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PCB Editor
contains full-featured PCB editor based on Allegro technology; its extensive feature set addresses a wide range of today’s design challenges and manufacturability concerns.
Cadence® OrCAD® PCB Editor is an intuitive, easy-to-use, constraint-driven environment for creating and editing simple to complex PCBs. It contains a fully integrated design flow that includes a constraint manager, design capture technology, component tools, a PCB editor, an auto/interactive router, and interfaces for manufacturing and mechanical CAD. OrCAD PCB Editor provides powerful, features that deliver controlled automation to maintain user control, while maximizing routing productivity. It also provides a powerful and flexible set of floorplanning tools, and etch creation/editing in a highly productive interconnect environment. The software can generate a full suite of phototooling, bare-board fabrication and test outputs.
Benefits:
- Offers a proven, scalable, easy-to-use PCB editing and routing solution that grows as needed
- Tight, front-to-back application integration increases productivity and ensures data integrity
- A comprehensive feature set delivers a solution to take a design from concept to production
- Common database architecture, use model, and library make collaboration simpler
- Feature set addresses a wide range of design and manufacturability challenges
- Allows engineers to explore various design configurations before committing to a specific circuit implementation
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PCB Layout and Editing
OrCAD PCB Editor, an interactive environment for creating and editing simple to complex, multi-layer PCBs. The extensive feature set addresses...
PCB Layout and Editing
OrCAD PCB Editor, an interactive environment for creating and editing simple to complex, multi-layer PCBs. The 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/ 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.
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Comprehensive Routing Modes
Shove-preferred, hug-preferred, and hug-only routing modes allow for advanced user control ensuring that routing is efficient.
Comprehensive Routing Modes
Shove-preferred, hug-preferred, and hug-only routing modes allow for advanced user control ensuring that routing is efficient.
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Shove-preferred routing mode allows users to construct the optimum interconnect path while the real-time, shape-based router takes care of dynamically pushing obstacles. Routes will automatically jump over obstacles such as pins or vias.
- Hug-preferred routing mode is the perfect solution when a databus needs to be constructed. In hug-preferred mode, the router contour follows other interconnect as a priority and only pushes aside or jumps obstacles when there is no other option.
- Hug-only routing option performs like the hug-preferred mode, but without the push-and-shove aggression on other etch objects. The real-time, embedded, shape-based routing engine optimizes the route by either pushing obstacles or contour-following obstacles while dynamically jumping vias or component pins.
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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.
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Dynamic Shape Technology
Dynamic shape technology offers real-time copper pour plowing/healing functionality. Shape parameters can be applied at three different levels.
Dynamic Shape Technology
Dynamic shape technology offers real-time copper pour plowing/healing functionality. Shape parameters can be applied at three different levels.
Parameters are structured into global, shape instance, and object-level hierarchies. Traces, vias, and components added to a dynamic shape will automatically plow and void through the shape. When items are removed, the shape will automatically fill back in. Dynamic shapes do not require batch autovoiding or other post-processing steps after edits are made.
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Design for Manufacturing
A full suite of photo-tooling, bare-board fabrication and test outputs, including Gerber 274x to help design for manufacturing.
Design for Manufacturing
A full suite of photo-tooling, bare-board fabrication and test outputs, including Gerber 274x to help design for manufacturing.
Bare-board tests can be generated in a variety of formats. More importantly, OrCAD PCB Editor supports the industry initiative towards Gerber-less manufacturing through its Valor ODB++ interface that also includes the Valor Universal Viewer. The ODB++ data format creates accurate and reliable manufacturing data for high-quality, Gerber-less manufacturing.
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Constraint and Rules-driven Methodology
Floorplanning and Placement use a constraint and rules-driven methodology that drives a powerful and flexible set of placement capabilities,
Constraint and Rules-driven Methodology
Floorplanning and Placement use a constraint and rules-driven methodology that drives a powerful and flexible set of placement capabilities,
including interactive and automatic component placement. The engineer or designer can assign components or subcircuits to specific “rooms” during design entry or floorplanning. Components can be filtered and selected by reference designator, device package/footprint style, associated net name, part number, or the schematic sheet/page number. With thousands of components on today’s boards needing precise management, real-time assembly analysis and feedback increases the designer’s productivity and efficiency by placing components to corporate or EMS guidelines.
A constraint management system displays physical and spacing rules.Each worksheet provides a spreadsheet interface that enables the user to define, manage, and validate the different rules in a hierarchical fashion. This powerful application allows designers to graphically create, edit, and review constraint sets as graphical topologies that act as electronic blueprints of an ideal implementation strategy. Once the constraints are present in the database, they are used to drive the placement and routing processes for constrained signals. The constraint management system is completely integrated with the PCB editor.
