Editing Electronic design automation (section)

=== Simulation ===
{{Main|Electronic circuit simulation}}
[[File:Eda-fabrication.PNG|right|thumb|250px|Simulated lithographic and other fabrication defects visible in small standard-cell metal interconnects.]]
* [[SPICE|Transistor simulation]] – low-level transistor-simulation of a schematic/layout's behavior, accurate at device-level.
* [[Logic simulation]] – digital-simulation of an [[Register-transfer level|RTL]] or gate-netlist's digital ([[Boolean algebra|Boolean]] 0/1) behavior, accurate at Boolean-level.
* Behavioral simulation – high-level simulation of a design's architectural operation, accurate at cycle-level or interface-level.
* [[Hardware emulation]] – Use of special purpose hardware to emulate the logic of a proposed design. Can sometimes be plugged into a system in place of a yet-to-be-built chip; this is called '''[[in-circuit emulation]]'''.
* [[Technology CAD]] simulate and analyze the underlying process technology. Electrical properties of devices are derived directly from device physics