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Dorado Design Automation, Inc.
Dorado Design Automation, Inc., is an electronic design automation (EDA) software company, headquartered in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan. Dorado has particularly focused on providing solutions for chip design ECO (Engineering Change Order). The company was founded in 2003 with the vision to become an "ECO Company” in the semiconductor industry.

Dorado’s well-known product, Tweaker, is an ECO tool suite consists of an ECO system and a Recovery system. The ECO system, including Timing ECO, Power ECO,  Clock ECO, Metal ECO, and Functional ECO, is largely used for faster time-to-market and better chip quality, while the Recovery system, including Area Recovery, Power Recovery and Reliability Recovery, is mostly used for cleaning the redundant power, performance, or area of a chip, right before tape out.

History

 * 2003 Dorado Design Automation, Inc. started in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan
 * 2013 Dorado-DA North America,Inc. established in Sunnyvale, California
 * 2018 Dorado Design Automation, Inc. established in Bangalore, India

Products
ECO System


 * Tweaker-T1 Timing ECO
 * Tweaker-P1 Leakage Power ECO
 * Tweaker-P2 Dynamic Power ECO
 * Tweaker-C1 Clock ECO
 * Tweaker-M1 Metal ECO
 * Tweaker-F1 Functional ECO

Recovery System


 * Tweaker-A1 Area Recovery
 * Tweaker-P1 Dynamic Power Recovery
 * Tweaker-R1 Reliability Recovery

Reference

 * DeepChip - My Cheesy Must See List for DAC 2012
 * DAC 46 Presentation - Hold Time ECO for Hierarchical Design
 * Dorado Tweaker ECO Platform in Use at TSMC for Integrated Signoff Flow
 * TSMC Utilizes Dorado Tweaker ECO Platform for Integrated Signoff Flow