OrCAD PCB Designer
Comprehensive PCB solution with advanced place and route technology


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.

Related Products
.png)
OrCAD Capture CIS
Schematic Entry
Easy to use schematic capture environment to plan your circuit design.
.png)
PSpice
Analog & Mixed-Signal Simulations
Accurate modeling, validation and design optimization to ensure design functionality.
InspectAR
Augmented Reality Toolkit
Utilize AR to enhance debugging and visualization on your PCBA before manufacturing.

Resources
Interested in purchasing?
Request a quote and we’ll get in touch with you!
Explore PCB Designer

















