Powerful schematic entry, professional level simulation and analysis in one affordable package
In today’s engineering design environment, electrical engineers are asked to perform a variety of challenges in a fraction of the time. Along with schematic entry, circuit simulation is becoming an integral part of the schematic design process. Recognizing this need, Cadence® has created the Cadence OrCAD® EE Designer plus suite—a highly integrated front-end design solution with Cadence OrCAD Capture, Cadence PSpice® AD and PSpice Advanced Analysis in a single package.
To stay competitive in today’s 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.
Advanced Simulation Technology
OrCAD PCB Designer with PSpice included's the de facto industry standard PSpice A/D giving full-featured analog simulator with support for digital elements to help solve virtually any design challenge—from high-frequency systems to low-power IC designs. The powerful simulation engine is fully integrated with OrCAD Capture schematic entry tool, improving time to market and keeping operating costs in check. An interactive, easy-to-use graphical user interface provides complete control over the design process. Availability of resources such as models from many vendors, built-in mathematical functions, and behavioral modeling techniques make for an efficient design process.
Advanced analysis
The Cadence PSpice Advanced Analysis Option is used in conjunction with PSpice A/D to improve design performance, yield, and reliability. With PSpice Advanced Analysis capabilities, designers can automatically maximize the performance of circuits. Capabilities such as temperature and stress analysis, electro-mechanical simulation, worst-case analysis, Monte Carlo, and automatic performance optimization algorithms improve the quality of designs and maximize circuit performance automatically. PSpice A/D also allows users to design and generate simulation models for transformers and DC inductors.
Benefits
- Provides fast, intuitive schematic editing
- Boosts schematic editing efficiency through design reuse
- Automates the integration of field programmable gate arrays (FPGA's) and programmable logic devices (PLD's)
- Makes changes quickly through a single spreadsheet editor
- Determining which components are over-stressed using Smoke analysis or observing component yields using Monte Carlo analysis helps prevent board failures
- Imports and exports every commonly used design file format
- Faster simulation times, higher reliability, and better convergence on larger designs
- Explores design relationships with “what if” scenarios before committing to hardware
- Explores circuit behavior using basic DC, AC, noise, and transient analyses
- Offers library selection of more than 18,000 analog and mixed-signal models
- New simulation performance technology saves time, improves reliability, and aids convergence on larger designs
- Offers solutions that can be tailored to fit specific design needs and budget requirements, maximizing investment with a low cost of entry and ownership
- Optional MATLAB Simulink interface allows system- level interfaces to be tested with actual electrical designs emulating real world applications
- Tightly integrated applications provide a seamless data flow, ensuring data integrity
- Availability of resources such as multi vendor models, built-in mathematical functions, and behavioral modeling techniques enable an efficient simulation process
- Single-button simulation, cross-probing, and full integration with OrCAD Capture improves productivity and data integrity
- Magnetic Parts Editor saves time and reduces errors by automating the design of inductors and transformers
System Requirements
- Pentium 4 (32-bit) equivalent or faster
- Windows XP Professional, Vista Enterprise
- Minimum 512MB (1G or more recommended for XP and Vista Enterprise requirements)
- 300MB swap space (or more)
- CD-ROM drive
- 65,000 color Windows display with minimum 1024 x 768 (1280 x 1024 recommended)
OrCAD Suites
The OrCAD Suites are built upon the proven OrCAD technologies of OrCAD Capture, OrCAD Capture CIS, OrCAD PCB Designer, Specctra for OrCAD and PSpice, the OrCAD suites offer the flexibility to choose the appropriate solution tailored to meet the specific needs of your design challenge:
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