Editing Electronic design automation (section)

===Commercial birth===
{{See also|Productivity-improving technologies#Semiconductor device fabrication}}
1981 marked the beginning of EDA as an industry. For many years, the larger electronic companies, such as [[Hewlett-Packard]], [[Tektronix]] and [[Intel]], had pursued EDA internally, with managers and developers beginning to spin out of these companies to concentrate on EDA as a business. [[Daisy Systems]], [[Mentor Graphics]] and [[Valid Logic Systems]] were all founded around this time and collectively referred to as DMV. In 1981, the [[U.S. Department of Defense]] additionally began funding of [[VHDL]] as a hardware description language. Within a few years, there were many companies specializing in EDA, each with a slightly different emphasis.

The first trade show for EDA was held at the [[Design Automation Conference]] in 1984 and in 1986, [[Verilog]], another popular high-level design language, was first introduced as a hardware description language by [[Gateway Design Automation]]. Simulators quickly followed these introductions, permitting direct simulation of chip designs and executable specifications. Within several years, back-ends were developed to perform [[logic synthesis]].