It was firstly put forwarded in 70s. And till now there has been three stages of the EDA. That is the computer aided design (CAD) of electronic circuit, the computer aided engineering (CAE) and the electronic design automation.

• EDA技术的发展始于70年代,至今经历了CAD(计算机辅助设计)、CAE(计算机辅助工程)和EDA(电子设计自动化)三个阶段。