ECAD Inc, Santa Clara, California and Compact Software Inc of Paterson, New Jersey, have teamed up to introduce MiSym or Microwave Symbad, a set of microwave circuit design automation tools for the US Department of Defense Mimic Microwave Millimeter Wave Integrated Circuit programme: the chip design software MiSym is available now on DEC MicroVAX, and Apollo Computer and Sun Microsystems workstations.