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Design - EDA/CAD
Design it, build it - the two mantras of the MCM world. As you learned on Analysis page, there are a wide variety of electronic and mechanical analyses that can be performed against an MCM design to confirm that the design meets its requirements. Analysis tools can roughly be categorized as PCB/MCM EDA, signal integrity, finite element analysis. This page covers the EDA category.

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PCB/MCM Design

You simply won't find a tool set that is exclusively dedicated to MCMs. First there were PCBs, then there were MCMs. So it was that MCM tools have evolved out of the PCB tools. In fact, with the blurring of the two technologies, i.e., MCM-L, common tool sets are preferrable. That said, there are certainly major EDA vendors whose products have been specifically adapted to the unique requirements of MCMs.

In the MCM world, there are basically ten (10) vendors whose design tool suites can be said to cater to the MCM community:

In addition to this list of 10 EDA vendors/products, the is a whole host of other vendors whose products were primarily created for use in PCB design, but which can be applied to MCM design as well. I have created a second page with the list of these vendors/products.