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McCAD PCB-ST is an integrated PCB layout design environment for the board designer who does serious layout work and requires the availability of powerful design and edit tools at his fingertips. McCAD PCB-STs' numerous automated features allows you to quickly and easily complete your board design.

McCAD PCB-ST is net list driven and supports full forward and backward annotation of all net and component attributes passed to and from our McCAD Schematics. Cross checking is a snap. PCB-ST contains many intelligent features such as auto via insertion, design rule checking, dynamic place, auto ground plane creation, and auto thermal dispersion, which simplify and assist the designer with his work.

A number of routing options are provided. Included within these options is an internal point to point router which assists the user who wishes to do line by line routing. This method of assisted routing has proven to be very effective for many analog designers.

McCAD PCB -ST also easily links into McCAD Tracker and McCAD Trailblazer which are optional full featured autorouting engines, employing "push and shove technologies", providing superior routing performance. Up to 16 layers can be routed at breakneck speeds as all of these routers are available in native OSs for the power user. McCAD Trailblazer provides the user with a flexible interactive routing mode.

McCAD PCB-ST contains features such as; an on-line library editor, user definable design libraries,custom SMT Macro generator, net and part query and editing,auto labeling and much, much more.

A Gerber translator for generating Gerber text plot files is also included with each PCB-ST package.