Best Electronic Design Automation Tools Companies in United Kingdom
The 46 best Electronic Design Automation Tools companies in United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Imagination Technologies.
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Ranked: Best Electronic Design Automation Tools companies in United Kingdom
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imagination Technologies Provider of GPU processor solutions for graphics and AI vision applications | $120M | 24 mo ago | 200 | Wallace P COO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+33 | Top 5M | 5 patents Advanced wireless signal processing and QoS scheduling for cellular base stations | — |
| 2 | CarbonDesignSystems Developer of virtual prototyping software for hardware and software validation 62Fin. health top 17%Market top 20%Funding top 38%Global bottom 37% All 6 signals ▾Fin. healthtop 17% Markettop 20% Fundingtop 38% Globalbottom 37% Growthbottom 36% Techbottom 33% Fin. health: Revenue ~$5.1B · Revenue +24% YoY Market: 2,984 employees (top 3% of Industrial Goods and Manufacturing) · Revenue ~$5.1B rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $39M | 167 mo ago | 2,984 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Blu Wireless Developer of wireless communication systems for high speed data transmission | $34M | 26 mo ago | 91 91 → 49 (-46%) | Anthony Murray CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | Top 10M | 39 patents mmWave vehicular wireless mesh communication systems and devices | — |
| 4 | Agile Analog Provider of configurable analog intellectual property cores for semiconductor devices | $24M | 58 mo ago | 58 | Mike Hulse Founder | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+12 | Top 50M | 57 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 5 | TeraView Manufacturer of terahertz imaging systems for industrial inspection and analysis 67Growth top 14%Product top 14%Patents top 21%Innovation top 23% All 10 signals ▾Growthtop 14% Producttop 14% Patentstop 21% Innovationtop 23% Moattop 29% Fin. healthtop 39% Fundingtop 41% Techbottom 46% Globalbottom 44% Marketbottom 34% Growth: Revenue +142% YoY · Web rank 50,000,000 → 10,000,000 YoY Product: 4 distinct product lines · Company stage: Public rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100 | $22M | 67 mo ago | 25 25 → 50 (+100%) | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | Top 10M | 184 patents Terahertz spectroscopy and imaging systems for material, coating thickness, and sample analysis | 1 partnership |
| 6 | UltraSoC Provider of IPs for SoC | $19M | 85 mo ago | 26 | Klaus McDonald Maier Co-Founder & CSO | — | — | 93 patents On-chip communication and debugging infrastructure for system‑on‑chip networks | — |
| 7 | Amphion Video codec silicon IP start-up company | $15M | 278 mo ago | 10 | — | — | — | — | 1 job opening · 3 launchs |
| 8 | Pulsic EDA software for analog and mixed signal design | $7M | 217 mo ago | 46 | — | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+20 | Top 10M | 61 patents Electronic design automation for IC placement, routing, and analog layout optimization. | 1 launch |
| 9 | Eosemi Provider of IP core solutions for timing and frequency-based ICs | $7M | 43 mo ago | 11 | Simon Calder CEO | — | — | 22 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 10 | Circuit Mind Provider of AI-powered platform for electronics design and automation | $7M | 48 mo ago | 8 | Tomide Adesanmi Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+18 | Top 5M | 3 patents Electronic design automation tools for automated circuit schematic creation | — |
| 11 | Thalia Design Automation Online AI EDA platform focused on analog and mixed signal design 19Moat top 37%Product top 39%Talent top 41%Funding top 43% All 10 signals ▾Moattop 37% Producttop 39% Talenttop 41% Fundingtop 43% Techbottom 44% Innovationbottom 42% Patentsbottom 33% Globalbottom 33% Newsbottom 27% Marketbottom 20% Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · IP moat: 8 patents Product: 0 product launch events in 12 mo · 4 distinct product lines rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 19/100 | $7M | 36 mo ago | 7 | Sowmyan Rajagopalan Chief Executive Officer & Chief Technology Officer | WordPress Block EditorWordPressSentry+21 | Top 50M | 8 patents Analog IC design optimization: corner analysis, yield improvement, population generation, ranking | — |
| 12 | Mach42 Provider of AI-powered analog circuit verification acceleration | $6M | 34 mo ago | — | Sam Vinko Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 13 | ATEEDA Built in tests of Microchips | $5M | 113 mo ago | 6 | — | — | — | 14 patents Built‑in self‑test and verification methods for analog‑to‑digital converters in ICs. | — |
