In today’s engineering design environment, electrical engineers are asked to perform a
variety of challenges in a fraction of the time. Along with schematic entry, circuit simulation
is becoming an integral part of the schematic design process. Recognizing this need,
Cadence® has created the Cadence OrCAD® EE Designer suite—a highly integrated
front-end design solution with Cadence OrCAD Capture and Cadence PSpice® AD in a
single package.
OrCAD EE Designer Plus includes:
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OrCAD Capture a comprehensive solution for entering, modifying, and verifying complex system designs quickly and cost-effectively
- PSpice A/D a full featured analog simulator with support for digital elements to help solve virtually any design challenge
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Cadence PSpice Advanced Analysis a suite of advanced analysis capabilities that help designers maximize circuit performance
- Provides fast, intuitive schematic editing
- Boosts schematic editing efficiency through design reuse
- Automates the integration of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and programmable logic devices (PLDs)
- Makes changes quickly through a single spreadsheet editor
- Imports and exports every commonly used design file format
- Faster simulation times, higher reliability, and better convergence on larger designs
- Explores design relationships with “what if” scenarios before committing to hardware
- Explores circuit behavior using basic DC, AC, noise, and transient analyses
- Offers library selection of more than 18,000 analog and mixed-signal models
OrCAD Capture offers a comprehensive solution for entering, modifying, and verifying complex system
designs quickly and cost-effectively. Whether used to design a new analog circuit, revise a schematic
diagram for an existing PCB, or design a digital block diagram with an HDL module, OrCAD Capture
allows designers to enter, modify, and verify the PCB design.
SCHEMATIC EDITING
The full-featured schematic editor enables users to place and connect parts from a comprehensive set of
functional libraries.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
The project manager enables users to collect and organize all the resources needed for the project
throughout the design flow.
HIERARCHICAL DESIGN AND REUSE
OrCAD Capture boosts schematic editing efficiency by enabling subcircuit reuse—without having to
make multiple copies.
LIBRARIES AND PART EDITING
The library editor is accessed directly from the user interface. Users can create and edit parts in the library
or directly from the schematic page without interrupting workflow.
EASY DATA ENTRY
Designers can access all part, net, pin, and title block properties or any subset and make changes quickly
through the spreadsheet property editor.
PSpice A/D is a full-featured analog simulator with support for digital elements to help solve virtually any
design challenge—from high-frequency systems to low-power IC designs. The powerful simulation engine
integrates easily with Cadence PCB schematic entry solutions, improving time to market and keeping
operating costs in check.
DESIGN ENTRY AND EDITING
PSpice A/D integrates seamlessly with the Cadence front-to-back PCB design flow, making it possible to
have a single, unified design environment for both simulation and PCB design. Select from a library of more
than 18,000 symbols and models for simulation to design with Cadence PCB schematic design entry
technology.
STIMULUS CREATION
Access built-in functions that can be described parametrically or draw piece-wise linear (PWL) signals
freehand with the mouse to create any shape stimulus.
CIRCUIT SIMULATION
Users can easily set up and run simulations, and then cross-probe simulation results from Probe, an industry-
standard waveform viewer.
MIXED ANALOG/DIGITAL SIMULATION
Integrated analog and event-driven digital simulations improve speed without loss of accuracy. A single
graphical waveform analyzer displays mixed analog and digital simulation results on the same time axis.
GRAPHICAL RESULTS AND DATA DISPLAY
Probe Windows allows users to choose from an expanded set of mathematical functions to apply to simulation
output variables.
MODELS
Included are a large variety of accurate internal models—which typically include temperature effects—that
add flexibility to simulations.
MODEL LIBRARY
Users can select from more than 18,000 analog and mixed-signal models of devices made in North America,
Japan, and Europe.
BEHAVIORAL MODELING
Functional blocks are described using mathematical expressions and functions, which allows designers to
leverage a full set of mathematical operators, nonlinear functions, and filters.
MAGNETIC PARTS EDITOR
The Magnetic Parts Editor helps designers overcome issues involved in manually designing transformers.
Users can design magnetic transformers and DC inductors, and generate simulation models for transformers
and inductors.
CHECKPOINT RESTART
This feature allows designers to store simulation states at various time-points and then restart simulations
from any of the simulation states, which saves time.
Using optional PSpice Advanced Analysis capabilities, designers can automatically maximize the performance
of circuits. Four important capabilities—sensitivity analysis, optimization, Smoke (stress analysis), and Monte
Carlo (yield analysis)—enable engineers to create virtual prototypes of designs and maximize circuit
performance automatically. Measurements across multiple simulation profiles can be processed together.
SENSITIVITY
The sensitivity option identifies which component parameters are critical to the goals of a circuit’s performance
by examining how each component affects circuit behavior by itself and in comparison to the other
components.
OPTIMIZER
The optimizer analyzes analog circuits and systems, fine-tuning designs faster than trial-and-error bench
testing. It helps find the best component values to meet performance goals and constraints.
SMOKE
The Smoke option warns of stressed components due to power dissipation, increases in junction temperature,
secondary breakdowns, or violations of voltage/current limits.
MONTE CARLO
Monte Carlo predicts the behavior of a circuit statistically when part values are varied within their tolerance
range.
PARAMETRIC PLOTTER
Once a circuit is created and simulated, the parametric plotter is used for sweeping multiple parameters. Any
number of design and model parameters (in any combination) can be swept and results viewed in tabular or
plot form.
- Pentium 4 (32-bit) equivalent or faster
- Windows XP Professional, Vista Enterprise
- Minimum 512MB (1G or more recommended for XP and Vista Enterprise requirements)
- 300MB swap space (or more)
- CD-ROM drive
- 65,000 color Windows display with minimum 1024 x 768 (1280 x 1024 recommended)