OrCAD X is the OrCAD PCB design solution reimagined for the next generation of design challenges. With massive improvements in performance, productivity, and capability, OrCAD X represents a new era in productivity for designers. See how OrCAD X can supercharge your workflow and take your design capabilities to new heights.
CIS option (Component Information System) is now an integral part of OrCAD Capture. A complete authoring environment for components is available. Components can be created from scratch or added from providers such as SnapEDA, SamacSys and Ultra Librarian. Working in teams is simplified by a development environment in which shared workspaces can be created and library / design data can be shared. The cloud-enabled workspace data is accessible from anywhere (background synchronization).
OrCAD X Presto offers the power and technology of OrCAD PCB Editor in a new, user-friendly interface. It makes it easy to navigate through designs, place and wire, analyze and correct with fewer mouse clicks, fewer menus and faster navigation. Those who prefer the old user interface can also work with it.
The most important PCB functions for quickly creating new designs include: Differential Pair Autorouting, Automatic net shielding, Dynamic Differential Pair Phase Control rules, Dynamic Heads-up Display for critical rules, Hand Routing Modes (Contour, Bus, Differential pair), Interactive Delay Tuning, Rigid, Rigid-Flex and BGA regions.
LiveDOC provides the user with constantly dynamically updated design data. If changes are made to the layout, these are immediately visible in the documentation. The content and appearance of the documentation is defined once. You can save templates that can be reused in other designs.
If you have any queries, you can mark areas in the design and add comments. The discussion about the technical content is saved in the layout data. This means that decisions can also be retraced later. With this markup function, the corresponding area in the layout is automatically displayed in a meaningful way (zoom and visibility of layers).
With Design for Manufacturability, all common production formats such as Gerber and drill data, ODB++ or IPC-2581 can be generated in a standardized interface with a single click. The production documents compiled with LiveDOC can also be output.
OrCAD X Presto includes an integrated 3D viewer that allows you to switch between 2D and 3D views without delay. This allows designers to perform fast and accurate 3D analyses. For example, it can also be used to detect distance violations of components when a flex design is in a bent state.
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| OrCAD X Capture | OrCAD X Standard | OrCAD X Professional | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schematic | |||||||||||
| Flat and Hierarchical Design | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Component Information System (CIS) | - | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Unifed Search | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Team Design (only in the cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| PSpice Basic (250 node or 250 devices or 1M transient data points or 10K Sweep data points) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Constraint Manager | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Design Variants | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Live BOM (only OrCAD X contain SourceEngine Integration) | - | - | ✓ | ||||||||
| PCB Layout | |||||||||||
| Constraint Manager | - | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| New 3D Engine | - | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Design Review & Markup | - | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| DesignTrue DFM Basic | - | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| MCAD Codesign (Solidworks, Catia, Creo, NX, Fusion) | - | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Single Shot Manufacturing Outputs | - | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Rigid Flex | - | - | ✓ | ||||||||
| Layer Based Dynamic Shape Control | - | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Impedance, Route Analysis (Visions) | - | - | ✓ | ||||||||
| Coupling Analysis (Visions) | - | - | ✓ | ||||||||
| Electrical & Region Rules | - | - | ✓ | ||||||||
| Diff Pairs, Physical, Spacing, Properties, Same Net rules | - | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Dynamic Back Drilling | - | - | ✓ | ||||||||
| Full Specctra Auto router | - | - | ✓ | ||||||||
| Dynamic Diff Pair Phase Control | - | - | ✓ | ||||||||
| MicroVia / HDI | - | - | Presto | ||||||||
| PCB Addons | |||||||||||
| 2 Person Cloud Symphony | - | Addon (Partipate) | Addon (Initiate) | ||||||||
| Productivity Toolbox | - | Addon | Addon | ||||||||
| Data and Process Management | |||||||||||
| Version Control (Shared workspace) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Role Based Access Control (Shared workspace) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Managed Libraries | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Publish to Manufacturing (3D Experience) | Addon | Addon | Addon | ||||||||
| Unified CIS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Alpha Numeric Revision Scheme Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Create and Manage Shared Workspace | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
With improvements in performance, productivity, and capability, OrCAD X represents a new era in productivity for designers. See how OrCAD X can improve your workflow and take your design capabilities to the next level.
