Trade-Up to OrCAD 16.6
OrCAD® customers running older versions can trade-up to OrCAD 16.6 for a fraction of the standard cost. Take advantage of this offer to move up to the latest in PCB design technologies.
Why OrCAD 16.6?
OrCAD release 16.6 brings new features, enhanced customization capabilities, and a 20% simulation performance improvement. Below are just a few of the features that have been added in the past few releases and are available in OrCAD 16.6:
Schematic Entry (OrCAD Capture & CIS)
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- New schematic entry/signal integrity flow
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- Intuitive FPGA design-in capabilities
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- Significant performance increase for CIS operations with large databases
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- User customization through Tcl
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- Tcl-based customization for CIS Explorer, design rule checks, menus, and toolbars
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- Embedded Images and OLE support
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- Configure multi-variable support for CIS fields
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- Net Grouping & Bus aggregation
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- Enhancements to NetGroup
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- Differential pair definition and rules support
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- Quick-place for common components
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- Data management including component distributor
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- Enhancements to the Find function allow searches for parts by value of a given property
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- Net Grouping & Bus aggregation
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- OrCAD Marketplace and downloadable OrCAD Apps
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- Full support for previous OrCAD versions
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- Numerous usability & performance enhancements
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- Relational Database and BOM support
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- Windows 7 support (32 & 64 bit)
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Full Version History
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| - Parameterized rectangular shapes |
- Region shape assignments |
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- New display option overlays net names |
- New net highlight method |
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- Move elements outside class structure |
- New design defaults can be automatically seeded |
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- Select by “lasso” or “path” |
- Maintain engineering notes as part of the database |
- DRC by window area
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- Full front to back PCB design flow
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- Component alignment enhancements |
- Differential pair setup and routing
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- Negative plane enhancements |
- Constraint driven PCB design with electrical, physical, and spacing rules |
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- Replace padstack updates |
- Associative dimensioning
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- Status Bar & Visibility updates |
- Advanced DFM checking |
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- Add Circle update |
- Jumper support
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- Automated Testpoint Generation
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- Support for Fillets and Tapered traces |
- Integrated SI analysis (Pre & Post)
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- Stacked and split via support
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- Multi-Core online DRC support
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- Industry leading place & route technologies (interactive and automated)
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| - Native 3D visualization |
- User customization through Tcl
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- OrCAD Marketplace and downloadable OrCAD Apps
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- Full support for previous OrCAD versions |
- Windows 7 support (32 & 64 bit)
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Full Version History
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- Multi-core capability for significant PSpice performance increase |
- Probe .dat upgrade to 64-bit precision |
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- Quick pick-place of PSpice Parts |
- Fully integrated Analog and Signal Integrity simulation & analysis environments |
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- Upgraded model encryption with 256-bit support |
- New OrCAD PCB SI with 2.5D field solver |
- Tcl-based customization
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- PSpice Probe updates with multiple usability and visualization enhancements |
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- Enhanced IBIS support (5.0) |
- Create and Read Encrypted PSpice models
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- Advanced convergence and simulation control option |
- Many additions to the already 30,000 PSpice models available
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- UNDO support for captured netlists enables quick "what-if" scenarios |
- BSIM4 Support
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- Get meaningful results faster with Checkpoint Restart & Auto Convergence
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- Full support for previous OrCAD versions
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- Windows 7 support (32 & 64 bit)
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Full Version History
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See all the new features in OrCAD 16.6 here.
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