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Silvaco, Inc.

EDA and TCAD software provider
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Description

Silvaco delivers EDA and Stanford-based TCAD products with support and engineering services to provide semiconductor process and device simulation solutions. TCAD products include process simulators, device simulators, stress simulators and others. In the EDA space, they provide analog and mixed-signal/RF products, Custom IC CAD, Interconnect modeling, and digital CAD.
After purchasing Simucad in 2003, Silvaco re-launched the brand by spinning out its EDA product line in 2006 under the Simucad name. Silvaco divested all simulation and CAD products and intellectual property, most notably the SmartSpice circuit simulator. As of March 1, 2010, Simucad Design Automation and Silvaco Data Systems were merged back together forming Silvaco, Inc. Silvaco went public on Nasdaq (under the ticker SVCO) in May 2024.

  • Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, USA
  • Founded: 1984
  • Founder: Ivan Pesic
  • Website: https://silvaco.com

ACQUISITIONS:

August 2025: Mixel. Mixed signal IP, including PHY and SerDes IP for MIPI.

April 2025: Tech-X Corporation. multi-physics simulation software used in applications such as photonics, electromagnetics, and plasma dynamics.

March 2025: Process Proximity Compensation product line of Cadence.

January 2021: Polyteda Cloud. Rapid physical verification of IC designs prior to mask creation and manufacturing and cloud enablement of EDA tools.

November 2020: Memory compiler technology of Dolphin Design SAS.

September 2020: Assets of Coupling Wave Solutions. System-level interference analysis of complex SoCs that integrate analog, RF, and digital blocks.

2016: IPextreme

2016: EdXact SA

2015: Invarian

2003: Simucad Design Automation