Today thre is an imbalance in the quality and quantity of computer-aided engineering tools for developing electronics designs. Far more systems exist for digital than for analog design, and too few are avaiable for software design. Beginning next year, CAE tools will emerge that provide analog design and software engineering with gear as sophisticated as that being used in digital design. Simulators will replicate the functions of analog design before it is ever put into hardware, while computer-aided fotware engineering tools will improve the flow of a larger design effort: software development.