Commercial Plugins and MPL 2.0 Licensing for Revolution EDA
20/05/2026 — Revolution EDA introduces commercial plugins and updates its open-source licensing model
Huissen, the Netherlands - Revolution EDA is entering a new phase with the introduction of commercial plugins and an updated open-source licensing model for the core platform.
Revolution EDA has been built as a modern environment for custom integrated circuit design, offering schematic capture, layout editing, simulation integration, and extensibility through a plugin-based architecture. To support the continued growth of the ecosystem, selected advanced plugins are now offered as commercial subscriptions. These premium plugins provide additional professional functionality, including advanced design automation workflows and AI-assisted engineering tools, while remaining fully optional for users of the core platform.
At the same time, the licensing of the core Revolution EDA software has been simplified and made more open. The project is now licensed under the pure Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL 2.0), with the previous Commons Clause removed. This change makes the licensing model clearer and aligns Revolution EDA more closely with established open-source practices. The MPL 2.0 license preserves openness for the core codebase while allowing commercial development of independent extensions and services around it.
The introduction of commercial plugins is an important step toward ensuring the long-term sustainability of the project. Subscription revenue will directly fund continued development of the core software, plugin infrastructure, documentation, and future capabilities. This model enables Revolution EDA to remain actively maintained while accelerating the delivery of new features requested by professional users.
Affordability remains a central principle of the project. Even with commercial subscriptions for premium plugins, Revolution EDA remains approximately 100 times more affordable than comparable market-leading custom IC design solutions. This makes advanced analog and mixed-signal design tools accessible to startups, universities, independent designers, and small engineering teams, in addition to larger organizations.
By combining a fully open MPL 2.0 core with optional commercial extensions, Revolution EDA aims to create a sustainable and practical alternative to traditional high-cost EDA platforms — bringing modern software development principles to the field of analog and mixed-signal IC design.