To stay competitive in today's market, engineers must take a design from engineering through manufacturing with shorter design cycles and faster time to market. To be successful, you need a set of powerful, intuitive, and integrated tools that work seamlessly across the entire design flow.
Cadence® OrCAD® personal productivity tools (including Cadence® PSpice®) have a long history of addressing these demands. Designed to boost productivity for smaller design teams and individual PCB designers, OrCAD PCB design suites grow with your needs and technology challenges. The powerful, tightly integrated PCB design suites include design capture, librarian tools, a PCB editor, an auto/interactive router, and optional analog and mixed-signal simulator.
The affordable, high-performance OrCAD product line is easily scalable with the full complement of Cadence® Allegro® PCB solutions.
The OrCAD Suites are built upon the Proven OrCAD technologies:
OrCAD Capture
Cadence OrCAD Capture design entry is the world's most popular schematic entry system for a simple reason: fast and universal design entry. Whether you're designing a new analog circuit, revising the schematic diagrams for an existing PCB, or a block diagram of HDL modules, it gives you everything you need to complete and verify your design quickly. OrCAD Capture delivers the intuitive interface and rich feature set that has made OrCAD Capture the de facto industry standard for schematic design entry.
OrCAD Capture CIS
Cadence OrCAD Capture CIS includes a built-in component information system that reduces the amount of time you spend researching, manually entering and managing part data.
Select parts based on their electrical characteristics and Capture CIS automatically retrieves data needed by both purchasing and manufacturing and manages it from your schematic. If either the schematic or the centralized database change, you can update the data with a press of a button and confidently generate a complete, accurate Bill of Materials or netlist at any time.
PSpice A/D
Analog and mixed-signal designers rely on Cadence PSpice simulation solutions for accurate circuit simulations and the latest in simulation technology. Since the introduction of the first PSpice simulator in 1985, PSpice has been continuously enhanced to utilize the latest hardware and operating systems. Each subsequent generation has addressed numerous technological advances. The latest edition continues this tradition with new enhancement to the PSpice simulation engine and user interface.
OrCAD PCB Editor
For proven, scalable, cost-effective PCB Editing and RoutingThe Cadence OrCAD PCB Designer suite contains everything needed to take a PCB design from concept to production with a fully integrated design flow–including design capture, component tools, a PCB editor, and an auto/interactive router as well as interfaces for manufacturing, and mechanical CAD. A common database architecture, use model and library offer fully scalable PCB solutions for both OrCAD and Cadence Allegro product lines, giving you the ability to grow and expand as designs and design challenges increase in complexity. The results are increased productivity, shorter design cycles, and faster ramp up to volume production.
OrCAD Signal Explorer
Cadence OrCAD Signal Explorer provides a scalable, cost-effective signal integrity exploration and analysis environment for complex PCBs. It is tightly integrated with OrCAD PCB Editor. Topology extraction from OrCAD PCB Editor is communicated directly with OrCAD Signal Explorer eliminating database conversion and possible translation issues.