01 - OrCAD X Presto

OrCAD X is an innovative design platform that caters to the needs of individuals and small to mid-size businesses. It focuses on providing a cohesive and comprehensive solution for all design requirements. The addition of the X in this new product platform signifies its ability to extend its capabilities to the cloud, enabling you to leverage additional services like X AI.

OrCAD X Presto—a new layout environment within the OrCAD X platform—offers a cutting-edge solution for layout design. The interoperability between OrCAD X Presto and Allegro layout editor ensures compatibility and easy transition of layout designs. OrCAD X Presto can be used in cloud-connected and unconnected modes, enabling you to work flexibly, based on your preferences and requirements.

The user interface of OrCAD X Presto is designed to be intuitive, capable, efficient, and accessible. It offers compact menus and a streamlined workflow, enabling you to create layout designs quickly and efficiently. Advanced features and functionalities are readily available, empowering designers to deliver high-quality designs efficiently. The informative and interactive panels provide valuable insights, accelerate search and navigation, and effectively manage properties and visibility, ensuring a productive and seamless user experience. OrCAD X Presto eliminates the need for modal dialog boxes. Instead, layout toolbars and floating menus reduce distractions and ensure the design space is unblocked and accessible, enhancing productivity and allowing you to focus on your work.

Additionally, OrCAD X Presto includes an integrated 3D viewer that seamlessly switches between 2D and 3D views. This feature enables designers to perform fast and accurate 3D analysis, supporting 3D clearance Design Rule Checks (DRCs). This integration enhances visualization capabilities, enabling you to identify and address potential manufacturing issues quickly and efficiently.

OrCAD X Presto is a powerful, user-friendly, and feature-rich layout environment that facilitates rapid design iterations, reduces time-to-market, and ensures high-quality layouts.

Key Features

The following are the key features of OrCAD X Presto:

• Live DOC - Integrated PCB documentation authoring tool automating the creation of fabrication and assembly drawings by leveraging real-time design data, ensuring the documentation always remains accurate and up to date.
• Design Review and Markup - Add design markups associated with tasks and comments, allowing assignment, follow-up, tracking, and resolution.
• 3DX - New high performance 3D rendering technology allowing you to dynamically switch the PCB layout between 2D and 3D mode, integrated collision and clearance detection, and real-time bending of flexible circuits, with tight integrations into all major MCAD providers.
• Allegro X AI – The next-generation design solution that leverages generative AI algorithms and off-site, scalable computational resources to synthesize PCB designs. This cloud-based service brings to the PCB design world a level of automation seen only in the digital IC space. It removes time-to-market bottlenecks by parallelizing tasks and freeing critical design resources. It accelerates placement, power planes generation, as well as critical net routing, providing early insights into feasibility, form and fit, and exploring a wide solution space to find optimal and cost-effective solutions, all from within the Allegro X platform.