About Revolution EDA

Our Story

Revolution EDA was founded by Murat Eskiyerli, an experienced integrated circuit designer who spent decades working with commercial EDA tool flows. Frustrated by the high cost, inflexibility, and vendor lock-in endemic to the EDA industry, he set out to build a professional-grade alternative — one that puts engineers first.

The company is headquartered in the Netherlands, and operates under Revolution Semiconductor. Since its founding, Revolution EDA has grown from a personal project into a recognised open-source EDA platform used by researchers, startups, and design teams worldwide.

Philosophy

We are not open-source zealots — we are pragmatists who believe that affordability and extendibility are the future of electronic design automation. The core of Revolution EDA is shared-source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (with Commons Clause): you always have access to the source code and perpetual use rights, without term-limited licenses that can expire or be revoked.

All design data is stored in plain-text JSON, eliminating the single biggest point of failure in traditional EDA — opaque binary formats tied to a vendor's continued existence. JSON-based libraries make Git-based version control straightforward, bringing modern software engineering practices to IC design.

Revolution EDA is built entirely in Python, giving every user access to the world's richest ecosystem of libraries — machine learning, data science, automation — and making it easy to extend the tool or integrate it into any modern design flow.

Milestones

Supported Foundries & PDKs

Revolution EDA supports leading open-source process design kits out of the box, including GlobalFoundries GF180MCU and IHP SG13G2 BiCMOS. Support for additional foundry PDKs is continuously expanding — see the PDKs page for details.

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