CAD design in the realm of electronics, better known as Electronic Design Automation (EDA), consists of using computerised means to design, create a layout, verify and
simulate the performance of electronic circuits mounted on a chip or on a printed circuit.Up until the seventies, circuits were drawn by hand making it quite a time consuming process. The advent of CAD design came to enable schematic design with computerised means, while Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) started to be used as an analisis tool for those designs.
Some areas where EDA is used are logical synthesis, EDA databases, circuit operation simulation such as hardware emulation, hardware optimisation, equivilency verification and manufacture testing.