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MCM Design - EDA Vendors

Once you get past the Big 10 MCM EDA vendors there is a wide variety of affordable, but generally less capable, PCB/MCM design tools. There's no easy way to tell if one of these tools will be your needs, but by reviewing the product specs and talking with existing users you can at least make reasonable decisions. The huge tradeoff that comes with most of these tools is ease of use vs technical capability. Generally, I suggest using the minimum tool set that can economically get the job done. If you design 10+ products a year, then using the major tools can work out well because you keep your skills honed. But for fewer designs, going with an easier to learn (or re-learn) tool supports such stop-and-go shopload.

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PCB/MCM EDA Tools

These are listed in simple alphabetical order.

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