OrCAD X Datasheets

OrCAD X – Unified PCB Design Without Compromise 5 www.cadence.com To accelerate part creation, OrCAD X integrates directly with SnapMagic (SnapEDA), SamacSys, and Ultra Librarian ® , giving engineers access to millions of verified, ready-to-use component definitions. This integration reduces the time required to introduce new parts into a project and lowers the risk of footprint or symbol errors, a common cause of board re-spins. Library data itself is version-controlled, maintaining full history and traceability. Optional cloud-hosted implementa- tions remove the overhead of maintaining on-premises databases or servers, simplifying IT infrastructure while enabling broad distribution of libraries across internal and external stakeholders. Combining comprehensive part management with modern cloud delivery, OrCAD X ensures that every design is built from a trusted, up-to-date library source. Design Review and Collaboration Design reviews are a critical checkpoint in every project, yet traditional processes often rely on exporting static PDFs, screenshots, or Gerber files for stakeholders to review. These disconnected methods make it difficult to capture accurate feedback, track revisions, or ensure comments are resolved in the design database. OrCAD X transforms this process with integrated design review and markup capabil- ities, available both in the desktop tools and through OrCAD X OnCloud web-based viewers. With OrCAD X OnCloud, schematics and PCB layouts can be securely shared through any modern web browser without requiring the local installation of CAD tools. Stakeholders, including electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, manufacturing partners, or managers, can open the design in a viewer that preserves full graphical fidelity. Using built-in markup tools, reviewers can highlight nets, comment on placements, flag potential issues, or suggest changes directly on the live design representation. Manufacturing OrCAD X addresses manufacturability early by directly embedding design-for-manufacturing (DFM) analysis into the PCB layout environment. Like standard design-rule checks, in-design DFM validates over 100 manufacturing rules spanning design for assembly (DFA), design for fabri- cation (DFF), and design for test (DFT). This shift-left approach allows issues such as insufficient clearances, drill violations, or test point access to be resolved during design rather than discovered at fabrication, saving both time and cost. OrCAD X includes Live Doc, an automated system that generates fabrication and assembly drawings using templates to streamline documentation. Documentation objects are populated directly from the PCB database, enabling dynamic updates. The associated documentation immediately reflects any design change, eliminating manual updates and ensuring that manufacturing outputs always match the latest board revision. For release to manufacturing, a batch output generator automates the creation of complete manufacturing packages, including ODB++, IPC-2581, Gerber, PDF artwork, IPC-D-356 netlists, NC drill files, backdrill reports, and more. Output lists are user-configurable and can be reused from project to project, ensuring that every release is consistent, repeatable, and aligned with manufacturer expectations. By embedding manufacturability analysis and automating deliverables, OrCAD X reduces ECO loops, accelerates fabri- cation, and improves communication across the design-to- build handoff. Signal and Power Integrity Analysis and Exploration Modern high-speed designs, from DDR5 memory interfaces to PCIe Gen6 and USB4 links, place unprecedented demands on both signal and power delivery integrity. Achieving reliable performance requires more than careful routing; it requires continuous validation that impedance targets are met, coupling is controlled, return paths are intact, and the power delivery network can support transient current demands. Traditionally, these checks were performed as late-stage sign-off, often in separate tools, leaving little time to correct problems and increasing the risk of costly redesigns.

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