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OrCAD Capture 3 FPGA co-design OrCAD Capture, together with the OrCAD FPGA System Planner product, addresses the challenges you encounter when designing large-pin-count FPGAs for the PCB: creating the initial pin assignment, integration with the schematic, and ensuring that the device is routable on your PCB. Together, they deliver a complete, scalable solution for FPGA/PCB design-in and co-design that automates creation of optimum "device rules-accurate" pin assignment, symbol creation, and flow. By replacing manual, error-prone processes with automatic pin-assignment synthesis, this unique placement-aware solution helps eliminate unnecessary physical design iterations that shorten design time. Design variants With the design variants capability, included in OrCAD CIS, you can manage unlimited board assembly variations without having to maintain duplicate schematics or manually edit individual BOMs. This capability reduces the number of files by maintaining all design assembly variations within a single design and outputs. On the schematic canvas, substituted and/or unplaced components within each assembly are displayed through graphical indicators for easy reference. PSpice simulation The OrCAD PSpice analog/mixed-signal circuit simulator solution is seamlessly integrated within OrCAD Capture to boost productivity and allow you to use the same schematic for both simulation exploration and PCB layout, reducing rework and errors. Even if you're not creating a circuit for use in the PCB flow, the integration allows for easy setup, model placement, circuit creation, and simulation, as well as cross-probing of simulation results. OrCAD Symbol Editor If you can't find a symbol in your component library, sometimes this task can be daunting to create a new symbol from scratch. But not with the OrCAD Symbol Editor. You have more anchor points on objects for precisely drawing a symbol. Also, in the Enhanced Symbol Editor, there's no need to leave symbol creation environment to perform any edits/changes including unlimited Undo and Redo capability. Symbol creation is easy, faster and much more efficient. Associate a PSpice model in the process of model creation itself. You can add a custom image to the symbol to differentiate it or it to its graphic look. Configure pin across the package in one go to create the most accurate symbol Capture Constraint Manager While you've enjoyed the comprehensive OrCAD PCB constraint management for many years, the same mature and widely used constraint management functionality is now integrated with Capture to bring you the best front-2-back integrated constraint management system. Constraint driven flow is now enabled through one constraint manager for schematics and PCB Layout. One GUI, one way to interact with CM whether the user is working with schematics or with SI or with layout; no translation of constraints, Real-Time Design now provides seamless, push button sync-up of constraints between logic and layout helping PCB designers fix errors as they arise. Constraints are part of the design intent and travel with netlist to layout during floorplanning, placement and interactive routing ensuring constraint adherence and visibility across the design flow. Capture constraint management system is completely integrated within the OrCAD PCB design solution and can be validated in real time as the decision process proceeds. The result of the validation process is a graphical representation of whether the constraint passed (highlighted in green) or failed (highlighted in red). Signal integrity Tightly integrated to provide a bi-directional schematic entry and signal integrity flow, OrCAD Capture and the OrCAD PCB SI product allow you to perform circuit topology exploration, constraint development, and signal integrity analysis from the schematic during design entry. The associated Electrical Constraint set (Electrical CSet) as well as the complete topology file is embedded in the schematic database. PCB Design Seamless bi-directional integration with OrCAD PCB Editor in the OrCAD PCB Designer products enables synchronization and cross- probing/placing between the schematic and the board. The interface makes synchronizing connectivity and design rules easy and straightforward, and automates back-annotation of engineering change orders (ECOs) including layout changes, gate/pin swaps, and changes to component names or values. Open Architecture Platform Enabling an extensible and customizable design environment, the OrCAD open architecture platform incorporates a highly integrated Tcl/HTML5 programming infrastructure that allows the creation or enhancement of features, functionality, design capabilities, and flows. The Tcl programming interface provides programming access to the user interface, command structure, connectivity objects, and design database. Custom features that do not exist natively can be created, further enhancing and extending the OrCAD environment.

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