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Key Benefits
Accelerate PCB Design and Leave Time-to-Market Challenges Behind
PCB Design Innovation and Efficiency
Experience accelerated design cycles with streamlined workflows, AI-driven automation, and cloud-based tools. Bring your product to market faster than ever.
Real-Time Cloud-Enabled Collaboration
Work seamlessly with your team, no matter where they are. Real-time collaboration ensures efficient communication and eliminates costly errors.
In-Design PSpice Circuit Simulation
Design with precision. Built-in PSpice analog and mixed-signal circuit simulation lets you perfect your circuit before it hits production.
Real-Time Component Insights and Supply Chain Visibility
Make smart decisions with up-to-date component and supply chain data. Ensure component availability and optimize costs without leaving your design environment.
Seamless Electronic and Mechanical Co-Design
Collaborate effortlessly on PCB form factor and enclosure designs with integration into leading mechanical design tools. Minimize iterations and make sure your board fits the first time.
Reliability in PCB Manufacturing Integrity
Avoid costly mistakes with built-in design for manufacturing (DFM) checks. Ensure your designs meet the requirements for fabrication and assembly right from the start.
Capabilities
Seamless PCB Software from Design to Manufacturing
Sourcing accurate, ready-to-use component data is one of the most time-consuming bottlenecks in PCB design for small teams and individual engineers. Ultra Librarian, now part of Cadence, eliminates this friction with a native integration directly inside OrCAD X, giving designers immediate access to over 18 million verified symbols, footprints, and 3D models from more than 2,500 manufacturers without ever leaving the design environment. Every model passes more than 30 verification tests and is built to IPC and ANSI standards, ensuring library quality without the manual overhead of building and maintaining parts in-house. Alongside each component, engineers can review real-time pricing, stock levels, lead times, and compliance data, and submit a fully managed bill of materials directly to a distributor for procurement, compressing the path from component selection to production-ready design.
OrCAD X Live BOM within OrCAD X Capture revolutionizes component management with real-time insights and market intelligence on over 1.6 billion parts from 3,600 suppliers. Powered by Sourcengine and Datalynq from Sourceability, it helps engineers tackle challenges like component availability, lifecycle risks, and compliance with standards such as REACH and RoHS. Identifying high-risk parts, suggesting suitable alternatives, and mitigating supply chain disruptions, making design decisions faster, smarter, and safer.
Built-in PSpice delivers a suite of advanced simulations to optimize circuits and resolve design issues early. Perform DC, AC, and transient analyses to understand performance across various domains, while Monte Carlo, Smoke, and worst-case analyses help account for component variability. With tools for noise analysis and parametric sweeps, industry-leading PSpice ensures your design remains stable, efficient, and error-free. Detect signal distortions, instability, and other issues before they escalate with the industry's top-tier simulation capabilities.
OrCAD X OnCloud provides a centralized, secure platform for seamless collaboration and efficient data management. This cloud-based solution eliminates version control headaches, streamlines workflows, and allows real-time team collaboration on library creation, design reviews, and more. With easy access to always up-to-date design data from anywhere, engineering teams can innovate faster and get to market quicker, all while maintaining control over designs.
Streamline communication between ECAD and MCAD teams with real-time bidirectional workflows. Avoid design conflicts, reduce costly revisions, and ensure accurate board placement. This push-button synchronization aligns electrical and mechanical design for a flawless fit, addressing enclosure, alignment, and thermal considerations early in the process. Say goodbye to manual file exchanges and hello to a fully integrated approach.
With OrCAD X, multiple engineers can work on the same PCB layout in real time, enabling unprecedented collaboration. Live updates, synchronized routing, and conflict resolution allow teams to work in harmony while reducing design cycle times. Handle placements, constraint management, and design reviews seamlessly with tools that keep everyone on the same page.
OrCAD X Constraint Management ensures PCB designs meet critical performance, reliability, and manufacturability demands. A unified interface across schematic and layout environments provides holistic rule enforcement, from clearances to trace widths. With dynamic feedback, hierarchical rule systems, and constraint grouping, staying compliant while managing complex designs is simpler and more effective than ever.
Optimize signal integrity with integrated Sigrity X Aurora’s impedance and coupling analysis right within the PCB layout environment. Evaluate trace impedance and electromagnetic coupling instantly, leveraging intuitive visual overlays and in-depth reports. Identify and resolve signal issues early in the process, reducing costly post-production rework. Unprecedented, intuitive workflows combined with powerful cross-referencing tools redefine precision and accelerate productivity.
Streamline manufacturing documentation with OrCAD X Live DOC. Automatically create accurate, up-to-date fabrication and assembly drawings with the click of a button. Customize interactive templates, add detailed annotations, and generate drill tables or component views directly from your design data. Automation significantly reduces errors and manual work, speeding up your design cycle.
Integrating real-time manufacturability checks directly into the PCB layout, OrCAD X Design for Manufacturing improves quality and reduces production costs. Detect and resolve violations during the design process with immediate feedback on fabrication, assembly, and testing parameters. This proactive approach shortens the feedback loop with fabricators, cutting time to market and ensuring a flawless final product.
Design faster with 18M+ verified symbols, footprints, and 3D models from 2,500+ manufacturers, powered by Ultra Librarian—now part of Cadence—available directly in OrCAD X.
