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Tutorials, news, snippets, and other various musings about the electrical engineering industry.
Posted on Aug 10, 2017
Whether you’re a recent grad or just a newbie in the field, establishing ways to ensure your career is on the right path is essential. It’s not always as simple as doing your job well—how you approach your new position can be instrumental in your...
Posted on Aug 2, 2017
The recent release of the Cadence® OrCAD® Component Information Portal (CIP) enables designers to make better component selection decisions. Our “off-the-shelf” CIS management environment has been updated with new and enhanced features to make your...
Posted on Jul 21, 2017
Component decision making just got a whole lot easier with our most recent updates to Ultra Librarian® for OrCAD. Our goal is to provide you with a reliable source for component information and data through a seamless integration with OrCAD Capture...
Posted on Jul 6, 2017
The inherent need to address signal quality challenges is no longer limited to just high-end, high-speed, signal integrity experts. OrCAD provides an integrated analysis environment with powerful simulation technology beginning at the schematic...
Posted on Jun 30, 2017
Have you or your team ever designed a board with the intention of reusing the same parts and circuits in future projects? Oftentimes you will run into instances where portions of your circuitry could be used in multiple projects, yet you are forced...
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