A computer-aided design system for microelectromechanical systems (MEMCAD)

The authors describe the MIT microelectromechanical computer-aided design system (MEMCAD), in which selected commercial software packages are linked with specialized database and numerical programs to allow designers to quickly perform both mechanical and electrical analyses of structures either described directly, or derived from the design specification (mask data plus process flow). The system architecture, the various modules, and their present status are described, and present system performance is demonstrated with several examples.<>