OrCAD PCB Designer

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OrCAD PCB Designer

Comprehensive PCB solution with advanced place and route technology

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From prototype to production

OrCAD® PCB Designer is a tiered, scalable PCB design solution that delivers advanced capabilities and highly integrated flows. Use real-time design insights to go from prototype to production in fewer respins.

Manufacture your designs with confidence by utilizing real-time design rule checks to identify and resolve issues along the way.

Key Benefits

Intelligent Place and Route

Quickly place and route PCBs with the various routing options, real-time visual cues and interactive checks. Easily achieve propagation delay and signal length goals to meet your design requirements.

Integration and Productivity

Analyze and optimize your designs with integrated signal integrity workflows and ensure design compliance with constraint management. Complete your designs fast and signoff with confidence.

ECAD-MCAD Co-Design

Reduce unnecessary design iterations between your mechanical and electrical teams. Support for IPC-2581, STEP and IDX allows for visualizing designs in 3D and communicating design changes effectively between ECAD and MCAD teams.

Features

Impedance Analysis

Identify impedance discontinuity issues visually, without simulation models or extensive signal integrity expertise.

Design Automation

Utilize auto-assisted design features such as fanouts and via creation to tackle the repetitive nature of BGAs and other high pin-count devices to improve productivity while saving time.

Manufacturing

Easily create and assign constraints for manufacturing based on IPC standards and common PCB rules.

Miniaturization

Create, place and easily reuse blind, buried and micro via stacks in all your high density interconnect (HDI) and high-speed designs.

Design Reuse

Reuse proven design IP to save the time and burden of designing each project from scratch.

3D Rigid Flex

View your designs in interactive 3D, to visualize any part collisions and see how your board will flex and bend to ensure proper fit and function.

Design Rules

Use a simple spreadsheet-based interface to enter and manage your PCB design rules. With a constraint-driven design flow, you can easily capture your design rules and visually verify that they are being met in real-time as you design so you can get your designs done faster and with less stress at sign off.

Shape Management

Define, edit and dynamically update shapes instantly without waiting to repour polygons when you revise, reshape and plow through shapes when routing.

Impedance Analysis

Visualize and Resolve Impedance Issues

Identify impedance discontinuity issues visually, without simulation models or extensive signal integrity expertise.

Design Automation

Fanouts and Via Creation

Utilize auto-assisted design features such as fanouts and via creation to tackle the repetitive nature of BGAs and other high pin-count devices to improve productivity while saving time.

Manufacturing

Ensure Design Manufacturability

Easily create and assign constraints for manufacturing based on IPC standards and common PCB rules.

Miniaturization

Blind, Buried and Microvias

Create, place and easily reuse blind, buried and micro via stacks in all your high density interconnect (HDI) and high-speed designs.

Design Reuse

Ensure Quality

Reuse proven design IP to save the time and burden of designing each project from scratch.

3D and Rigid Flex

Design Visualization

View your designs in interactive 3D, to visualize any part collisions and see how your board will flex and bend to ensure proper fit and function.

Design Rules

Powerful Rule Manager

Shape Management

Real-time Shape Updates

Define, edit and dynamically update shapes instantly without waiting to repour polygons when you revise, reshape and plow through shapes when routing.