Resource Library
Posted on Jul 18, 2017
This week’s Working with OrCAD video, Creating a New design, discusses the multiple ways to create a new design within OrCAD. It also reviews Cadence project manager and where to set up basic information to get started.
Posted on Jul 6, 2017
This week’s Working with OrCAD video, DRC, will discuss how OrCAD can help easily resolve DRCs in your design. The video will cover how view DRC counts, review, waive, or fix them and reports you can execute which provide a secondary set of checks.
Posted on Jun 14, 2017
This week’s Working with OrCAD video, Constraint Manager, discusses how the constraint manager constitutes the central focus point within OrCAD. This allows the designer to control the physicality of their design, making it the heart and soul of Cadence design products. In this video, you will learn how to leverage the constraint manager to create error-free designs, the four types of constraint sets, and net grouping within the system.
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.) which can help you work more efficiently with your manufacturer to come up with a cost-efficient stack up or build. The video will also cover two different ways to enter the stack up information into your design either by manually entering the information into the setup cross-section dialog or via the IPC2581 standard— these methods help ensure your designs are accurate and can be repeatedly produced correctly.
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 Apr 5, 2017
Whether you are a new user or current customer our new video series, Working with OrCAD, will walk you through the basics of designing a board within OrCAD PCB Editor from start to finish. We will build a board from start to finish—covering libraries, placement, post-processing, etc.—and include a segment on how our constraint manager can assist you in your design process.
Posted on Jan 31, 2017
They’re coming for you, and they’re coming with everything they’ve got. Your competition has set their sights on your company, your product, you. What can you do, as the PCB designer, to make better products, faster?
Posted on Feb 26, 2016
Roost is a startup using OrCAD to developed an internet enabled battery that can fit in existing smoke alarms to alert you via your phone or internet connected device about the battery getting low well before you get to the chirping phase (and at a reasonable time of day as well).