parallel systems
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Overview

Level Up Your Skills with OrCAD X

Parallel Systems are delighted to offer all UK and Ireland electronic students their own personal copy of OrCAD X Professional Plus for the period of study (worth £20,000), completely free for you.

Click here to request your free academic license

Work with the same advanced tools used by top industry professionals to design electronic devices that you use every single day. With access to the latest schematic, simulation, and layout tools from OrCAD X, easily take your design ideas from concept to reality.

Click here to request your free academic license

What’s Included in Your Free Academic License

You’ll have access to both the OrCAD X PCB design suite and PSpice advanced simulation tools. Your download will include:

  • Access to create schematics for electronic circuit design
  • Access to the Component Information System (CIS) for part management
  • Browse part pricing and availability, and download libraries for millions of parts
  • Run and analyse your PSpice simulations
  • Access to PSpice modelling apps
  • Import models from the web and use them in your design right away
  • Design and simulate PCBs
  • Perform signal integrity analysis

Students

Gain hands-on-experience and build the skills you need for the real world, get involved with an engineering competition or finish that school project you’re working on.

Educators

Whether for your classroom, lab, or a special project - enhance student engagement by fostering creativity and helping them master essential design and engineering skills.

Researchers

Explore what's possible to design the future. Go beyond classroom teachings and fundamental research to push circuit capabilities and performance to new levels.

Proof of standing

Engineering expertise, built since 1997.

A Cadence approved software, training and services partner for engineering and procurement teams across the UK and Ireland.

1997

Supporting electronic design teams since.

UK + IE

Local software, training and support.

EDA

From schematic capture to sign-off.