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News Release from: Cadence Design Systems | Subject: Orcad
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 July 2005
Personal PCB design tools move up-market
The latest Orcad release introduces new technology and feature enhancements aimed at solving today's design challenges and increasing productivity.
Cadence Design Systems has released a new version of its Orcad scalable, personal productivity printed circuit board (PCB) design software product line This Orcad release introduces new technology and feature enhancements aimed at solving today's design challenges and increasing productivity
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new features and technologies in Orcad now help designers better address issues from schematic entry and circuit analysis to layout.
This allows customers to reach production faster and produce higher-quality designs and products.
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Orcad PCB Designer and Orcad PCB Designer with PSpice are two new product suites included in the new Orcad 10.3 release, which features additional enhancements to the entire Orcad product line.
This includes Orcad Signal Explorer for signal integrity analysis and validation throughout the design process.
PCB topology exploration drives correct-by-design processes and reduces PCB respins for less time spent in lab debug.
"Orcad PCB Designer is a great tool for a service bureau like us", said Ronald Weber, PCB designer at DesConTec in Munich, Germany.
"With PCB Designer, we can use Orcad Capture, the popular schematic entry tool used by many of our customers".
"We also do PCB layout based on the solid Allegro database format".
"This allows us to reuse designs, if necessary, and addresses high-speed issues within the Allegro environment".
Orcad's latest technological advances continue to enable smaller design teams and individual designer productivity.
Power electronics requirements in the automotive and industrial markets will especially benefit from the new PSpice Magnetic Parts Editor.
Magnetic Parts Editor provides rapid definition and creation of simulation models for transformer and other magnetic devices.
Enhancements to Variant Editor ease the management of designs with multiple configurations.
Orcad Capture also includes a new, automated split part approach for managing large pin count devices.
The affordable, high-performance Orcad product line is easily scalable with the full complement of Cadence Allegro PCB solutions.
"This latest Orcad release is a result of Cadence's continued support of, and investment in, its Orcad product line", said Steven Kamin, director of the Orcad product line at Cadence.
"Orcad continues to offer seamless scalability of product and technology for better personal productivity and solutions to meet our customers' most important current and future design challenges".
The new Orcad release is scheduled for customer shipment in July 2005.
Designs using Orcad technology are easily migrated to the Cadence Allegro 200 Series, and on to the Allegro 600 Series, without the need to translate design databases or change use models.
Orcad products are distributed by a worldwide network of solution providers.
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