DatasheetTo stay competitive in today’s market, engineers must take a PCB design 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.
Increasing design density, complexity, and faster edge rates create a multitude of signal integrity issues, which can lead to time-consuming and frustrating simulatefix- simulate iterations and increased production costs. Cadence OrCAD Signal Explorer helps engineers address signal integrity issues throughout the design process— from the very beginning of the cycle through placement and final routing. Seamless integration with Cadence OrCAD PCB Editor eliminates database conversion and possible translation issues. Engineers can now perform signal integrity analysis or topology exploration at any stage of the design cycle—when the board is partially or fully placed, partially or fully routed, and even when no netlist or PCB database exists.
Benefits
- Enables pre- and post-layout signal integrity analysis at any stage of the - design cycle, ensuring constraint adherence
- Enables the exploration, analysis, and design of interconnect topologies to increase circuit reliability, improve circuit performance, and reduce prototype re-spins
- Eliminates need to translate design databases to run simulations by importing extracted topologies directly from OrCAD PCB Editor
- Easy-to-use model editing environment creates, manipulates, and validates a variety of models, quickly improving model/simulation performance
features
- Sigxplorer - OrCAD Signal Explorer provides an electrical view of the physical interconnect and a simulation cockpit for analysis of critical high-speed signals
- Spice-based simulation environment - The Tlsim simulation engine combines the advantages of traditional SPICE-based structural modeling with the speed of behavioral analysis.
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)