| 14 | Codeplay Provider of high-performance compilers and software optimization for multicore processors | $3M | 100 mo ago | 74 | Uwe Dolinsky Co-Founder & CTO | DiscourseApple iCloud MailRuby+10 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 15 | ChipFlow Provider of a platform for custom microchip design | $3M | 22 mo ago | 10 | Staf Verhaegen Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+15 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 16 | Tattvam AI Provider of AI-based solutions for accelerating chip design and development 35AI top 35%Talent top 38%Funding top 45%Global bottom 48% All 6 signals ▾AItop 35% Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 45% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 41% Marketbottom 25% AI: Product described with: ai-based, artificial intelligence Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 35/100 | $2M | 5 mo ago | — | Lannan Jiang Co-Founder | Radix UITailwind CSSshadcn/ui+7 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 17 | sureCore Provider of low-power memory IP for silicon process technologies | $2M | 57 mo ago | 6 | Paul Wells CEO & Founder | — | — | 72 patents In-memory computing and advanced memory sensing technologies for data storage devices. | — |
| 18 | Omiino Optical Transport Silicon solutions using FPGA platforms | $2M | 224 mo ago | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Allinea Tools for parallel programming and high performance computing | $643K | 128 mo ago | 32 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | Photon Design Provider of simulation software for the photonic ICs | $228K | 91 mo ago | — | — | Craft CMSPHPYii+14 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 21 | Moortec Analog Intellectual Property (IP) and mixed-signal custom chip designs. | $119K | 103 mo ago | 48 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 22 | Omnitek Provider of IPs for FPGAs | $55K | 125 mo ago | 40 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | Alphawave Semi Provider of silicon IP and chiplets designing & manufacturing services | $50K | 74 mo ago | 300 | Tony Pialis Founder & CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+19 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 24 | Myrtle Developer of deep learning based EDA tool for compiling FPGA, GPU and CPU | — | 112 mo ago | 16 16 → 22 (+38%) | Peter Baldwin Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | Top 10M | — | 1 launch |
| 25 | Akya Developer of signal processing IPs | — | — | — | Colin Dente CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 26 | Alphawave Provider of IPs for multiple integrated circuits | — | — | 154 | Raj Mahadevan Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Electronic Design Automation Tools companies in United Kingdom
#1
Seed · London, England · founded 2025$1.7Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based solutions for accelerating chip design and development. Tattvam AI is a developer of software solutions aiming to bring software-speed agility to the chip design industry. The company leverages artificial intelligence to enhance the design process. It plans to launch its first product in the coming months.
- Feb 2026Seed$1.7M
#2
Acquired · Kings Langley, England · founded 1985 · 200 employees$120.2Mraised▾
Provider of GPU processor solutions for graphics and AI vision applications. It offers silicon IP cores, graphics processors, design optimization kits, NNA, central processing units, AI chips, and ethernet packet processors. Its use cases are in automotive, AR and VR, mobile, and consumer applications.
- Jul 2024Post IPO$100M
- Sep 2011Grant (prize money)$199K
- Jun 2009Post IPO$5.2M
- Dec 2008Post IPO$5M
#3
Series B · Bristol, England · founded 2009 · 91 employees$34.4Mraised▾
Developer of wireless communication systems for high speed data transmission. These systems utilize millimeter wave spectrum to facilitate connectivity for transport and defense applications. The technology supports data intensive operations for stationary and mobile platforms. Hardware components include baseband modems and networking equipment designed for integration into complex environments. The systems enable wireless backhaul and tactical communications through scalable infrastructure.
- Jun 2024Series B—
- May 2024Series B$4.3M
- Mar 2019Series B$16.6M
- Jun 2017Series B$10.4M
#4
Seed · Cambridge, England · founded 2021 · 10 employees$2.9Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for custom microchip design. It uses a a Python based hardware description language to design the microchip and also provides test, simulation and formal verification framework. It provides a library of silicon proven modules including pad-rings, analog blocks, common digital peripherals and SoC frameworks with documentation and implementations for test.
- Sep 2024Seed$1.3M
- 2023Grant (prize money)—
- Apr 2023Seed$1.5M
- Jan 2023Seed$99.2K
#5
Series B · Cwmbran, Wales · founded 2011 · 7 employees$6.9Mraised▾
Online AI EDA platform focused on analog and mixed signal design. It is a semiconductor electronic design automation company providing software solutions that assist in the design of analog and mixed signal integrated circuits. It offers tools to manage design migration, derivatives generation, and design reuse issues, IP optimization, etc.
