OrCAD X—Freedom to design boldly. Insight to unlock your potential.
OrCAD X helps engineers build better PCBs faster with a new 3D engine and optimized interface. Take control of the PCB design process with the powerful Allegro X constraint engine, live DRCs, and real-time part information. Gain new insight with improved visualization of constraints and analysis results. Collaborate within a connected environment for team project workspaces, and centralized libraries.
Unlock the Future with OrCAD X: PCB Design Simplified
OrCAD X empowers engineers to easily tackle PCB design challenges at any stage. It's an intuitive and integrated platform that provides flexibility, personalization, and connectivity so that you can design fast, correct, and connected.
Key Benefits
Advance Your PCB Design Potential
Create and Design
OrCAD Familiarity Meets Allegro Power
Unlock your potential with a layout environment using a modern streamlined interface, including the powerful Allegro X constraint engine.
Take Control of Your Environment
Maximize your screen real estate and canvas visibility with floating panels, personalize your environment with shortcut keys, and navigate and visualize seamlessly with cross-probing.
Take control of your display, and increase focus with parametric graphical highlights, filters, and navigation.
The interactive 3D canvas and 3D DRC with flex bending and enclosures help you visualize your product as you design so you can identify and fix any issues, ensuring design integrity within space constraints.
Integrated Analysis
Design with Vision. Insight When and Where You Need It
With integrated analysis and real-time visual guidance, you can optimize component selection and values, and better visualize placement and routing, while remaining within the bounds of your defined constraints with Live DRC.
In-design Analysis from Capture to Manufacture
In-design Analysis provides quick and accurate results without translation, or time spent transferring data between tools. By visualizing the results of this analysis, you will have the insight you need to understand the impact of your simulations, empowering you to make the right decisions throughout the design lifecycle.
Reduce Costs and Increase Reliability with OrCAD PSpice
Perform Smoke Analysis for component reliability and tolerance testing. Utilize Sensitivity Analysis to optimize your production cost based on component tolerance checks.
Simplified Manufacturing
Dynamic Updates for Your Final Documentation
Ensure accurate information and skip time-consuming rework with LiveDOC. Template-driven automated fabrication and assembly drawings remain synchronized with the parent design through any required changes, all within a single document.
DesignTrue DFM
With over 100 essential constraint checks, easily identify the most common manufacturability errors to ensure design for fabrication, assembly, and test. Communicate design intent with leading manufacturers and receive the required technology files.
Configure and generate required manufacturing output files from a single location, including the ability to add your LiveDOC to the resulting set.
Data Management
Centralize and Manage Your Data with Team Workspaces
User-defined project workflows and templates allow faster-than-ever design cycles. Easily manage and review design revisions with complete design version history.
Easily Build and Maintain a Robust Centralized Library
Utilize the Component Explorer to search, review, acquire, and publish parts with up-to-date and accurate information from integrated content providers to easily build and share your Library. Real-time updates ensure your parts have the latest information from the source.
Design for Reuse with Known Good Circuits
Accelerate your design process by leveraging existing and tested circuitry instead of always starting from scratch. OrCAD Capture enables subcircuit reuse with hierarchical blocks to promote the efficient use of proven designs. By creating and managing reuse modules from completed circuitry you can streamline your PCB layout process and avoid potential signal integrity or thermal problems
Collaboration and Connectivity
Concurrent 2-Person PCB Design with Symphony
With cloud-enabled 2-person design, team members can concurrently apply their expertise on the same design in real time without the need for pausing work or saving and exchanging files and messages with one another. Collaborate in stride and maintain your momentum.
Collaborate with Context Using Design Markup
Easily communicate with your team within the context of your design. Set intent, answer questions, and stay on track with the ability to mark up and communicate directly within your design.
MCADX for SolidWorks
With bi-directional data transfer to easily reduce errors and enable your ECAD and MCAD teams to concurrently work on a design, ensuring validation, collaboration, and consistency.
Continuous BOM Updates
Visibility for designers, engineers, procurement, and supply chain with LiveBOM data from Silicon Expert.
GETTING STARTED
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OrCAD X Standard
For individuals
- Enables new designers to easily, quickly, and accurately create a PCB
- Production-proven solution, design and build with confidence
- Basic data management in a cloud infrastructure
- Solid entry level product with scalability into the full range of Cadence Solutions
OrCAD X Professional Plus
Professionals, small businesses, and teams
- Robust features that are easy to learn and use
- More advanced PCB design features
- Cloud data management and collaboration
- Solid entry level product with scalability into the full range of Cadence Solutions
Allegro X
Enterprise
- Advanced PCB technology for the most complex electronic systems
- For mature processes requiring collaboration, communication, and integration across teams
- Scalability into uncompromised capability
- System Capture enables EE productivity with design reliability and design rule checks