial licensing for teams that need AI-assisted design workflows in production.
Revolution EDA is fully extensible through an open plugin ecosystem. Teams can mix community extensions with commercial plugins for AI-assisted editing, simulation, and waveform analysis, while developers can still build and distribute their own add-ons through the shared repository.
Semiconductor foundries can leverage Revolution EDA’s robust intellectual property (IP) protection features, ensuring that proprietary process design kits and cell libraries stay secure.
Design data is stored in open JSON format, giving you perpetual access to your work — no license expirations, no vendor lock-in. JSON-based libraries also make Git-based revision control seamless and straightforward, a significant advantage over legacy OpenAccess based workflows.
Your design continuity is guaranteed by the Mozilla Public License (MPL) v2.0 license. Because the source code is always accessible for the core software, your access is not tied to a term-limited license. Thus, you have perpetual, free-licence to core of Revolution EDA including source code.
Revolution EDA was created by experienced integrated circuit designers who have worked with commercial tool flows for decades. We are not open-source zealots but believe that affordability and extendibility is the future of electronic design automation.
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