OrCAD X User Essentials

OrCAD X User Essentials will help you get a better understanding of your design environment. Learn to navigate, customize, and efficiently use your workspace.

Allegro X Datasheet

Efficient and accurate product design requires synchronizing Electronic Computer-Aided Design (ECAD) and Mechanical Computer-Aided Design (MCAD) systems—but this integration is often fraught with chal

OrCAD X Live BOM Datasheet

OrCAD X PCB Design Platform Datasheet

Cadence OrCAD X is a comprehensive PCB Design platform that offers a rich set of features to streamline your entire electronic design process and take your designs from concept to production.

ECAD and MCAD Co-Design for Success Datasheet

Cadence has partnered with all the major MCAD providers to support a seamless integration between the two design spaces, helping facilitate proper communication for data exchange.

PSpice Datasheet

SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Datasheet

VLS Datasheet

Celsius Technical Brief - Rising to Meet the Thermal Challenge

Design in Harmony: Seamless ECAD and MCAD Collaboration

Learn how the ECAD and MCAD integration between Autodesk Fusion, Cadence Allegro X, and OrCAD X boosts design accuracy, collaboration, and workflow efficiency.

Sigrity X - Redefining Signal and Power Integrity

This white paper highlights the features in Sigrity™ X SI/PI solutions for system-level SI/PI analysis that enable designers to cut the number of design respins and meet short time-to-market windows.

System Simulation for RF Link Budget Analysis

5G Communications

Radar Systems

PSpice - Creating Custom Plot Window With PSpice

Generating a custom plot involving multiple waveforms with analog operators applied on those could be time consuming and tedious task. PSpice provides a simple, powerful, and customizable plot...

PSpice - Transmission line Applications in PSpice

OrCAD PSpice contains distributed and lumped lossy transmission lines that can help to improve the reliability of many applications.  For analog and digital circuits, there is a need to examine...

PSpice - Transmission Line Modeling

In high-speed signal transmission, understanding transmission line behavior is imperative to achieving proper impedance matching and proper termination to minimize loss stemming from reflections...

PSpice - Single Switch Forward Converter

This application note discusses the capabilities of PSpice A/D using an example of 48V/300W, 150 kHz offline forward converter voltage regulator module (VRM), design, and simulation to meet various...

PSpice - Voltage Controlled Oscillators

In this application note, let us model some Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCOs), such as, Dual Integrator VCO and Controlled Reactance VCO, using PSpice...

PSpice - Using PSpice to Simulate the Discharge Behavior of Common Batteries

As the use of battery-operated electronic devices become more widespread, so does the need for simulation models used to analyze the operating characteristics of batteries. The most common batteries..

PSpice - Using the Inductor Coupling Symbols

The new inductor coupling symbols may be used to couple up to six independent inductors on a schematic. This application note covers the following topics explaining the use of inductor coupling...

PSpice - Radiation Effect Modeling

The design of electrical systems for military and space applications requires a consideration of the effects of transient and total dose radiation on system performance...

PSpice - Obtaining Steady State of High-Q Circuits Using Open Loop Response

The length of time it takes to perform a transient simulation on a high-Q oscillator circuit makes simulation inefficient. The dominant time constant of the circuit, due to the Q of the crystal...

PSpice - Obtain S-Parameter Data from the Probe Window

This document explains Measuring S parameters in PSpice using Probe measurements. It explains obtaining S parameter for a passive circuit (a band pass filter) and an active circuit...

PSpice - Modelling Quartz Crystals Purpose

This document explains how a Quartz Crystal can be modeled using a series RLC circuit and a parallel (package) Capacitor. Please note that Crystal Oscillators are available in the XTAL.OLB Library...

PSpice - Modeling Voltage Controlled Resistors and Capacitors in PSpice

The ANL_MISC.LIB library file contains subcircuit models for voltage-controlled reactances and admittances. These can be used to make voltage-controlled resistors and capacitors. In this application..

PSpice - Modeling Potentiometers and Variable Resistors

In this application note, we will model potentiometers and variable resistors using OrCAD Capture and simulate the example circuits, which include models of potentiometers and variable resistors...

PSpice - Modeling Schottky Diodes

This document explains how the model parameters IS and N can be modified to set the forward voltage drop of a Schottky diode. Attached test case shows the simulation results of varying these...

PSpice - Including Relays in PSpice Simulations

In this application note, we will discuss two approaches for modeling the relay: the mechanical model approach, and two purely electrical (behavioral) models approach.

PSpice - Improve Simulation Accuracy When Using Passive Components

A better IC model can improve PSpice simulation accuracies, but other components, such as, passive components, can influence simulation accuracy as much as IC models. This application note will...

PSpice - Filter Models Implemented with ABM

Analog behavior modeling (ABM) allows the simulation of analog circuits using mathematical equations. This application note shows how the filter behavioral models are developed and implemented...

PSpice - Ferrite Bead Models to analyze EMI Suppression

This application note discusses the Importance of Ferrite Beads for in Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) and using these Models in High Speed designs. This document also gives guidelines on the selec

PSpice - Digital Worst-Case Timing Simulation

This document explains the digital worst-case timing simulation feature, to evaluate the timing behavior of Digital and Mixed Analog/Digital designs, as a function of component propagation delay...

PSpice - Digital Frequency Comparator

This application note illustrates how a hierarchical all-digital design with two implementation views, can be defined in OrCAD Capture, and subsequently simulated in PSpice. The example circuit is...

PSpice - Creating Impedances with Behavioral Modeling

This application note will illustrate the method of creating nonlinear resistors using Analog Behavioral Modeling by creating the transfer function for a linear conductance. A conductance can be...

PSpice - Creating Eye Displays Using Probe

In communications work, the eye display is frequently used to illustrate the voltage and timing margins present in a system transmitting digital data. In an eye display the signal is shown with a...

PSpice - Brushless DC Motor Model

Although PSpice is designed as an electronic circuit simulator, you can also use it to simulate mechanical or electromechanical systems. Analog Behavioral Modeling makes simulating mechanical...

PSpice - Analyzing Amplifier's Settling Time

The standard simulation methodology to test for settling time of an amplifier is to step the input voltage over the relevant input range and measure the time taken for the output to settle to some...

PSpice - Analog Behavioral Modeling

Behavioral Modeling is the process of developing a model for a device or a system component representing the behavior rather than from a microscopic description. You can use Behavioral Modeling in...