OrCAD PCB Design
Solve Your Toughest PCB Design Challenges with OrCADYou need a dependable PCB design tool that can scale with your growing business. See why PCB design teams across the world depend on OrCAD to create high quality, reliable products.
Over 50,000 Engineers & Counting
Instant Design Feedback While You Work
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.
Architected to Scale With You
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.
Get Your Design Right the First Time
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.
Complete PCB Design Innovation Platform
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.
Create
Industry Standard Schematic Capture
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.
Easy & Intuitive
Quickly create clear and concise multi-page, hierarchical schematics with ease. Compare versions, generate bill of materials (BOM), and create pdf documentation at the touch of a button.
Integrated
Always know what changed with seamless sync of data between logical and physical. Integrated simulation engines let you perform analysis inside your schematic design environment, preventing rework and data loss.
Correct by Construction
Say goodbye to late-stage design changes with instant design feedback. Easily define and validate your design intent with real-time design rules checks, constraint definition, and pre-layout SI analysis. Then, seamlessly pass this data along to implementation—setting you up for design success right from the start.
Libraries Included
Be productive immediately with access to millions of popular CAD symbols footprints, and 3D models directly within the software. Libraries are the last thing you want to worry about and with OrCAD, you no longer have to.
Design
Design with Precision and Accuracy
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.
Powerful Route Engine
Built on the Allegro PCB Editor architecture equals an unmatched placement and routing experience. 64-bit performance, real-time updates and feedback, intuitive interactive and automated routing, as well as comprehensive rules and route guidance support give you the tools needed to complete your designs fast and with confidence.
Instant Design Feedback
Don’t wait until the end of the project to find all the issues you need to fix and change. Get instant feedback as you design with on-canvas guidance and notifications, so you can solve issues before they have a chance to become an ECO.
Integrated 3D Engine
View, manipulate, and evaluate your design in 3D right from within the PCB design platform. Identify collisions, see how your design performs during flex bends, and view the effects of mechanical elements such as heat sinks and enclosures in realistic 3D. Quickly adjust and see changes update instantly.
Scalable & Extensible
As your needs grow, so can your design tool. Our unique, scalable architecture allows you to seamlessly add capabilities like advanced routing and team design as needed, all leveraging the same data model eliminating any needs for translation.
Analyze
Comprehensive Analysis and Simulation
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.
In-design Analysis
Analyze your data where it is. Cadence analysis is deeply connected to the PCB design platform to provide quick and accurate analysis so you can easily take action. No clunky translation or time spent pushing data between tools.
Actionable Insights
Easily visualize and identify the impact of your analysis results. From improving yield and identifying parts likely to fail to displaying results of multi-gigabit simulations, you will have the guidance you need to make the right decision based on your simulations.
Optimize and Verify
Analyze your design at all stages of the process. Identify optimizations and test design alternatives early where the cost of change is lowest. Then take advantage of our unmatched accuracy and capacity to perform final sign-off and verification, all in one platform.
SI, PI, Thermal, and SPICE
Leverage a full suite of analysis engines and explore all aspects of your design from analog mixed-signal, signal integrity, power integrity, and even thermal affects. Mix and match engines easily to meet your design requirements and move to production with confidence.
Build
Go to Manufacture with Confidence
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.
Instant DFx Feedback
If you can't build it, you can't release it. Leverage real-time DFx (manufacturing, test, fabrication, and assembly) checks as you design and get instant feedback if a potential manufacturing issue will occur.
Automated Manufacturing Outputs
Generating the correct files and providing accurate and clear documentation is critical for design success. With OrCAD, ensure a smooth manufacturing process without manual effort by automatically generating your design documentation and manufacturing output files.
Effortless MCAD Integration
Ensure fit and function by seamlessly synchronizing your design with mechanical before you build. Easily communicate and track changes between ECAD and MCAD so everyone is on the same page and your project is on track for success.
DesignTrue DFM
Collaboration with your manufacturing partner early and often is key to success. Bring this collaboration into your design with the DesignTrue DFM partner program. Easily bring your manufacturing partners' design rules into your design and build a true, correct-by-construction flow by checking your design against your intended manufacturing line as you go.
Manage
Your Data Where You Need it, When You Need it.
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.
Automated Revision Control
Get rid of the needless email chains and finger pointing to try and figure out who changed what when. Easily manage design revisions with automated check-in, check out, easy roll-back, and complete design version history at your fingertips.
Seamless Team Design
When working in a team, ensuring everyone is on the same page is critical. Effectively collaborate with quick and easy definition of project responsibilities and access, and seamless communication among multiple team members.
Component Sourcing and Library Management
Reduce errors and remove redundancy through the deploy of a shared library that can be accessed by your engineering team. Augment component library data with part pricing, availability and lead times, and automatically update your projects as data changes. Make your part library a competitive advantage not a design challenge.
Enterprise Integration
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.
Products
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.
Design Suites
OrCAD PCB Designer Suite
Powerful, comprehensive PCB design packages
Complete PCB Design Solutions Including:
Schematic | Layout | Routing | Manufacturing | Analysis
Starting at $1,300 / year
OrCAD PSpice Designer Suite
Advanced virtual prototyping solutions for first pass PCB success
Complete Analog / Mixed Signal Analysis Including:
Schematic | SPICE simulation | Reliability Analysis | Electro-Mechanical Sim
Starting at $2,400 / year
Schematic Entry
OrCAD Capture
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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PCB Layout & Routing
OrCAD PCB Editor
OrCAD PCB Editor provides a concept to production design environment. Achieve design success with powerful PCB Design capabilities, scalable design environments and proven technology.
Analog & Digital Simulation
PSpice
Optimize your designs and improve reliability, predictability, yield, and cost with an industry-leading, complete circuit simulation and verification solution.
Libraries & Data
OrCAD Engineering Data Management
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.
How to Buy
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For Students
Students have access to a full OrCAD academic license.