OrCAD Suites

OrCAD Suites

 

OrCAD PSpice Designer

For powerful schematic entry and simulation in one affordable package

 

In today’s engineering design environment, electrical engineers are asked to perform a variety of challenges in a fraction of the time. Along with schematic entry, circuit simulation is becoming an integral part of the schematic design process. Recognizing this need, Cadence® has created the Cadence OrCAD® EE Designer suite—a highly integrated front-end design solution with Cadence OrCAD Capture and Cadence PSpice® A/D in a single package.

 

OrCAD PSpice Designer includes:

  • OrCAD Capture a comprehensive solution for entering, modifying, and verifying complex system designs quickly and cost-effectively
  • PSpice A/D a full featured analog simulator with support for digital elements to help solve virtually any design challenge

BENEFITS

  • Provides fast, intuitive schematic editing
  • Boosts schematic editing efficiency through design reuse
  • Automates the integration of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and programmable logic devices (PLDs)
  • Makes changes quickly through a single spreadsheet editor
  • Imports and exports every commonly used design file format
  • Faster simulation times, higher reliability, and better convergence on larger designs
  • Explores design relationships with “what if” scenarios before committing to hardware
  • Explores circuit behavior using basic DC, AC, noise, and transient analyses
  • Offers library selection of more than 25,000 analog and mixed-signal models

FEATURES
Design Capture Technology
OrCAD Capture offers a comprehensive solution for entering, modifying, and verifying complex system designs quickly and cost-effectively. Whether used to design a new analog circuit, revise a schematic diagram for an existing PCB, or design a digital block diagram with an HDL module, OrCAD Capture allows designers to enter, modify, and verify the PCB design.

SCHEMATIC EDITING
The full-featured schematic editor enables users to place and connect parts from a comprehensive set of functional libraries.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
The project manager enables users to collect and organize all the resources needed for the project throughout the design flow.

HIERARCHICAL DESIGN AND REUSE
OrCAD Capture boosts schematic editing efficiency by enabling subcircuit reuse—without having to make multiple copies.

LIBRARIES AND PART EDITING
The library editor is accessed directly from the user interface. Users can create and edit parts in the library or directly from the schematic page without interrupting workflow.

EASY DATA ENTRY
Designers can access all part, net, pin, and title block properties or any subset and make changes quickly through the spreadsheet property editor.

Advanced Simulation Technology
PSpice A/D is a full-featured analog simulator with support for digital elements to help solve virtually any design challenge—from high-frequency systems to low-power IC designs. The powerful simulation engine integrates easily with Cadence PCB schematic entry solutions, improving time to market and keeping operating costs in check.

DESIGN ENTRY AND EDITING
PSpice A/D integrates seamlessly with the Cadence front-to-back PCB design flow, making it possible to have a single, unified design environment for both simulation and PCB design. Select from a library of more than 34,000 symbols and models for simulation to design with Cadence PCB schematic design entry technology.

STIMULUS CREATION
Access built-in functions that can be described parametrically or draw piece-wise linear (PWL) signals freehand with the mouse to create any shape stimulus.

CIRCUIT SIMULATION
Users can easily set up and run simulations, and then cross-probe simulation results from Probe, an industry- standard waveform viewer.

MIXED ANALOG/DIGITAL SIMULATION
Integrated analog and event-driven digital simulations improve speed without loss of accuracy. A single graphical waveform analyzer displays mixed analog and digital simulation results on the same time axis.

GRAPHICAL RESULTS AND DATA DISPLAY
Probe Windows allows users to choose from an expanded set of mathematical functions to apply to simulation output variables.

MODELS
Included are a large variety of accurate internal models—which typically include temperature effects—that add flexibility to simulations.

MODEL LIBRARY
Users can select from more than 25,000 analog and mixed-signal models of devices made in North America, Japan, and Europe.

BEHAVIORAL MODELING
Functional blocks are described using mathematical expressions and functions, which allows designers to leverage a full set of mathematical operators, nonlinear functions, and filters.

MAGNETIC PARTS EDITOR
The Magnetic Parts Editor helps designers overcome issues involved in manually designing transformers. Users can design magnetic transformers and DC inductors, and generate simulation models for transformers and inductors.

CHECKPOINT RESTART
This feature allows designers to store simulation states at various time-points and then restart simulations from any of the simulation states, which saves time.

 

Screenshot: OrCAD_CAP

Datasheets: OrCAD Capture.pdf

Datasheets: OrCAD PSpice.pdf