- Jul 2023Series B$2.7M
- Jun 2019Series A$2M
- Oct 2017Series A$865K
- Apr 2014Series A$1M
#6
Series A · Oxford, England · founded 2019$5.5Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered analog circuit verification acceleration. This company leverages proprietary neural network technology to significantly speed up the verification process while maintaining high accuracy and requiring minimal data. By integrating advancements in simulation technology, cloud computing, and machine learning, it offers a platform that predicts analog circuit design performance rapidly. The platform aims to deliver higher quality predictions at significantly faster speeds than traditional methods.
- Sep 2023Series A$5.5M
- May 2021Seed—
#7
Series A · Cambridge, England · founded 2017 · 58 employees$24Mraised▾
Provider of configurable analog intellectual property cores for semiconductor devices. It offers solutions for data conversion, power management, IC monitoring, security, and always-on functionality. The company's technology allows for optimization across various processes and nodes. It provides customizable intellectual property for specific application needs.
- Oct 2021Series A—
- May 2021Series A$19M
- Jul 2019Grant (prize money)—
- May 2019Seed$5M
#8
Public · Cambridge, England · founded 2001 · 25 employees$21.5Mraised▾
Manufacturer of terahertz imaging systems for industrial inspection and analysis. These systems utilize terahertz light to perform non-destructive measurements of multi-layer coatings, material thickness, and density. Applications include fault isolation in semiconductor packaging, inspection of battery electrodes, and quality control for polymer films and automotive paints. The technology provides data for material characterization and defect detection in production environments.
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$260.9M
- Feb 2020Series A$6M
- Oct 2015Series A$10M
- Jan 2012Series A$5.5M
#9
Acquired · Cambridge, England · founded 2002 · 2984 employees$38.9Mraised▾
Developer of virtual prototyping software for hardware and software validation. This tool enables the creation of system models to facilitate architectural analysis and performance profiling. It supports various model formats and provides interfaces for debugging hardware and software components. Users can assemble virtual prototypes to test designs before committing to physical hardware implementations. The software includes capabilities for co-simulation with simulators and provides access to a repository of models for system integration.
- Sep 2012Series E$4M
- Jan 2008Series E$6M
- Dec 2007Series E$8.5M
- Sep 2006Series D$5M
#10
Series A · Congleton, England · founded 2005 · 11 employees$7.2Mraised▾
Provider of silicon-based products intended to develop high stability temperature compensated crystal oscillators (HSTCXOs). The company's products provide frequency and timing, product, accuracy, and stability which reduces the size and energy consumption, enabling businesses to synchronize and connect timely with communications networks.
#11
Series A · London, England · founded 2018 · 8 employees$6.9Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered platform for electronics design and automation. The platform helps to automatically design schematics and generate bills of materials. It enables teams to generate and redesign electronic systems. The platform also automates reports for power analysis, failure mode effects and criticality analysis, and stress and derating.
- Jul 2022Series A$6.3M
- Jul 2021Seed$550.4K
#12
Acquired · Cambridge, England · founded 2005 · 26 employees$18.7Mraised▾
UltraSoC is a provider of IPs for SoC. It claims to provide semiconductor IP platform that allows creating on-chip monitoring and analytics infrastructures. It finds application in a wide range of markets sectors like automotive & IoT products, communications infrastructure, etc. It also claims to provide a toolkit of more than 30 different modules for the SoC system architect.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Electronic Design Automation Tools coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Chip Design & EDA is moving in the United Kingdom
A read on the academic research around Chip Design & EDA — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 471 United Kingdom-affiliated papers.
- Imperial College London46
- University of Southampton29
- University of Manchester25
- Newcastle University25
- Mentor23
- Scalability1→8
- Automation6→13
- Electronic design automation7→12
- Transistor1→6
- Electronic circuit4→8
- Automation8→13
- Electronic design automation10→15
- Sizing1→4
- Electronics1→4
- Logic synthesis6→8
- Automation3→4
Where chip design eda is researched across United Kingdom
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing chip design eda patents in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom chip design eda patent filing is accelerating — 20 filings from 20 assignees (2017–2025), led by Advanced RISC MACH, Cirrus Logic INT Semiconductor, Altera; annual filings 3→4.
- Advanced RISC MACH9
- Cirrus Logic INT Semiconductor6
- Altera3
- Perry Steven3
- ZIO Health2
- Garrison TECH2
- Texas Instruments2
- ADI WAEL1
Common questions
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