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Always looking for IC Test software with Automatic Capabilities to eliminate Tedious Layout Tasks? Well, we have your Solution.

Fully automated IC TEST board layout and design software tools that give you a design collaboration system* between IC design, Circuit layout, Simulation/Analysis, Manufacturing, Assembly, and Equipment.

The EPD Master IC Test Designer by CAD Design Software has dedicated tools that automate the physical layout of all IC Test technologies for:

• LoadBoard

• Burn In Board 

• Probe Card designs

IC Test Designs can now be developed with full netlist and DRC intelligence.

For more details of the many technologies and features included in Master IC Test Designer Suite, select from the technologies or features at the right.

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*Our design and layout tools have been developed to offer a seamless interface with all departments and functions that surround a product from idea through production.  We call this our design collaboration system.

LoadBoard Layout:

• Intelligent control over tester resources to DUT pins

• Parameter driven controls for easy creation of test sockets and BGA patterns

• Advanced ground plane generation for complex and/ or split planes

• Automatic tuning programs using trombone or accordion tunes

• Polar based routing to optimize area on radial designs

• Automatic pre-routing of BGA patterns

• More...

ProbeCard Layout:

• Automatic, parameter-driven programs to create complex components quickly

• High-speed netlist creation and optimization of layers for routing

• Polar based routing to optimize area on radial designs

• Automatic probe placement ensures optimum probe needle design

• Automatic die/wafer creation from X.Y coordinates, from drawing data, or from parameters

• More...

Burn-In Board Layout:

• Intelligent blocking and array system for cells, with intelligent reference control

• Automated creation of burn-in cells

• Advanced ground plane generation for complex and/or split planes

• Automatic routing utilities for pattern reuse

• More...

PCB layout:

• Large, parametrically controlled parts library through which an infinite number of components can be constructed

• A dedicated suite of utilities allows construction of custom components with any imaginable geometry

• Hierarchical Design Rule Checker (DRC) works in batch mode or in real time

• Advanced routing tools including manual, interactive, and fully automatic modes

• Custom entity system for customer-specific requirements

• More...

Flex layout:

• Automatic and progressive teardrops

• Custom coverlay openings

• Timesaving utilities, such as automatic and progressive trace filleting

• More...

Simulation add-on links available:

• Agilent Technologies - Advanced Design System

• Applied Wave Research - Microwave Office

• Sonnet - Sonnet Suite

• Computer Simulation Technology - Microwave Studio

• Applied Simulation Technology - ApSim RLGC

• Ansoft - HFSS, Maxwell, and Turbo Package Analyzer

• More...

Manufacturing and Artwork outputs:

• Automatic soldermask openings

• Automatic silkscreen generation and positioning

• Automatic assembly drawings

• ODB++ output for verification (add-on)

• Automatic equipment outputs to wirebond, pick and place, and epoxy dispense machines (Contact CDS to find out which machines are currently supported)

• True 3D solid creation, with exports to all popular MCAD systems through ACIS, IGES, STEP, DWG, DXF, and 3DS formats

• Powerful Gerber output (274-D and 274-X) direct from the database

• GDS II Stream Files