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DATASHEET
Cadence OrCAD PCB design
technologies are available in the
following suites:
• Cadence OrCAD PCB Designer
Basics
• Cadence OrCAD PCB Designer
• Cadence OrCAD PCB Designer
with PSpice
• Cadence OrCAD EE Designer
• Cadence OrCAD EE Designer Plus
DES I G N S U I T E S
Cadence® OrCAD® PCB design suites combine industry-leading,
production-proven PCB design applications to deliver complete
schematic entry, simulation, and place-and-route solutions. These
solutions provide engineers and designers powerful, intuitive, and
integrated tools that work seamlessly across the entire PCB design
flow from engineering through to manufacturing.
To stay competitive in today’s market, The scalable, cost-effective OrCAD
companies must move their designs PCB design suites provide integrated
all the way from engineering through front-end design/simulation technology
manufacturing while meeting ever- (Cadence OrCAD EE Designer) as well
shrinking design schedules. Cadence as an integrated back-end place-and-
OrCAD personal productivity tools have route design solution (Cadence OrCAD
a long history of addressing PCB design PCB Designer) to boost productivity and
challenges from simple to complex. accelerate time to market.
Available as standalone products
or in comprehensive suites, OrCAD
technologies allow designers to take
products from conception through to
final output.
The powerful, tightly integrated PCB
design technologies include OrCAD
Capture for schematic design, librarian
tools, OrCAD PCB Editor for place and
route, PSpice® A/D for circuit simulation,
OrCAD Signal Explorer for signal integrity,
and SPECCTRA® for OrCAD for automatic Figure 1: OrCAD PCB design suites provide a
complete place-and-route environment including
routing. Easy-to-use and intuitive, the interactive and automatic routing, cross-probing,
tools bring exceptional value and future- and constraint management.
proof scalability to the Cadence Allegro®
system interconnect design platform.
PRODUCTION-PROVEN
OrCAD PCB design technologies combine
production-proven OrCAD and Allegro
technologies into comprehensive front-
to-back solutions. Utilized in every market
segment and production environments at
leading high-tech companies, OrCAD PCB
design technologies are proven to help
meet aggressive schedules and technology
goals in today’s challenging design
environments.
BENEFITS
• Future-proof scalability with tiered and
segmented technology meets a wide
array of PCB design challenges and
requirements.
• Solutions can be tailored to fit specific
design needs and budget requirements,
maximizing investment with a low cost
of entry and ownership.
• Proven, scalable, easy-to-use PCB
design solutions boost productivity and
help meet project schedules.
• Tightly integrated applications provide a
seamless data flow, ensuring integrity.
FEATURES
OrCAD PCB design suites allow designers
to develop products from conception to
manufacturing output. Easy to use and
intuitive, OrCAD PCB design suites offer
exceptional value as well as scalability
to the Allegro platform to meet future
design demands.
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SCALABILITY
Unlike other PCB design solutions, OrCAD
PCB design suites can grow with future
design needs and technology challenges.
They provide a feature-rich, fully scalable
solution that can be expanded and
upgraded as PCB challenges and the level
of design sophistication grows.
OrCAD PCB design suites combine both
time-proven and new OrCAD technology,
Figure 2: Constraint Manager allows definition,
management, and validation of physical/spacing
and they reflect the Cadence commitment constraints, as well as user properties and design rule
to and investment in powerful, easy-to- checks (DRCs), through an easy-to-use spreadsheet
use PCB design technology. Technology
interface.
is shared across the OrCAD and Allegro SALES, TECHNICAL
product lines, so the design suites can
SUPPORT, AND TRAINING
easily be upgraded from the OrCAD line
to the Allegro platform. This migration The OrCAD product line is owned by
is done without the need to translate Cadence Design Systems, Inc., and
databases or libraries, learn new supported by a worldwide network of
applications, or change use models. Cadence Channel Partners.
OrCAD PCB design suites comprise For sales, technical support, or training,
the right mix of industry-standard contact your local Cadence Channel
technologies to meet a variety of current Partner. For a complete list of authorized
and future PCB design needs. Cadence Channel Partners, visit
www.cadence.com/Alliances/channel_
partner/pages/default.aspx.
OrCAD PSpice PSpice OrCAD SPECCTRA®
Capture A/D Advanced PCB for OrCAD
Analysis Editor
OrCAD PCB Designer Basics • •
OrCAD PCB Designer • • •
OrCAD PCB Designer with
• • Optional • •
PSpice
OrCAD EE Designer • • Optional
OrCAD EE Designer Plus • • •
Table 1: OrCAD PCB design suites offer the flexibility to choose a solution tailored to meet specific design needs.