OrCAD for your PCB layout

OrCAD is an easy-to-use, intuitive software suit for printed circuit board design; it is a comprehensive design software for PCB manufacturers, designers and engineers.

The new OrCAD products include OrCAD Engineering Data Management (EDM), a comprehensive collaboration and management environment for OrCAD Capture; OrCAD Documentation Editor, an intelligent, automated PCB documentation environment; and OrCAD Library Builder, a rapid automated part builder.

OrCAD EDM enables efficient schematic design collaboration and management among engineering teams within their OrCAD Capture environment. It combines an easy-to-use, intuitive interface with design and data management capabilities to ensure that data integrity and project status is managed throughout the schematic design process. EDM enables engineers to work efficiently together as a group, regardless of geographic location, resulting in better team productivity, efficiency and faster time to market.

OrCAD Library Builder provides a single integrated environment for the rapid creation of complete OrCAD parts by harvesting readily available component IP from on-line component catalogs and device specification sheet PDFs using an automated correct-by-construction approach. The automated and interactive technology significantly decreases part creation time – by as much as 70 percent for complex parts – while the advanced PDF datasheet extraction technology eliminates countless hours of manual data entry and creation to extract data from pin tables and diagrams to build parts.

"The technology available within the new OrCAD Library Builder product has enabled us to significantly reduce the amount of time spent creating and maintaining our symbol and footprint libraries," said Mike Crittenden, senior printed circuit board designer at Technology Services Corporation. "Even a mistake as small as a single missed pin can result in a significant cost and schedule impact. With the OrCAD Library Builder technology and its advanced library    verification tools, we do not have to worry about these kinds of errors anymore.”

OrCAD Documentation Editor provides an intelligent, interactive PCB documentation environment that enhances and simplifies the PCB documentation process utilizing automation and advanced technologies, easing the entire process from creation through distribution and usability. It shortens PCB design time by reducing documentation time up to 60 to 80 percent.

OrCAD contains schematic symbols, footprints and parts generation wizard, to improve PCB design process and shorten the time of generating components to only five minutes. In addition, PCB designers can take advantage of a wide range of component library as a reference.