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Clarification on EDA Packages for Chip and PCB Design

Posted by JeremyCook
2:12 pm
07/03/2025

Doing some research for an upcoming presentation about EDA packages. EDA stands for Electronic Design Automation (which I wasn’t sure of, TBH), and based on my searching it would seem that EDA packages are largely for actual chip design. Based on my experience, however, EDA definitely means circuit board design. I guess it means both, but it seems weird to me that the same name essentially means two different things.

It probably doesn’t bother that many other people, but when I have to actually write or present something I like to be very clear. If you look at this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihz2WY-E2C8, for instance, he’s largely talking about chip design, but what’s shown in the clipped image appears to be an actual circuit *board* and KiCad if I’m not mistaken.

Any thoughts on this? The whole thing seems rather ambiguous if you know anything about these worlds.