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OrCAD X PCB Design Platform 2 www.cadence.com Applications Schematic Design OrCAD X has the most widely used schematic capture solution in the industry with years of refinement when it comes to useability, functionality, and customization. Electrical engineers can easily capture design intent using a variety of circuit reuse capabilities, as it supports both flat and hierarchical design configurations. Your design's bill-of-materials (BOM) can be optimized based on cost, lead time, inventory, life cycle, and material compliance. The Live BOM feature in OrCAD X provides dynamic synchronization between the schematic and BOM, along with supply chain intelligence and insight powered by Sourcengine™, where users have access to over 1 billion components across more than 3,600 suppliers, distributors, and manufacturers. Predictive analytics and part forecasting allow users to gain insight into historical data, lead time, inventory change, price range, and market avail- ability, making it easy to identify possible obsolescence, shortage, or pricing issues ahead of time. Additionally, physical and electrical constraints can be defined in the schematic using the time-tested OrCAD constraint manager found in the platform. Tight coupling of PCB Layout allows bi-directional communication of constraints, pin/gate swaps, reference designator (refdes) updates, part changes, and connectivity. Part grouping and cross-probe features simplify component placement and design navigation between the two editing domains. SPICE Simulation PSpice ® is the industry leader when it comes to commer- cial-grade analog and mixed-signal circuit simulation, solving virtually any design challenge, from high-frequency systems to low-power IC designs. Its native integration into OrCAD X schematic capitalizes on the same ease of use while preventing the redraw of the circuit for simulation and layout. With over 35,000 parame- terized models provided as part of the installation, getting started is simple. Its large ecosystem of silicon manufac- turers makes obtaining new models easy. Analysis types like sensitivity, temperature, parametric, Monte Carlo, noise, electrical overstress (EOS), circuit optimization, and electromechanical system analysis with Mathworks ® MATLAB ® and Simulink ® maximizes design performance, yield, cost-effectiveness, and reliability. Multicore CPU utilization parallelizes simulation sweeps separating its performance from other solutions on the market. PCB Layout With the ability to learn in a week with little to no training, OrCAD X PCB Layout is ideal for the novice designer, electrical engineer, or layout designer focused on quick-turn PCB. The new layout environment consists of simplified menus, toolbars, nested commands, and stream- lined use models, helping simplify tasks like routing, shape editing, constraint management, and navigation by reducing the number of user interfaces and mouse clicks. Designed for optimal productivity, it contains the following features – interactive and automatic routing, rigid-flex, fanout, pin and gate swapping, constraint management with design for manufacturing (DFM) checks, high-perfor- mance 3D, and more. Effortlessly tackle high-speed design with single-ended and differential pair phase control, along with real-time feedback with modeless impedance and coupling analysis. Several built-in features, such as commenting, allow designers to markup the layout, reducing the time it takes to review a design, while native Altium Designer ® , Siemens ® PADS™, and Autodesk ® Eagle ® translators allow the preservation of existing design IP. Moreover, ISO26262 certification qualifies the editor for automotive functional safety requirements. The OrCAD X PCB Layout database is fully compatible with Allegro ® X PCB Editor, ensuring a continuous workflow in a mixed environment.