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Academic Program

Provides students, educators, and research clubs with a complete suite of design and analysis tools

Level Up your skills with OrCAD X

Level up your skills with the same tools used by top industry professionals to design electronic devices that you use every single day. With access to the latest schematic, simulation and layout tools from OrCAD X, easily take your design ideas from concept to reality quickly.

What’s Included in Your Academic Trial

During your trial period, you'll have access to both OrCAD X and PSpice standard tools. Your download will include the following capabilities as listed below:

Create Schematics for Electronic Circuit Design

Access to the Component Information System (CIS) for part management

Browse Part Pricing and Availability, and Download Libraries for Millions of Parts

Run and Analyze Your PSpice Simulations

Access to PSpice Modelling Apps

Import Models from Web, use them in your design right away

Design and Simulate Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs)

Perform Signal Integrity Analysis

In order to qualify for an academic trial, a valid academic email is required. If you have any questions, contact our University Program here.

University Success Stories

Leading universities from around the world are using OrCAD’s cutting-edge technology to help students design their electronic circuits.

As a result of using the OrCAD solutions for PCB development, "home2net" has achieved a 30% faster development cycle, has reduced costs by 15%, and can readily meet its stringent time-to-market goals.

Home2Net Success Story

We purchased OrCAD Layout and it was good value for money. We felt that it was not meeting the requirements for today’s high-speed technology and complex designs, and were pleased to hear that the product was to be upgraded. The new, OrCAD PCB Designer utilizes the highly regarded Allegro PCB Design Editor which has brought greater efficiency in component placement and routing; we were very impressed with the way it handled routing in planes/copper pouring etc. Library management is significantly improved and there is a general feeling of increased productivity. It is fully compatible with the high-end Allegro product range

Jim Hurford

Dayford Designs

OrCAD PCB Designer with PSpice provides my business with an integrated development tool that works from the first schematic concept, through simulation and on to product realization - all straight out of the box. It's even useful during hardware debug as the link between the Capture and PCB Designer allows for quick and easy track tracing. Add in the effective and intelligent customer support and you have a first-class package. OrCAD Capture allows me to get on with the job of designing electronics without having to fight my software. From jobs with 10 components on a single sheet through to complex hierarchical systems with 30 schematic pages, Capture has handled it all.

Craig Britton

Supply Design

We chose PSpice for several reasons. The availability and selection of models is vast and updated online. Time saving features like the Checkpoint Restart allows me to store simulation states at various time-points and then restart simulations from any of the simulation states. All in all its a great product and is a key part of our design team. I can see why it is the industry standard.

Paul Overton

Viper Subsea

As a result of using the OrCAD solutions for PCB development, "home2net" has achieved a 30% faster development cycle, has reduced costs by 15%, and can readily meet its stringent time-to-market goals.

Home2Net Success Story

We purchased OrCAD Layout and it was good value for money. We felt that it was not meeting the requirements for today’s high-speed technology and complex designs, and were pleased to hear that the product was to be upgraded. The new, OrCAD PCB Designer utilizes the highly regarded Allegro PCB Design Editor which has brought greater efficiency in component placement and routing; we were very impressed with the way it handled routing in planes/copper pouring etc. Library management is significantly improved and there is a general feeling of increased productivity. It is fully compatible with the high-end Allegro product range

Jim Hurford

Dayford Designs

OrCAD PCB Designer with PSpice provides my business with an integrated development tool that works from the first schematic concept, through simulation and on to product realization - all straight out of the box. It's even useful during hardware debug as the link between the Capture and PCB Designer allows for quick and easy track tracing. Add in the effective and intelligent customer support and you have a first-class package. OrCAD Capture allows me to get on with the job of designing electronics without having to fight my software. From jobs with 10 components on a single sheet through to complex hierarchical systems with 30 schematic pages, Capture has handled it all.

Craig Britton

Supply Design

We chose PSpice for several reasons. The availability and selection of models is vast and updated online. Time saving features like the Checkpoint Restart allows me to store simulation states at various time-points and then restart simulations from any of the simulation states. All in all its a great product and is a key part of our design team. I can see why it is the industry standard.

Paul Overton

Viper Subsea