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OrCAD PCB Editor
Version History: 16.6 | 16.5 | 16.2 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 10.5 | 10.3
16.6 Features and Enhancements
Productivity Enhancements
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Parameterized rectangular shapes
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Select by “lasso” or “path”
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DRC by window area
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Component alignment enhancements
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Negative plane enhancements
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Replace padstack updates
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Status Bar & Visibility updates
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Add Circle update
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Region shape assignments
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New net highlight method
Embedded Net Names
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New display option overlays net names
– Clines
– Pins
– Shapes
– Flow lines
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Enabled by default
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Requires OpenGL
Moving Elements Outside Class Structure
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Permits select elements to be moved outside present class/subclass structure
– Elements limited to lines, line segments, text & rectangles
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Supported in ‘General Edit’ application mode
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RMB to access ‘Change Class/Subclass’ command
Design for Manufacturing Enhancements
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Artwork Control Form/Drill updates
– RS274X now supports output of shape with voids overlapping other shapes
– Film names have been increased from 17 to 46 characters
– Artwork will suppress Null pads when unused pad suppression is enabled
– Photoplot.log now has a warning if un-defined line width is set to 0
– Initial artwork parameters now defaults to same unit type as board
– Creating new drill data will now report the number of holes to the allegro status line
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Thieving updates
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Option to generate separate plated / non-plated route files
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Pastemask DRC updates
Generic Tech File Support
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New tech file export option “Generic”
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Hierarchical layer mappings
– Top, Internal, Plane, Bottom
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Import into a “N” layer board
– Cross section not impacted
New Design Defaults
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New designs can be automatically seeded with default template design or just default units / accuracy
– Template design can contain anything; units/accuracy, parameters (including colors), constraints or physical data
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Units/accuracy can be set by product types via additional env. variables
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Defaults can also be set by variables (units and accuracy)
Database Diary
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Maintain engineering notes as part of the database
16.5 Features and Enhancements
New Suites:
- OrCAD PCB Designer Standard (formerly Basics 16.3, but without limitations of numbers of pins and net layers).
- OrCAD PCB Designer Professional
(formerly Designer, with a larger number of high speed features, constraint management capabilities, and included signal integrity analysis)
- General Updates (All Tiers)
- Changes in the GUI
- Access the status bar: Classes, Sub-Classes, and the Super Filter Modes applications and selections are available by the bar status of the tool.
- Textures of the color: Fixtures are differentiated with filling and customizable. Each color panel coloring can be completed by a texture.
- Zoom in window Pick: This function is very useful to refresh the display on a point or precise coordinates.
- Differentiation between insulation and short-circuit DRC’s: Net Shorting the DRC are short-circuits and recognized as such in the error count DRC’s.
- New Commands
- Minimum Metal to Metal DFF checks: Ensures that the distance between objects and copper is inspected, particularly when certain spacing rules are disabled.
- Duplicate Drill hole: This audit checks for overlapping holes at the same coordinates.
- Table of Cross-Section: This new command allows creation of a cross section image of the PCB with all types of vias used on design.
- Placement: The import file placement now includes an option to import of components to contact with the face and the angle indicated in the file place_txt.txt.
- Viewing Via Label: As soon as a blind via, buried or μvia is used, its label can be displayed.
- Placement Mode
- Environment dedicated to placement tasks
- Single click to move a component.
- Accessible by simply passing through the object.
- Alignment of components
- Placement Replication and (including etch)
- Other Updates
- 3D Display: Added option for dynamic update of PCB layers.
- File lock: When sharing files, it is quite possible to have multiple open instances of the same file. The *. Lck file now protects the edited file from being overwritten.
- Output behavior of pad: When Enhanced Pad Entry option is selected when routing or slide the pads based on a form of shape are now recognized.
- Delete Via Structure: The structure of vias created with the fanout command can now be deleted.
- Color: The Color View window has a Save option Flip Preserve State.
- Editor Symbols:
- A package can be created without shape Place Bound.
- A mechanical pin can be changed simply by adding Connect a text on subclass pin_number.
- Constraints and High Speed Design (PCB Professional Only)
- Differential Pair Support: Differential pairs can be routed according constraints / DRCS recognized by the constraint Manager (Primary Gap, Length uncoupled, coupled Tolerance, Gap & Neck width ...).
- Rules by zones (Regions)
- The stress areas are present in the Structure Constraint Manager.
- Rules routing and Physical Spacing by Region,
- Region-Class, Region Class-Class, Same net
- Differential pair gap / Width, Layer ...
- Min Max Etch Length Constraints: Total Etch Length control is possible on the net in the Constraint Manager with a minimum and maximum distance.
- Delay Tuning: The length adjustment (Delay Tune) is available using forms of elongation type accordion, trombone and teeth saw.
- Automated Test Prep: Automatically generate test points for test fixtures in PCB
16.2 Features and Enhancements
- Etch edit applications
- Manufacturing applications
- Padstack enhancements
- Design-level DRCs
- Productivity enhancements
- Miscellaneous productivity enhancements
- Color and graphics
- Miscellaneous manufacturing applications and interfaces
- Database enhancements
16.0 Features and Enhancements
- Usability / new use model
- PCB Editor user interface
- Color and visibility enhancements
- Physical and Spacing constraint system
- New PCB Editor application modes
- Miscellaneous PCB Editor enhancements
- OrCAD Layout translator updates
15.7 Features and Enhancements
- OrCAD Layout to OrCAD PCB Editor support
- New class of soldermask DRCs
- Soldermask clearance
- New Room_Type properties for DRC flexibility
- Copy command
- Auto-save
- NC Legend enhancements
10.5 Features and Enhancements
- Thieving
- NC Drill
- Interactive etch editing improvements
- Usability enhancements
- Interfaces enhancements
- Library editor enhancements
- Miscellaneous enhancements
10.3 Features and Enhancements
- Introduction of OrCAD PCB Editor based on Allegro PCB Editor technology
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