[akersten]

> specifically semiconductor design tools required for developing high performance computing

I call that EDA for brevity

> Can you do that with KiCAD?

Yes, depending how you define "high performance computing" (my question here)

[Cyph0n]

Isn’t KiCAD limited to PCB design, or is my understanding out of date?

Cadence tooling is for end-to-end electronics design - from transistor/standard cell up to PCB.

So technically they’re both EDA tools, but one is in another league as far as sophistication goes.

[AlotOfReading]

People have hacked kicad into doing layout with the e.g. skywater 130 PDK. I wouldn't recommend it, but it's possible.

There's a whole lot more to an EDA tool than just layout or running spice though.