Cadence OrCAD PCB Designer Suite

OrCAD PCB Design Suites provide the industry's best mix of cutting edge capabilities and tremendous user value. With OrCAD suites you can be assured you have the technology you need to meet today's toughest design challenges.

Capability
Cadence^® OrCAD^® PCB Design Suites contain all the capabilities necessary to quickly and effectively bring your PCB design project to market. The combination of schematic entry, PCB editing, and simulation and analysis tools, create a fully integrated design flow to take you from concept to production. At the professional level additional functionality is added for auto/interactive routing as well as interfaces for manufacturing, and mechanical CAD. OrCAD Design Suites provide the best combination of performance and features for the price.

Predictability
The PCB Design Suites contain proven Cadence OrCAD and Allegro^® technology for a consistent design process. These tools have been some of the most popular in the industry because they deliver predicable results. Translation issues are eliminated by using tools designed to work together, saving time and reducing errors. Designers can be sure they won't hit roadblocks or encounter unexpected challenges with the OrCAD tools.

Scalability
These OrCAD suites provide excellent scalability with a variety of options to add capabilities as your design needs increase. Check out the suites tab to learn about the packages we offer. Options include: 256 layer autorouting, component data management, FPGA PCB co-design, full signal integrity analysis, advanced analysis and analog mixed signal simulation.

Benefits:

• Proven, scalable, cost-effective PCB editing and routing solution that grows as needed
• Provides a complete interconnect environment
• Includes a comprehensive feature set
• Features a front-to-back constraint management system for constraint creation, management, and validation
• Increases productivity through application integration

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OrCAD PCB Designer suites provide the industry's best mix of cutting edge capabilities and tremendous user value. With OrCAD suites you can be assured you have the technology you need to meet today's toughest design challenges.

	PCB Placement & Interactive Etch Editing Cadence OrCAD PCB Editor is an easy-to-use PCB layout editing tool for creating and editing simple to complex PCBs. PCB Placement & Interactive Etch Editing Cadence OrCAD PCB Editor is an easy-to-use PCB layout editing tool for creating and editing simple to complex PCBs. Based on production-proven Allegro® PCB technology, OrCAD PCB Editor’s extensive feature set addresses a wide range of today’s design and manufacturability challenges. OrCAD PCB Editor provides a powerful and flexible set of floorplanning tools and shape-based shove/hug interactive etch creation and editing. Interactive, shape-based, any-angle, push/shove routing allows users to quickly solve interconnect challenges. Dynamic shape capability offers real-time copper pour plowing/healing functionality during placement and routing iterations.  PCB layout editing tool for creating and editing simple to complex PCBs.
	Industry-Standard Schematic Entry Cadence OrCAD Capture is the most widely used schematic design solution, supporting both flat and hierarchal designs from the simplest to the most complex. Industry-Standard Schematic Entry Cadence OrCAD Capture is the most widely used schematic design solution, supporting both flat and hierarchal designs from the simplest to the most complex. Seamless bi-directional integration with Cadence OrCAD PCB Editor enables data synchronization and cross-probing/placing between the schematic and the board design. OrCAD Capture allows designers to back-annotate layout changes, make gate/pin swaps, and change component names or values from board design to schematic using the feedback process. It also comes with a large library of schematic symbols and can export netlists in a wide variety of formats.
	3D – ECAD/MCAD Design & Collaboration View and share your design in 3D with full STEP model support. OrCAD PCB Editor makes it easy to ensure your design will fit BEFORE you build it. 3D – ECAD/MCAD Design & Collaboration View and share your design in 3D with full STEP model support. OrCAD PCB Editor makes it easy to ensure your design will fit BEFORE you build it. OrCAD PCB Editor supports import of mechanical elements such as the enclosure to view in the context of your PCB project. Easily review your design for potential clash’s using realistic 3D models. OrCAD also provides a powerful bi-directional collaboration mechanism using the industry standard IDX format to pass design changes iteratively back and forth between ECAD and MCAD domains. Using this method you can quickly review any changes and they impact as well approve or reject changes and send status updates back to your MCAD counterparts. OrCAD PCB Editor makes sure you are able to stay in synch with the mechanical design requirements in virtual real-time.
	Automated Routing Technology Cadence SPECCTRA® for OrCAD solves the challenges of complex interconnect routing with powerful, automated technology. Automated Routing Technology Cadence SPECCTRA® for OrCAD solves the challenges of complex interconnect routing with powerful, automated technology. This robust, production-proven autorouter includes a batch routing mode with extensive user-defined routing strategy control as well as built-in automatic strategy capability. SPECCTRA for OrCAD achieves faster, more efficient routing using algorithms that look at the design and draw from a library of proven strategies based on the design’s content. It then configures and executes the router as required.
	Simulation & Full Signal Integrity Analysis Integrated Simulation & Full Signal Integrity Analysis is a requirement to ensure compliance with many of the high speed standard interfaces in use today. Simulation & Full Signal Integrity Analysis Integrated Simulation & Full Signal Integrity Analysis is a requirement to ensure compliance with many of the high speed standard interfaces in use today. OrCAD PCB SI provides a fully integrated pre and post layout signal integrity analysis environment, but what really makes it stand out is direct integration into the OrCAD PCB Editor constraint manager. This integration into the PCB design flow allows you to generate design constraints directly from your simulation results, an ability not offered by other PCB tools.
	Production Proven and Scalable OrCAD PCB design technologies combine production-proven OrCAD and Allegro technologies into comprehensive front to back solutions. Production Proven and Scalable 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. 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, and they reflect the Cadence commitment to and investment in powerful, easy-to-use PCB design technology. Technology is shared across the OrCAD and Allegro product lines, so the design suites can easily be upgraded from the OrCAD line to the Allegro platform. This migration is done without the need to translate databases or libraries, learn new applications, or change use models.

