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Schematic Entry and Board Layout

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OrCAD X Capture CIS

One of the most widely used and powerful schematic design solutions for the creation and documentation of electrical circuits. Take your product ideas from concept to production by utilizing the integrated part search dashboard, electrical rule checks, simulation support as well as hierarchical, reuse and variant design capabilities to improve productivity and get your designs right the first time.

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OrCAD X Presto PCB Editor

The new OrCAD X Presto PCB Editor is here! Design boldly with this new PCB layout environment fully compatible with the OrCAD PCB editor. Utilize the latest improvements in ease-of-use to take your actions from 10-clicks to 2-clicks and access the power of the Allegro constraint engine to improve your performance. Team workflow enhancements like real-time 2-person Symphony co-design, ECAD-MCAD Co-design, and data management for part updating and live document creation all make the OrCAD X Presto PCB Editor stand as the pinnacle of PCB design.

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OrCAD X

Freedom to be bold starts with a tool that you can use to its fullest capabilities.  OrCAD X brings a new era of Cadence PCB Design technology where Allegro power meets OrCAD useability in a brand new face for layout and beyond. Unleash the designer. Hybrid cloud connectivity, vast clickability improvements, and immense leaps in capacity yield an OrCAD like never before.

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PCB Designer

A tiered, scalable and powerful PCB design solution that delivers advanced capabilities and highly integrated flows that gives you the ability to expand as your designs and challenges increase in complexity. Take advantage of advanced place and route technology, 3D visualization, integrated signal integrity analysis, a constraint management system that provides real-time validation for length rules and more, as well as support for IPC-2581, STEP and IDX to streamline your manufacturing process.

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OrCAD PCB Productivity Toolbox

A comprehensive suite of utilities that improves the overall productivity and efficiency of PCB layout designers. Leverage a collection of design-time-reducing functions as well as advanced design-function enablers that enhance and optimize existing PCB layout capabilities.

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OrCAD X Free Viewer

A free download that lets you share and access a read-only version of your design data with your team for review and tracking progress of your design.

Design and Data Management

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OrCAD Engineering Data Management

A comprehensive data management environment that helps you manage your design data in OrCAD Capture. Ensure data integrity and project status management while eliminating the challenges associated with managing files across multiple users, locations, and disciplines.

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OrCAD Library Builder

An automated solution for part creation. Advanced PDF datasheet extraction drives schematic symbol and PCB footprint/land pattern creation, eliminating traditional error-prone manual processes and creating accurate component libraries in a fraction of the time.

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OrCAD Component Information Portal

A comprehensive database management and online component research environment that easily integrates into OrCAD Capture. The component information portal (CIP) enables design teams to quickly and cost-effectively realize the full benefits of a shared component database and effective component management process.

Simulation and Analysis

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PSpice Designer

Leverage the industry-leading, native analog, mixed-signal, and analysis engines to deliver a complete circuit simulation and verification solution. Whether you’re prototyping simple circuits, designing complex systems, or validating component yield and reliability, you can rely on the best, high-performance circuit simulation and advanced analysis technology to analyze and refine your circuits, components, and parameters before committing to layout and fabrication.

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OrCAD PCB SI

An integrated analysis environment that delivers powerful simulation technology to help find and address signal integrity (SI) issues throughout the design process—from circuit design in the schematic to board placement and routing. It enables pre- and post-layout topology exploration, signal analysis, and validation. Increase circuit reliability and drive known-good interconnect requirements throughout the PCB design flow to reduce re-spins.

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OrCAD Sigrity ERC

The Electrical Rules Check (ERC) enables PCB designers to screen a PCB design for signal quality without having to assign any simulation models or to be a signal integrity expert. Going beyond simple geometry-based DRC, the entire PCB design can be evaluated for impedance discontinuities, excessive crosstalk, and return path discontinuities. Reduce overall design time by not over-burdening the SI experts with signal quality issues that can be found and addressed during the PCB layout stage.

Design for Manufacturing

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OrCAD Documentation Editor

A PCB documentation-authoring tool that intelligently automates your documentation creation process to produce complex PCB documentation in a fraction of the time versus traditional methods. Developed in the style and use-model of Windows desktop applications, you can quickly create the manufacturing drawings that drive PCB fabrication and assembly.

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OrCAD Panel Editor

A PCB assembly (“array”) panel design tool that intelligently automates the panel definition and documentation process to produce simple or complex PCB assembly panels in a fraction of the time versus traditional manual methods. Developed with a highly intuitive style and use-model, you can quickly design your panel and create the manufacturing drawings that drive fabrication and assembly.

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OrCAD DFM Checker

A comprehensive, easy to use PCB manufacturing analysis technology that identifies specific design issues that may have an adverse effect on PCB fabrication. Designs that pass standard design rule verification may unknowingly contain critical issues that could result in low manufacturing or assembly yields, or costly scrap. DFM Checker enables you to correct potential manufacturing issues before the design is sent to the fabricator to avoid time-to-market delays.

Yellow warning icon over a component that needs to be swapped, highlighted in red and displayed on a rectangular PCB

OrCAD X Capture CIS

One of the most widely used and powerful schematic design solutions for the creation and documentation of electrical circuits. Take your product ideas from concept to production by utilizing the integrated part search dashboard, electrical rule checks, simulation support as well as hierarchical, reuse and variant design capabilities to improve productivity and get your designs right the first time.

