OrCAD PCB Design
Solve Your Toughest PCB Design Challenges with OrCAD
You 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.
KEY CAPABILITIES
Easy & Intuitive
Integrated
Correct By Construction
Libraries Included
DESIGN
Route 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.
KEY CAPABILITIES
Powerful Route Engine
Instant Design Feedback
Integrated 3D Engine
Scalable & Extensible
ANALYZE
Comprehensive Simulation and Analysis
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.
KEY CAPABILITIES
In-design Analysis
Actionable Insights
Optimize and Verify
SI, PI, Thermal, and SPICE
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.
KEY CAPABILITIES
Instant DFx Feedback
Automated Manufacturing Outputs
Effortless MCAD Integration
DesignTrue DFM
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.
KEY CAPABILITIES
Automated Revision Control
Seamless Team Design
Component Sourcing and Library Management
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.
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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.
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
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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Constraint Designer EE
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.
OrCAD Capture Cloud
Access OrCAD Capture wherever you are with OrCAD Capture cloud. View, design, and evaluate schematics all within your browser.
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.
OrCAD Documentation Editor
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.
OrCAD DFM Checker
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
PCB Clustering for OrCAD provides AutoClustering technology, intelligent design (IP) reuse, and replication technology that can significantly reduce board placement time.
Productivity Toolbox
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.
PSpice
Optimize your designs and improve reliability, predictability, yield, and cost with an industry-leading, complete circuit simulation and verification solution.
Sigrity Aurora
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.
Sigrity
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.
AWR
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.
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.
OrCAD Component Information Portal
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.
SE CONNECT BOM Risk
Optimize part selection and ensure design success by analyzing components for availability, compliance, and reliability during schematic creation within OrCAD.
UltraBOM
Frustration-free part purchasing and BOM creation with live distributor information directly within OrCAD.
Enterprise Connect
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.