Welcome to FOM Systems! Are you facing challenges with your printed circuit designs, such as:
- Signal integrity analysis of critical traces and signals
- Need to accurately simulate performance of high speed nets
- Need Blind & Buried vias and other fine line design issues
- The importation of IBIS or Spice models into your design
- Need to impose strict flight time alignment requirements
- Must have forward annotation of all routing constraints
- Need to route traces at fixed impedance values on multiple layers
- Need to accurately model physical properties of your board and its components for your mechanical designers
- Need to import board outline and pre-placement of critical parts from your mechanical designers
- Need high performance autorouting that obeys all timing and impedance constraints which you have applied
- Need workstation performance on a PC budget
Then Zuken’s CADSTAR is the tool you need. Europe’s best selling PC-based electrical design software is now available in America. Currently there are 3 software bundles being offered:
CADSTAR Extreme
Unique features of CADSTAR Extreme:
- Signal Integrity Verify (more info)
- XR5000 High Speed Router (more info)
- Unlimited Layers Autorouter (more info)
- Board Modeler Lite (3D) (more info)
- EMC Adviser (more info)
- Rules by Area (more info)
CADSTAR Professional
Unique features of CADSTAR Professional:
- XR2000 High Speed router
- Unlimited Layer Autorouter
- Rules by Area
- Board Modeler Lite
- EMC Adviser
CADSTAR Basic
Unique features of CADSTAR Basic:
- 6 Layer Autorouter
All three versions include the following features:
- For 1 year, full technical support, all software updates, access to online component libraries
- B²Spice Mixed Mode Simulation
- Design Migration (import design data from OrCAD, Altium, PADS etc.)
- Schematic Designer (more info)
- Library Editor
- Library Datasheet Publisher
- Variant Manager (more info)
- PCB Design Editor (unlimited)
- Place & Route Editor
- Free Gerber Editor (Excelcam)
- Network or Node-locked license for the same price.
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Free Downloads:
CADSTAR Express
Test drive CADSTAR risk free. Download and run CADSTAR Express, a full featured but design size limited version. You must install a license file in order to use CADSTAR Express, but the license is free and time unlimited. Please visit the “Contact” page to request your free license.
CADSTAR Design Viewer
Now every member of the design team can have their own copy of the read-only version of CADSTAR, useful for printing schematic files or other documentation, and for viewing of printed circuit board artwork. After downloading CADSTAR Design Viewer please register here to obtain your free license that will enable operation of the software.