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OrCAD 16.5 has been reconfigured into a Lite, Standard, and Professional offering. With these offerings users can be more selective about which features they pay for by purchasing the suite with the tools they require for their design projects. Below is a summary of the Suites and their features, you can also view the Complete Feature Matrix.

Feature	OrCAD PCB Design Suite Standard	OrCAD PCB Design Suite Professional	OrCAD PCB Professional with PSpice
Capture Schematic Entry
PCB Editing
Differential Pair Support
Physical and Spacing Rules
Electrical Rules and Constraints
Manufacturing Outputs
3D Visualization
Signal Integrity Analysis
Autorouting
256 Layer Autorouting		Option	Option
Analog Simulaiton with PSpice		Option
PSpice Advanced Analysis		Option	Option
Component Data Management	Option	Option	Option
FPGA PCB Co-Design	Option	Option	Option
Advanced SI Analysis	Option	Option	Option

OrCAD PCB Designer Lite
OrCAD Lite is a free software that allows for evaluation and experimentation with OrCAD PCB software; introducing users to all the features and functionality available in OrCAD technology. OrCAD Lite is designed to give users a real life OrCAD experience, and is a great introductory PCB design tool for the less experienced designer. Demos in the Lite version include an OrCAD-level PCB Editor, OrCAD Capture, CIS, SPECCTRA for OrCAD, PSpice A/D, and advanced analysis.

OrCAD PCB Designer Standard
OrCAD Standard replaces older basic versions of OrCAD. Features include schematic entry, PCB editing, manufacturing outputs, 3D visualization, and the option to add component data management, FPGA PCB co-design, and full signal integrity analysis.

OrCAD PCB Designer Professional
OrCAD Professional includes more functionality for constraint management, advanced PCB editing, and upgraded placement. The Professional Suite brings advanced technology to the mainstream, allowing designers to define rules in the initial stages of the design process using a simple spreadsheet interface. This constraint-driven design flow accelerates the time to first-pass design success, while reducing the overall costs of end products. With constraint manager you can define rules for: Individual nets, differential pairs, regions, specific layers, specific rules for nets on layers, and more.

PCB Designer Professional allows for advanced PCB editing by providing full differential pair support. This support allows for automatic pair generation, interactive routing, and real time rule checking using Constraint manager. Users can receive instant feedback on whether they are meeting routing requirements with a real-time heads up display. Automated testpoint and fixture generation is also included in the Professional Suite.

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