OrCAD Signal Explorer

 

 

 

 

 

To 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.

OrCAD Signal Explorer

Increasing design density, complexity, and faster edge rates create a multitude of signal integrity issues, which can lead to time-consuming and frustrating simulate fix- 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

Operating System

  • Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2003 Server, all Service Packs (32-bit only)
  • Windows XP Professional
  • Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit) except Home Basic.
  • Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit) except Home Premium

Note: Cadence SPB and OrCAD products do not support Windows 2000, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows NT operating system (versions 4.0 and earlier).

Hardware

  • Intel IA-32 compatible (includes Intel P4 EMT and AMD OpteronTM); 1.2 GHz minimum; 2.4 GHz or more is recommended.
  • DVD-ROM drive
  • Ethernet card (for network communications and security hostID)
  • Three-button Microsoft-compatible mouse

Note: Cadence SPB products do not support the IPF chip.

Minimum Hardware

  • 1 GB physical memory
  • 10 GB disk space
  • virtual memory should be at least double the available physical memory
  • 1024x768 resolution with 64,000 colours

Recommended Hardware

  • 2 GB physical memory
  • 50 GB disk space
  • virtual memory should be at least double the available physical memory
  • 1280x1024 Colour quality 32 bit graphics
    A dedicated graphics card is recommended.