Editing Electronic design automation (section)

=== Acquisitions ===
Many EDA companies acquire small companies with software or other technology that can be adapted to their core business.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www10.edacafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?articleid=301031&interstitial_displayed=Yes |title=EDA Innovation through Merger and Acquisitions |author=Kirti Sikri Desai |year=2006 |publisher=EDA Cafe |access-date=March 23, 2010}}</ref> Most of the market leaders are amalgamations of many smaller companies and this trend is helped by the tendency of software companies to design tools as accessories that fit naturally into a larger vendor's suite of programs on [[digital circuitry]]; many new tools incorporate analog design and mixed systems.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/|title=Semi Wiki:EDA Mergers and Acquisitions Wiki|date=2011-01-16|website=SemiWiki.com|language=en|access-date=2019-04-03|archive-date=April 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403080353/https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/|url-status=dead}}</ref> This is happening due to a trend to place [[System on a chip|entire electronic systems on a single chip]].