Cadence fejrer 30 års jubilæum for OrCAD med nye produkter og teknologier
Det er 30 år siden, at det første OrCAD PCB-designværktøj kom på markedet, og den efterhånden mangeårige ejer, Cadence, markerer jubilæet med nye produkter og teknologier, som også hilses velkommen på det danske marked (in english).
Cadence Design Systems has announced five new OrCAD products and three key feature updates as it celebrates 30 years of continued OrCAD design and innovation. The expanded OrCAD portfolio enables greater product creation efficiency by delivering additional high-speed design capabilities that address productivity and time-to-market challenges.The new products and key features focus on increasing designers’ productivity by reducing design cycle time and facilitating more advance designs via additional high-speed capabilities.
- As mainstream products such as Internet of Things devices and smart consumer electronics continue to evolve, they commonly include functionalities such as high-speed memory and sophisticated serial interfaces that create new challenges for the designer, says Josh Moore, director of product marketing for OrCAD, Custom IC & PCB Group, Cadence.
- With our 30th anniversary release, designers now have access to solutions that are suitable for high-speed electronic products that have more complex design requirements. For example, the new OrCAD Capture Constraint System product significantly enhances the OrCAD design flow with new high-speed constraints and rules specific to high-speed memory and sophisticated serial interfaces, allowing engineers to far more effectively communicate and drive high-speed design intent, which helps to reduce design iterations.
- The OrCAD 16.6-2015 30th anniversary release proves, once again, OrCAD’s commitment to addressing their customers’ challenges as PCB design requirements continue to evolve, adds Arvid Thorndahl, CEO Nordcad Systems A/S, the distributor of the OrCAD productline in Denmark.
- More and more of today’s mainstream designs contain serial interfaces (USB), flash/DDR memory, and various high-speed interfaces that require large numbers of complex constraints. With the new high-speed capabilities in OrCAD, these types of designs are much more manageable with online checking and visualization, he continues.
Henrik Juul, PCB Designer at Lodam Electronics A/S, also welcomes the new realease:
- The OrCAD PCB Designer Professional improvements in the OrCAD 16.6-2015 30th anniversary release go a long way toward addressing our current and future design challenges. Many of our PCB designs today contain high-speed functionality like DDR memory and USB interfaces. With the new high-speed design features, we’ll be able handle these design challenges without manual verification or risk of errors, he says.
New products include:
• OrCAD Component Information Portal provides users with CIS database management capabilities and integrated access to parametric component data through an interactive, web interface directly within the OrCAD Capture CIS product
• OrCAD DFM Checker provides a comprehensive set of manufacturing/fabrication-centric checks for OrCAD PCB Editor. The OrCAD DFM fabrication checks can be run at any time during PCB place and route to help ensure that no fabrication-related issues are present, helping designers avoid fabrication-related delays, additional costs and re-work.
• OrCAD Panel Editor provides an intelligent panel documentation environment for OrCAD PCB Editor that significantly simplifies panel creation and documentation
• OrCAD Sigrity ERC (Electrical Rules Check) provides a comprehensive set of electrical signal quality checks for OrCAD PCB Editor. ERCs are designed to be run by the PCB designer as a first-order electrical validation. This capability enables the PCB designer to make needed changes within the design before more extensive and exhaustive analysis is performed.
• OrCAD Capture Constraint System enables a constraint-driven PCB design flow for OrCAD Capture and OrCAD PCB Editor. Compared to the existing methodology, the OrCAD Capture Constraint System substantially expands the constraint definition and management methodology in OrCAD Capture.
New key technologies include:
• OrCAD PCB Editor productivity improvements include Scribble Route, an auto/interactive routing feature, which allows the user to loosely sketch a path for a route as the system figures how to detail-route it, as well as group and contour routing updates and via arrays
• OrCAD PCB Professional high-speed design features now offer enhanced differential pair constraints, propagation constraint support, delay tuning with heads-up display support, net scheduling and impedance constraint support
• OrCAD Signal Explorer is being added to OrCAD Capture technology-based products, enabling front-end signal integrity/signal quality simulation as well as topology exploration and constraint definition. It can also be scaled for additional signal exploration and signal integrity capabilities through OrCAD PCB SI.
