The Electric VLSI Design System is an EDA tool written in the early 1980s by Steven M.

[3][4][5] Electric is used to construct logic wire schematics and to perform analysis of integrated circuit layout.

The system has many analysis and synthesis tools, including design rule checking, simulation, routing, Layout vs. Schematic, logical effort, and more.

One advantage is that circuits are always extracted, so analyses that need to know the topology (Layout vs. Schematic, simulation, etc.)

[citation needed] Originally written in C during the 1980s, Electric was distributed for free to universities[6] and sold by Applicon as "Bravo3VLSI" during the mid 1980s.