CADENCE OrCAD PCB DESIGN SUITES

DATASHEET

Cadence OrCAD PCB design technologies are available in the following suites: Cadence OrCAD PCB Designer Basics Cadence OrCAD PCB Designer Cadence OrCAD PCB Designer with PSpice Cadence OrCAD EE Designer Cadence OrCAD EE Designer Plus
Cadence OrCAD PCB design suites combine industry-leading, production-proven, and highly scalable PCB design applications to deliver complete schematic entry, simulation, and place-androute solutions. With these powerful, intuitive tools that integrate seamlessly across the entire PCB design flow, engineers can quickly move products from conception to final output.
To stay competitive in todays market, companies must move their designs from engineering to manufacturing within evershrinking design schedules. Available as standalone products or in comprehensive suites, Cadence OrCAD personal productivity tools have a long history of addressing PCB design challenges, whether simple or complex. The powerful, tightly integrated PCB design technologies include OrCAD Capture for schematic design, various librarian tools, OrCAD PCB Editor for place and route, PSpice A/D for circuit simulation, OrCAD Signal Explorer for signal integrity analysis, and SPECCTRA for OrCAD for automatic routing. Easy to use and intuitive, these tools bring exceptional value and future-proof scalability to the Cadence Allegro system interconnect design platform to grow with future design demands. OrCAD PCB design suites provide integrated front-end design and simulation technology (Cadence OrCAD EE Designer) as well as an integrated back-end place-and-route design solution (Cadence OrCAD PCB Designer) to boost productivity and accelerate time to market.

BENEFITS

Future-proof scalability with tiered and segmented technology meets a wide array of PCB design challenges and requirements
Figure 1: OrCAD PCB design suites provide a complete place-and-route environment including interactive and automatic routing, cross-probing, and constraint management
Solutions can be tailored to specific design needs and budget requirements, maximizing investment with a low cost of entry and ownership Production-proven and easy-to-use PCB design solutions boost productivity and help meet project schedules Tightly integrated applications provide a seamless data flow, ensuring integrity
is done without the need to translate databases or libraries, learn new applications, or change use models.

PARTNERSHIPS/ ECOSYSTEM

Cadence understands the complex PCB design challenges of todays competitive market and the need for tailored solutions and support. Through our worldwide network of Cadence Channel Partners (VARs), were able to better serve a broader customer base with superior sales, support, and service.

FEATURES

PRODUCTION-PROVEN
OrCAD PCB design technologies combine production-proven OrCAD and Allegro technologies into comprehensive frontto-back solutions. Utilized in every market segment and production environments at leading high-tech companies, OrCAD PCB design technologies are proven to help meet aggressive schedules and technology goals in todays challenging design environments.
Figure 2: Constraint Manager allows definition, management, and validation of physical/spacing constraints, as well as design rule checks, through an easy-to-use spreadsheet interface
SALES, TECHNICAL SUPPORT, AND TRAINING
The OrCAD product line is owned by Cadence Design Systems, Inc., and supported by a worldwide network of Cadence Channel Partners (VARs). For sales, technical support, or training, contact your local VAR. For a complete list of authorized VARs, visit www.cadence. com/Alliances/channel_partner. PSpice A/D PSpice OrCAD Advanced PCB Analysis Editor SPECCTRA for OrCAD

SCALABILITY

Unlike other PCB design solutions, OrCAD PCB design suites can grow with future design needs and technology challenges. They provide a feature-rich, fully scalable solution that can be expanded and upgraded as PCB challenges and the level of design sophistication grows. OrCAD PCB design suites combine both time-proven and new OrCAD technology, and they reflect the Cadence commitment to and investment in powerful, easy-touse PCB design technology. Technology is shared across the OrCAD and Allegro product lines, so the design suites can easily be upgraded from the OrCAD line to the Allegro platform. This migration

Collaboration with third-party vendors/ OEMs extend OrCAD and Allegro PCB design solutions, providing complementary and custom design capability. This ecosystem leverages the strengths and synergies of Cadence and third-party technologies for the best possible solution and value to customers. OrCAD Capture OrCAD PCB Designer Basics OrCAD PCB Designer OrCAD PCB Designer with PSpice OrCAD EE Designer OrCAD EE Designer Plus

