The experience of creation of the general purpose and specialized workshops for training and retraining of specialists mastering modern EDA and device simulation tools for VLSICs and system-on-chip has been generalized. The basis for these workshops is the complex professional packages for design of microelectronic devices by the known world EDA leaders: companies Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys, Coventor, Mentor Graphics, Xilinx and others, which have been provided for the University within the framework of educational and academic programs.