A search table displaying information about the traces that are highlighted on the rectangular PCB

OrCAD X Presto PCB Editor

Say goodbye to learning curve and hello to productivity, OrCAD X Presto provides the power and technology of Allegro in a new user friendly interface. Navigate your designs with ease, effortlessly place & route, analyze & correct, and visualize your PCB like never before. The new MCAD collaboration, concurrent PCB layout, and integrated signal & power analysis redefines team design. Fully compatible with Allegro & OrCAD PCB Editors, maintaining full scalability for existing Cadence users. Elevate your design capabilities, boost efficiency, and bring your ideas to life like never before!

Two rectangular PCBs connected by two ribbon flex cables that highlight multiple components being placed on the board.

OrCAD PCB Designer

A tiered, scalable and powerful PCB design solution that delivers advanced capabilities and highly integrated flows that gives you the ability to expand as your designs and challenges increase in complexity. Take advantage of advanced place and route technology, 3D visualization, integrated signal integrity analysis, a constraint management system that provides real-time validation for length rules and more, as well as support for IPC-2581, STEP and IDX to streamline your manufacturing process.

An open red toolbox showcasing the different components used for PCB design

OrCAD PCB Productivity Toolbox

A comprehensive suite of utilities that improves the overall productivity and efficiency of PCB layout designers. Leverage a collection of design-time-reducing functions as well as advanced design-function enablers that enhance and optimize existing PCB layout capabilities.

A search table displaying information about the traces that are highlighted on the rectangular PCB

OrCAD X Free Viewer

A free download that lets you share and access a read-only version of your design data with your team for review and tracking progress of your design.

Identifying and highlighting components that need to be swapped on a square PCB

OrCAD Engineering Data Management

A comprehensive data management environment that helps you manage your design data in OrCAD Capture. Ensure data integrity and project status management while eliminating the challenges associated with managing files across multiple users, locations, and disciplines.

A 16pin IC with an overlay of its ECAD footprint

OrCAD Library Builder

An automated solution for part creation. Advanced PDF datasheet extraction drives schematic symbol and PCB footprint/land pattern creation, eliminating traditional error-prone manual processes and creating accurate component libraries in a fraction of the time.

A magnifying glass over a laptop screen displaying information from the OrCAD Component Information Portal

OrCAD Component Information Portal

A comprehensive database management and online component research environment that easily integrates into OrCAD Capture. The component information portal (CIP) enables design teams to quickly and cost-effectively realize the full benefits of a shared component database and effective component management process.

Yellow warning icon over a component that needs to be swapped, highlighted in red and displayed on a square PCB

PSpice Designer

Leverage the industry-leading, native analog, mixed-signal, and analysis engines to deliver a complete circuit simulation and verification solution. Whether you’re prototyping simple circuits, designing complex systems, or validating component yield and reliability, you can rely on the best, high-performance circuit simulation and advanced analysis technology to analyze and refine your circuits, components, and parameters before committing to layout and fabrication.

Isometric rectangular overlay of impedance analysis on a section of a PCB highlighting 3 traces with issues

OrCAD PCB SI

An integrated analysis environment that delivers powerful simulation technology to help find and address signal integrity (SI) issues throughout the design process—from circuit design in the schematic to board placement and routing. It enables pre- and post-layout topology exploration, signal analysis, and validation. Increase circuit reliability and drive known-good interconnect requirements throughout the PCB design flow to reduce re-spins.

Isometric square overlay of coupling analysis on a section of a PCB highlighting 3 traces with issues

OrCAD Sigrity ERC

The Electrical Rules Check (ERC) enables PCB designers to screen a PCB design for signal quality without having to assign any simulation models or to be a signal integrity expert. Going beyond simple geometry-based DRC, the entire PCB design can be evaluated for impedance discontinuities, excessive crosstalk, and return path discontinuities. Reduce overall design time by not over-burdening the SI experts with signal quality issues that can be found and addressed during the PCB layout stage.

Blueprints showcasing PCB manufacturing drawings

OrCAD Documentation Editor

A PCB documentation-authoring tool that intelligently automates your documentation creation process to produce complex PCB documentation in a fraction of the time versus traditional methods. Developed in the style and use-model of Windows desktop applications, you can quickly create the manufacturing drawings that drive PCB fabrication and assembly.

PCB Panelization with mouse bites

OrCAD Panel Editor

A PCB assembly (“array”) panel design tool that intelligently automates the panel definition and documentation process to produce simple or complex PCB assembly panels in a fraction of the time versus traditional manual methods. Developed with a highly intuitive style and use-model, you can quickly design your panel and create the manufacturing drawings that drive fabrication and assembly.

Highlighting 4 types of DRC issues that can be found on a design showcased on a square PCB

OrCAD DFM Checker

A comprehensive, easy to use PCB manufacturing analysis technology that identifies specific design issues that may have an adverse effect on PCB fabrication. Designs that pass standard design rule verification may unknowingly contain critical issues that could result in low manufacturing or assembly yields, or costly scrap. DFM Checker enables you to correct potential manufacturing issues before the design is sent to the fabricator to avoid time-to-market delays.

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