Solve Your Toughest PCB Design Challenges with OrCAD
Your CAD tool should provide you with feedback when you need it, as you design, so you can make intelligent design decisions up front.  Get out of the Design – Check – Fix – Repeat cycle with the real-time design features only available in Cadence. With real-time design feedback, identify issues as they happen so you can address them when they are easiest to solve.
The pace of change in electronics can be intense. You need a solution designed to keep up and grow with your needs. Stay ahead of the competition, technology changes, and innovate faster with the industry’s only fully-scalable design platform.
Getting boards back from manufacturing can be a nerve-racking experience, but it does not have to be. With the advanced DFM rule checking, real-time feedback, and analysis capabilities in OrCAD you can be confident your design will be up and running the first time.
OrCAD is built to support you from concept to production and beyond. With OrCAD, address all your design challenges in a single, unified environment.  Seamlessly get your design done on-time, the first-time by leveraging tools built to help you design for peak productivity, accuracy, and speed. Experience the future of PCB design with OrCAD.
Design entry is powered by the world’s most used schematic capture solution, OrCAD Capture. Used on countless designs across all industries and levels of complexity, OrCAD Capture provides the perfect mix of ease of use and functionality to support your design requirements.
Over half of design cycle time can be spent in placement and routing. Complete even your most complex design with accuracy and speed with the industry’s leading PCB implementation solution and see how PCB design is meant to be.
Know your design is ready for production with our complete set of analysis and simulation options. Run thousands of design scenarios, identify, and fix issues before the first physical prototype is ever produced.
Sending your design to production can be a tense experience. Many have come to expect manufacturing changes and issues to happen, slowing the design cycle and often leading to long nights and weekends for the engineering team. It doesn’t have to be that way. Go to manufacturing with confidence knowing you have been checking for manufacturing issues along the way with our real-time DFM checking and rules support.
Keeping track of design revisions, managing part availability and compliance, and updating your PLM can seem like another job. OrCAD provides automated capabilities to handle these necessary tasks quickly and efficiently without having to leave your CAD environment.Â
Your design is often part of a whole and as such, will need to be managed in a company PLM system or similar. Easily synchronize your design data with PLM and surface contextual data from PLM such as corporate-approved part numbers directly in your CAD tool and ensure a smooth transition to production.
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Explore the full breadth of OrCAD technologies. Designed to scale with your needs, you can easily select the technologies required to solve your unique design challenges while maintaining a common, flexible design environment that can grow as you do.
Powerful, comprehensive PCB design packages
Complete PCB Design Solutions Including:
Schematic | Layout | Routing | Manufacturing | Analysis
Advanced virtual prototyping solutions for first pass PCB success
Complete Analog / Mixed Signal Analysis Including:
Schematic | SPICE simulation | Reliability Analysis | Electro-Mechanical SimÂ
One of the most powerful design environments for taking today’s product creation from concept to production. Quickly, easily, and intuitively create complex schematic designs with hierarchical, reuse, and variant design capabilities.
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Make your design requirements an inherent part of the design process. A unique, wizard-based approach quickly defines requirements for your critical nets (such as DDR) and drive this data into PCB implementation for accurate and fast PCB layout and routing.
Access OrCAD Capture wherever you are with OrCAD Capture cloud. View, design, and evaluate schematics all within your browser.
OrCAD PCB Editor provides a concept to production design environment. Achieve design success with powerful PCB Design capabilities, scalable design environments and proven technology.
Quickly create the necessary manufacturing drawings to drive PCB Fabrication and Assembly with OrCAD Documentation Editor. With intelligent automation, complex PCB documentation is created accurately in a fraction of the time, ensuring manufacturing success.
Easily identify issues in your design created during the manufacturing process with OrCAD DFM Checker. Perform a comprehensive manufacturing analysis while you design and address potential issues before fabrication to avoid time-to-market delays and costly re-designs.
PCB Clustering for OrCAD provides AutoClustering technology, intelligent design (IP) reuse, and replication technology that can significantly reduce board placement time.
OrCAD Productivity Toolbox provides a comprehensive suite of utilities designed to increase efficiency throughout the PCB design. With the enhancement and optimization of existing PCB layout capabilities, you can save time on monotonous tasks and focus on design.
Optimize your designs and improve reliability, predictability, yield, and cost with an industry-leading, complete circuit simulation and verification solution.
Detect and correct signal and power integrity issues throughout your PCB design with the integrated technology of Sigrity Aurora. Sigirty Aurora users can perform pre-layout analysis using “what-if” scenarios to develop accurate design constraints and confirm circuit functionality with in-design and post-layout analysis ultimately reducing design iterations.
Easily screen a PCB design for signal quality without having to be a signal integrity expert. With Sigrity go beyond the simple geometry-based DRC and evaluate the entire design for impedance discontinuities, excessive crosstalk, return path discontinuities and more.
Develop physically-realizable electronics ready for manufacturing and ensure success of your RF/Microwave designs with AWR. AWR allows you to model, simulate and verify all aspects of your design, including complex integrated circuits, packaging and PCB’s.
Control your design data without ever leaving the OrCAD environment with revision control for schematic, PCB, and components. With OrCAD Engineering Data Management you can communicate, track changes, and ensure accurate and efficient team collaboration.
Part creation, verification and management is made easy with OrCAD CIP. Streamline your design process with a centralized part database to ensure the correct symbols and footprints are used by the entire team.
Optimize part selection and ensure design success by analyzing components for availability, compliance, and reliability during schematic creation within OrCAD.
Frustration-free part purchasing and BOM creation with live distributor information directly within OrCAD.
Seamless integration between your PCB Design environment and your PLM, MRP or ERP systems ensures design success by incorporating product lifecycles and inventory into your design decisions.
