Silvar-Lisco is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of CAD (Computer Aided Design) software tools for the design of application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and custom integrated circuits. Best known for its Gards gate-array layout system.
In 1988 Silvar-Lisco signed a contract with Philips for the development of a DSP-specific ASIC design flow. The design environment for DSP ASIC implementation was based on research technology from Philips Research Labs and IMEC (Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Center, Belgium). This became know as EDC (European Development Center)
