CAD/CAM and New Design Technologies in High Energy Physics Electronics Applications

In the past few years, several significant new technologies related to electronics design, fabrication and testing, appear to have reached a level of maturity which makes them ripe for exploitation by high energy physics laboratories. This paper will review recent developments and trends, and will draw particularly from some examples at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Cost benefits as well as difficulties of implementing new technologies into relatively small laboratories will be examined.