美国EDA协会对2005年全球EDA市场的调研报告显示,整个EDA行业2005年的销售收入为45.7亿美元,仅比2004年的44.3亿美元增长了3%。由此可见,EDA行业依然没有迎来市场期望的大幅增长,而始终保持近几年缓慢增长的态势。究其原因,业界人士普遍认为,一是由于EDA工具已经不能满足当前IC The EDA Association of the United States on the 2005 global EDA market research report shows that the entire EDA industry in 2005 sales of 4.57 billion US dollars, only 3.4% higher than in 2004, an increase of 3%. This shows that the EDA industry is still not ushered in the substantial growth in market expectations, and always maintain the slow growth in recent years. The reason, the industry generally believe that one is due to EDA tools can not meet the current IC