OrCAD X

Design Fast, Correct, Connected.

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Unmatched capacity for designing

Welcome to an era of PCB design where your common commands are elevated, visibility into your design is increased, and your experience is streamlined. You have known all along what Cadence tools are capable of, and it is time to combine that potential with the relief of intuitive design.

With OrCAD X we have provided updates and improvements to create a more modern experience that new users expect, and engineers who have been with us for decades will greatly appreciate. A completely new layout environment, unmatched capacity for designing, and a vital, hybrid-cloud approach to team collaboration, component libraries, design reuse, and data management empowers engineers to design boldly.

Personalize, connect, design

Every engineer is operating at such variable scales of complexity these days, your design interface should not be part of that complexity. OrCAD X introduces personalization and flexibility to the UI along with increased visibility, automation, and cloud connectivity, allowing you to have clear focus on what matters… designing.

Comfort at every stage

The new OrCAD X is built with an optimal layout environment, tested rigorously to improve adoption, workflow, visibility, and to reduce unnecessary mouse travel and clicks. Minimize on-screen clutter and maximize your available screen real-estate, automate repetitive tasks, and complete your PCB design faster than ever.

Hybrid Cloud Flexibility

We have expanded the core of OrCAD to include Allegro technology and our OnCloud structure. Cloud-enabled design means collaborative and intuitive; data management, project management, library management, and part creation. Brought to you through unified storage and access.

Personalize, connect, design

Every engineer is operating at such variable scales of complexity these days, your design interface should not be part of that complexity. OrCAD X introduces personalization and flexibility to the UI along with increased visibility, automation, and cloud connectivity, allowing you to have clear focus on what matters… designing.

Comfort at every stage

The new OrCAD X is built with an optimal layout environment, tested rigorously to improve adoption, workflow, visibility, and to reduce unnecessary mouse travel and clicks. Minimize on-screen clutter and maximize your available screen real-estate, automate repetitive tasks, and complete your PCB design faster than ever.

Hybrid Cloud Flexibility

We have expanded the core of OrCAD to include Allegro technology and our OnCloud structure. Cloud-enabled design means collaborative and intuitive; data management, project management, library management, and part creation. Brought to you through unified storage and access.

Features

Artificial Intelligence

Collaborate with AI to improve your efficiency

Automated place and route technology improves the speed of layout dramatically, and can improve efficiency of the final design by optimizing routing and layers

LiveDOC

Real-time dynamic updates for your design data and final documentation

Define the layout and content of your final documentation and manufacturing information early in the design cycle, use or create a template, and LiveDOC will dynamically update in real-time with any changes made to the parent design ensuring accurate and up to date information without time consuming rework.

Design for Manufacturability (DFM)

Ensure Design Manufacturability

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

Constraint Engine

Allegro power meets OrCAD familiarity

Use the trusted, entire Allegro constraint engine for the first time in OrCAD to tackle any level of complexity in your designs.

Always available snapping, grid controls

Built with intuitive visibility and access in mind

At-a-glance visibility and access for functions that you use frequently.

Part Manager

Robust part creation and manager

Part manager makes sourcing, purchasing, and updating based on part availability easy. Additionally, it ensures that you can receive and give real-time updates to existing part libraries.

All Legacy Capabilities

Same OrCAD, but better

Nothing removed, only improved. All legacy functionality exists, with additions and enhancements to make your next project easier than ever.

OrCAD X Presto PCB Editor

New Layout Environment for OrCAD X

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!