OrCAD PCB Designer Standard
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This page describes detailed features of the OrCAD PCB Designer Standard Suite.
The suite includes:
OrCAD Capture
Cadence PCB Editor Standard
OrCAD SigXplorer,
OrCAD PSpice AD AA Lite
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| PCB EDITOR | |
| VIDEO | Physical, Spacing, Same net, Netclass and Class to Class rules |
| VIDEO | DFM Pad Entry / Exit Rules |
| VIDEO | Dynamic pad suppression / Unused Pad removal |
| VIDEO | Cross Section Editor |
| VIDEO | STEP 3D In/Out |
| VIDEO | Padstack Editor IPC2581 Compliant |
| VIDEO | Interactive Routing using Working Layer (layer selection popup) |
| VIDEO | Multiple placement options, manual, quickplace, auto and room |
| VIDEO | Placement directly from schematic, individually or window select |
| VIDEO | Dynamic Shapes (dynamic copper pours) Plow and Heal |
| VIDEO | Push, Shove and Hug interactive editing |
| VIDEO | Embedded net names |
| VIDEO | Curve Routing |
| VIDEO | Auto Finish (Route Completion Tool) |
| VIDEO | Through Board Transparency (OpenGL) |
| VIDEO | Multi‐line routing (Group Routing) |
| VIDEO | Fan‐out generators |
| VIDEO | Flip Board |
| VIDEO | Excellon NC Drill File export |
| VIDEO | Gerber 274X, 274D artwork Output |
| VIDEO | IPC2581 Import / Export |
| VIDEO | Mentor® ODB++ and universal viewer |
| VIDEO | DFM Checks including soldermask, solderpaste and more |
| VIDEO | Dynamic rat suppression |
| VIDEO | Move with autoroute adjust (Slide) |
| VIDEO | Route cleanup, optimization (Glossing) |
| VIDEO | Impedance Calculator |
| VIDEO | Interactive / Automatic Silkscreen generation |
| VIDEO | Blind Buried Single Click multiple via instantiation |
| VIDEO | Manual Design For Test (DFT) / Test Prep |
| VIDEO | Component Height DRC |
| VIDEO | Aligment x and y for components and modules |
| VIDEO | Associative Dimensioning |
| VIDEO | Split View |
| VIDEO | Snake Routing for Hex pattern ICs |
| VIDEO | STEP 3D viewer for selected item or complete PCB. |
| VIDEO | MCAD/ECAD Incremental design data exchange (IDX) |
| VIDEO | Import Altium PCB (schematic also available) |
| VIDEO | Import EAGLE PCB (schematic also available) |
| VIDEO | Import PADS & PCAD |
| VIDEO | Import IFF RF Shapes |
| VIDEO | Import Export IDF DXF STEP |
| VIDEO | Application Mode (General, Etch, Placement) |
| VIDEO | Application Mode (shape) |
| VIDEO | Scribble Sketch Routing |
| VIDEO | Full Skill Support |
| VIDEO | Group route Bus Route and via patterns |
| VIDEO | Line Fattening |
| VIDEO | Differential Pair Static Phase Control rules |
| VIDEO | Differential Pairs Physical rules and routing |
| VIDEO | Floating Networked License |
| VIDEO | 12 Months Maintenance Support Included In Purchase Price |
| SCHEMATIC ENTRY + DATA MANAGEMENT | |
| VIDEO | Graphical, flat and hierarchical page editor and Picture block hierarchy |
| VIDEO | OrCAD Marketplace to download OrCAD apps |
| VIDEO | OrCAD PSpice AD Lite (up to 75 nodes) |
| VIDEO | Net Groups - Complex bus definition |
| VIDEO | AutoWire |
| VIDEO | 44,000 Schematic symbols |
| VIDEO | Coloured Components / nets |
| VIDEO | Tcl TK scripting support |
| VIDEO | Online design rule check including custom DRC capability and Waive DRC |
| VIDEO | Forward and back-annotation of properties / pin-and-gate swaps |
| VIDEO | Schematic Part and Library editor |
| VIDEO | Cross-probing and cross-placing |
| VIDEO | FPGA design-in / pin import & export |
| VIDEO | Multiple PCB netlist interfaces |
| VIDEO | SI Topology creation |
| VIDEO | Digi-Key (PartLink App) Component Parametric data directly from web |
| VIDEO | Property editor for pins, components, nets |
| VIDEO | OrCAD SigXplorer SI Analysis |
| VIDEO | Intelligent PDF creation |
| VIDEO | Advanced Annotation |
| VIDEO | Design Compare (detail and Graphical) |
| VIDEO | Default Demo designs |
| VIDEO | Extended Preferences |
| VIDEO | Export ISCF (Intel Schematic Connectivity Format) |
| VIDEO | Export / Import XML |
| VIDEO | Altium Importer Schematic (PCB also available) |
| VIDEO | Eagle Importer Schematic (PCB also available) |
| VIDEO | OrCAD PSpice AD Lite (up to 75 nodes) |
| SIGNAL INTEGRITY | |
| VIDEO | Pre- & Post-route signal integrity analysis |
| Graphical topology definition and exploration | |
| Interactive waveform viewer | |
| Macro modelling support (DML) | |
| IBIS 5.0 support | |
| IBIS ICM model support | |
| Spectre-to-DML | |
| HSPICE-to-IBIS | |
| Lossy transmission lines | |
| Coupled (3 net) simulation | |
| Differential pair exploration and simulation |
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