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==History==
CST was founded in 1992 by [[w:de:Thomas Weiland|Thomas Weiland]]. In the early years the focus was on the development and marketing of the MAFIA software package, where MAFIA stands for "solving MAxwell's equations using the Finite Integration Algorithm". MAFIA was widely used by research labs, and especially applied to the design of particle accelerators. MAFIA, a [[UNIX]] based software, employed the [[Computational electromagnetics#Finite integration technique .28FIT.29|Finite Integration Technique]](FIT), introduced by Weiland in 1977.<ref>T. Weiland, “A Discretization Method for the Solution of Maxwell’s Equations for Six-Component Fields,” Electronics and Communication, (AEÜ), Vol. 31, p.116, 1977</ref> FIT - also referred to as Finite Integration Algorithm or Finite Integral Method (FIM) - is a very general approach to discretizing Maxwell's equations, that can be applied in [[time ___domain]] and in [[frequency ___domain]].
The company's website was once cst.de, due to it being a German-based company. However, it was changed to cst.com as the company became more successful.
The most important milestone in company history was the introduction of the Microsoft Windows based software CST MICROWAVE STUDIO. It featured the proprietary „Perfect Boundary Approximation(PBA)“,<ref>The Perfect Boundary Approximation facing the big challenge of high precision field computation, B. Krietenstein, R. Schuhmann, P. Thoma, T. Weiland, Proceedings of the XIX International Linear Accelerator Conference, 1998</ref> an extension to FIT that provided users with a conformal explicit time ___domain method for the simulation of electromagnetic fields.
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