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==Products==

The main product of CST is CST STUDIO SUITE,<ref>A Software Suite with Total Synergy, Microwave Journal, Horizon House, Jan. 2006</ref> which comprises various modules dedicated to specific application areas. There are modules for microwave, radio frequency, optical applications, summarized in CST MICROWAVE STUDIO, low frequency (CST EM STUDIO), PCBs and packages (CST PCB STUDIO), cable harnesses (CST CABLE STUDIO), temperature and mechanical stress (CST MPHYSICS STUDIO) and for the simulation of the interaction of charged particles and electromagnetic fields (CST PARTICLE STUDIO). All modules are integrated with a system and circuit simulator (CST DESIGN STUDIO).<ref>Top Products 2002, Microwaves&RF, Penton, Jan. 2003</ref>

==Customers==

Users of CST simulation software work mainly in the areas of microwave and radio frequency, EMC/EMI, particle acceleration, and various low -frequency applications. Accordingly, its customers are industries such as aerospace, automation, automotive, electronics, power engineering, and medical.

==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"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 most important milestone in company history was the introduction of the Microsoft Windows -based software CST MICROWAVE STUDIO. It featured the proprietary „Perfect"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.

In 1999 the affiliate company CST of America, Inc. was founded in Boston. CST of Korea, Inc. followed 2001 in Seoul.

2003 saw the first installment of the "CST University Publication Award", which draws contributions from university institutes world wideworldwide, and underlines the growing importance of simulation in research.

Since 2005 CST promotes the "Complete Technology" approach. The goal is to enable users to select from different state of the art simulation methods the most appropriate while staying in one user interface. Available methods currently include FIT, [[Finite Element Method]], [[Boundary element method|Method of Moments]], [[Multilevel fast multipole method|MLFMM]], [[Transmission-line matrix method]].

2008 CST was incorporated as [[Aktiengesellschaft]]. The same year the electromagnetic simulation branch of Flomerics, Plc. with their products MicroStripes and Flo/EMC was acquired. In 2009 CST acquired SimLab Software GmbH, a Munich software company with expertice on cable harness and PCB simulation.

2012 CST introduced a new method for the efficient simulation of systems and component assemblies: System Assembly and Modeling (SAM).<ref>CST STUDIO SUITE 2012: System Assembly and Modeling, Microwave Journal, Horizon House, Dec. 2011</ref>