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Tutorials, news, snippets, and other various musings about the electrical engineering industry.
Posted on Jun 21, 2017
This week’s Working with OrCAD video, Copper, discusses and the many features Cadence provides designers when dealing with copper shapes in addition to a few design best practices. It covers how to add various types of solid copper elements,...
Tags: Working with OrCAD PCB Layout and Routing Allegro PCB Designer OrCAD PCB Editor OrCAD PCB Designer Suite Cadence OrCAD Cadence Allegro EMA Design Automation
Posted on Jun 14, 2017
This week’s Working with OrCAD video, Constraint Manager 2, discusses how the constraint manager within OrCAD products constitutes the central focus point. This allows the designer to control the physicality of their design, making it the heart and...
Tags: PCB Design Entry PCB Layout and Routing OrCAD PCB Designer Suite OrCAD PCB Editor OrCAD PCB Designer Suite Cadence OrCAD
Posted on Jun 9, 2017
The newest incremental OrCAD release is available now. In our effort to constantly be raising the bar, there are many new and exciting features now available including, but not limited to 3D Canvas enhancements in OrCAD PCB Editor. These incremental...
Tags: ECAD/MCAD Co-Design PCB Design Entry PCB Layout and Routing Simulation and Analysis OrCAD PCB Editor PSpice Advanced Analysis OrCAD PCB Designer Suite OrCAD PSpice Designer Suite Cadence OrCAD EMA Design Automation
Posted on Jun 7, 2017
This week’s Working with OrCAD video, Cross Section, will discuss how OrCAD can help you review design specs and determine physical requirements (i.e. controlled impedance high voltage nets, high amperage nets, etc.) to help you work more...
Tags: PCB Design Entry OrCAD PCB Designer Suite OrCAD PCB Editor OrCAD PCB Designer Suite Cadence OrCAD EMA Design Automation
Posted on Jun 2, 2017
“Throw it over the wall” has traditionally been the mindset when dealing with updates and changes between the ECAD and MCAD domains. As a result of this strategy, updates and synchronization points tend to be infrequent. When issues are found,...
Tags: ECAD/MCAD Co-Design OrCAD PCB Editor OrCAD PCB Designer Suite Cadence OrCAD Cadence Allegro EMA Design Automation
Posted on May 31, 2017
This week’s Working with OrCAD video, Placement, will explain OrCAD app modes, as well as different methods you can use to place parts.
Posted on May 26, 2017
Have you ever stopped to calculate how much time your team spends on building and maintaining CAD libraries?
Posted on May 24, 2017
This week’s Working with OrCAD video, Netlist In, will show you how to quickly and effectively get schematic information, including parts and nets, into your design.
Posted on May 19, 2017
PCB Clustering for OrCAD provides the tools necessary for you to place components quicker, inevitably speeding up the design process by automating tasks that have traditionally been done manually. In a previous post PCB Clustering for OrCAD:...
Posted on May 18, 2017
This week’s Working with OrCAD video, Symbol Creation, will showcase multiple ways to create a symbol and how the use of symbol templates can help save time. It also provides a brief overview on symbol editing and how to easily update symbols.