What’s New in OrCAD X

• Enhancements to Live BOM provide insight into your supply chain so you can make data-driven decisions. While updates to the Workspaces allow you to securely and efficiently manage your components, libraires, and grant proper workspace access.
  • Workspaces – Security, Access Control and Data Residency (23.1 ISR6)
    • Security – Multifactor authentication provides an additional layer of security to prevent unauthorized access to your account.
    • Access Control – Provides both an internal workspace for organizational access and an external workspace to include users outside your organization.
    • Data Residency – Create region specific shared workspaces for Asia, Japan, Europe, and the USA.
    • Usability enhancement – Single click action to assign default roles and access to all users in an organization.
  • Cloud compatibility with CIS (23.1 ISR6)
  • Import and reuse existing CIS Database Configuration (.dbc) files
  • File manager
    • Bulk upload files directly from the File Manager UI – drag and drop functionality
    • RMB options within the project hierarchy panel
    • Publish dialog remembers the last published workspace
    • Publish button is available within the component dialog
  • Predictive analytics in Live BOM (was available starting 23.1 ISR6):
    
    • Part Forecasting
      • Lead time
      • Inventory change
      • Price range
      • Market availability
    • Set lookback and forecast duration
      
      • View historical data
    • Dynamic synchronization with your design and ability to launch Live BOM on local disk design
    • Duplicate and unassigned refdes handling

• Routing improvements, usability enhancements, and personalization within OrCAD X Presto PCB Editor include:
  • Scalpel cut for traces – slice through existing routes to make it easier to move or edit routed designs or reuse circuitry
  
  • Enhanced display and navigation – accessible from the floating visibility toolbar
    • Ultra shadow mode – Used to make selected objects stand out against all other objects, making it easy to navigate nets
    • Net colors on/off – Enable or disable all custom net colors with a single click, making it easy to navigate traces and shapes based on their layer color or assigned net color.
  • Docked constraint panel with support for basic and advanced rules, making the industry’s most powerful constraint system even easier to use
  • Ability to create footprints from templates using the Footprint Wizard
  
  • Best in class move command
    • Move command allows you to –
      • Rip-up or slide etch
      • Relative move or absolute location
      • Dynamic HUD showing the origin and new location
      • User entry of XY location
      • DFA spacing guides and control
      • Alignment guides and control
      • Temporary relative grid
    • Move using keyboard arrow keys or WASD
      • Moves one grid point
      • Or Shift + Arrow gives you ten grid points
      • Support for + and – within the property panel and search table
    • Dock command windows
      • All command windows can now be docked as a panel and summoned to the cursor
    • Impedance control within the Cross Section Editor allows you to set layer-based impedance constraints
    • Shape drawing
      • Heads up display
        • Length
        • Angle
        • Radius
        • Parallel segments
        • Vertex snapping
      • Change line/arc mode using shortcuts
    • Place associated decaps with parent IC in a single action
    • User controlled right mouse button menus and shortcuts
      • Configure shortcut keys and right mouse button menu for all your favorite commands for a more personalized environment
    • Browser PCB viewer and markup (available starting 24.1 ISR1 and 23.1 ISR8)

• Fine-tune your designs for optimal performance and signal integrity with the industry leading in-design analysis workflows and topology exploration and extraction tools from Sigrity® X. Access the following capabilities right within your PCB design environment:
  • Impedance and coupling analysis (was available starting 23.1 ISR5)
  
  • TopXP integration for single ended and differential pair high speed simulation

Tighter integration of Live BOM into the OrCAD X Capture CIS environment, including:

• ASME 2 level alphanumeric revision scheme support
• Live BOM Updates
  • Connect OnPrem CIS DB with Live BOM
  • Customizable property columns
  • Inclusion of supply chain lead time
  • Cross probe from Live BOM to schematic

Improved PCB object visibility control in both 2D & 3D within OrCAD X Presto & PCB Editor, including:

OrCAD X Presto PCB Editor

• Stipple patterns
• User-defined PCB views (save and recall visibility display)
• Edit and update footprint (control what’s being updated in the PCB design after footprint edit)
  • Edit pin locations in the search table, enabling mass editing
  • Pad preview in search
  • DXF import in footprint
  • Paste special preserve location
  • Archive/remove DR/MU to share design with external users/partners

OrCAD X 3D in Presto & PCB Editor

• Cutting planes
• Material colors
• Transparency control for all 3D objects
• 3D DRC display options
• Measure in 3D

OrCAD X Live DOC PCB fabrication & assembly documentation improvements, including:

• Alternate units in dimensions
• User-controlled text in dimensions
• Panning and zooming aligned with the OrCAD X layout
• ISO and ASME page sizes
• Export PDF location

Get accelerated PSpice analysis with multicore parallel simulation supporting Monte Carlo, Temperature, and Parametric sweep, as well as analysis enhancements including noise contributor control, ISO transient sources for automotive applications, and audio simulation. Complete analysis enhancements include:

• ISO transient sources for automotive applications
  • ISO 7637-2: Electrical disturbances from conduction and coupling
  • ISO 16750-2: Environmental conditions and related testing
• PSpice performance improvement with parallel simulation on desktop
  • Sweep types supported for parallel simulation
    • Parametric sweep, Temperature sweep, Monte Carlo analysis
• Control noise contributors in noise analysis
• Perform audio simulation – Use .wav as input or export as output
• PSpice simulation persona - a simplified way to globally apply simulator options