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Table 1: OrCAD PCB design suites offer the flexibility to choose a solution tailored to meet specific design needs * Limited database (layers, components, connections)
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CAD E NCE O R CAD P CB Des i g n S ui tes

DATASHEET

Cadence OrCAD PCB design technologies are available in the following suites:
Cadence OrCAD PCB Designer Basics Cadence OrCAD PCB Designer Cadence OrCAD PCB Designer with PSpice Cadence OrCAD EE Designer Cadence OrCAD EE Designer Plus
To stay competitive in todays market, engineers must take a PCBdesign from engineering through manufacturing with shorter design cycles, tighter project goals and faster time to market. To be successful, designers need a set of powerful, intuitive, and integrated tools that work seamlessly across the entire PCB design flow.
Cadence OrCAD personal productivity tools (including PSpice A/D and OrCAD Capture) have a long istory of addressing h these requirements. Available as standalone products or in comprehensive suites, OrCAD technologies allow designers to take products from conception to final output. The powerful, tightly integrated PCB design technologies include design capture, librarian tools, PCB editing/ routing, and analog/signal integrity simulators. Easy-to-use and intuitive, they offer exceptional value and future-proof scalability to the Cadence Allegro system interconnect design platform. To stay competitive in todays market, companies must get their designs from engineering through manufacturing with shorter design cycles. To increase their productivity, engineers need a set of powerful, intuitive, and integrated technologies that work seamlessly across the entire design flow. OrCAD
PCB design suites (including PSpice technology) have a long history of addressing these demands. The scalable, cost-effective OrCAD PCB design suites provide integrated front-end design/simulation technology (Cadence OrCAD EE Designer) as well as an integrated back-end place-and-route design solution (Cadence OrCAD PCB Designer) toboost p roductivity and accelerate time to market.
Figure 1:The OrCAD PCB Designer suite provides a complete place and route environment including interactive and automatic routing, cross-probing, and constraint management.

BENEFITS

Delivers future-proof scalability with tiered and segmented technology to meet a wide array of PCB design c hallenges and requirements Offers solutions that can be tailored tofit specific design needs and budget requirements, maximizing investment with a low cost of entry and ownership Delivers proven, scalable, easy-touse PCB design solutions that boost p roductivity and help meet project schedules Tightly integrated applications provide a seamless data flow, e nsuringdata integrity

SCALABILITY

Unlike other PCB design solutions, OrCAD PCB design suites can grow with future design needs and technology challenges. They provide a feature-rich, fully s calable solution that can be expanded and upgraded as PCB challenges and the levelof design sophistication grows. OrCAD PCB design suites combine both time-proven and new OrCAD technology, and they reflect the Cadence commitment to and investment in powerful, easy-to-use PCB design technology. Sharing technology across the OrCAD and Allegro product lines, OrCAD PCB design suites can easily be upgraded from the OrCAD product line to the Allegro platform. This migration is done without the need to translate databases or libraries, learn new applications, or change use models. OrCAD PCB design suites comprise theright mix of industry-standard t echnologies to meet a variety of c urrentand future PCB design needs.
Figure 2: Constraint Manager allows definition, management, and validation of physical/spacing constraints as well as user properties, and DRCs through an easy-to-use spreadsheet interface.
SALES, TECHNICAL SUPPORT, AND TRAINING
The OrCAD product line is owned by Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and s upported by a worldwide network of Cadence Channel Partners. For sales, technical support, or training, contact your local Cadence Channel Partner. For a complete list of authorized Cadence Channel Partners, visit www.cadence.com/partners/ channel_partner/index.aspx.

FEATURES

OrCAD PCB design suites allow designers to develop products from conception to manufacturing output. Easy to use and intuitive, OrCAD PCB design suites offer exceptional value as well as scalability to the Allegro platform to meet future design demands.
OrCAD Capture OrCAD PCB Designer Basics OrCAD PCB Designer OrCAD PCB Designer with PSpice OrCAD EE Designer OrCAD EE Designer Plus

PSpice A/D

PSpice Advanced Analysis

OrCAD PCB Editor

SPECCTRA for OrCAD

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Table 1: OrCAD PCB design suites offer the flexibility to choose the appropriate solution tailored to meet specific design needs
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