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You’re proud of your work, and you should be. The electronic designs you create impact all of our lives, but go unseen by most. That’s why it needs to be perfect. You need to balance creativity, productivity, and old fashion … Read More

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to PCB Design, a timely and much-needed resource for electrical engineers seeking to understand the complexities involved in PCB design.   The role of the electrical engineer in PCB design is changing. EE’s are now being tasked … Read More

When you work out, you get warm. When it is hot out to begin with, and you are going as hard as you can, you get very warm. The same thing happens to the machines built for the heavy lifting. … Read More

Want to know what is going on in todays Electronics Industry, have a look at the OrCAD Blog. Read more

Just downloaded OrCAD Trial? New to OrCAD? These videos are for you! This complete guide will take you step by step, through starting your design with OrCAD, from schematic to PCB layout. Topic covered are: 1. Start a Schematic Project2. … Read More

I want to tell you a story about two PCB design engineers and how they were successful using a web-based schematic capture tool from Cadence. These PCB design engineers are taking a break and come up with this brilliant idea … Read More

High Definition Media Interface is a beautiful thing. Back when 1080P meant something, the HDMI spec entered the scene as an upgrade on the legacy trio or quintet of RCA cables. The number of legacy cables would add up quickly … Read More

You never know when and you never know where inspiration will strike. Be ready, with OrCAD Capture Cloud. There is nothing to install and nothing to configure. Just fire up your browser and away you go. Click on following link … Read More

So, you think you might want to do some Flexible Printed Circuit layouts? Pull up a chair; there’s a lot to talk about. The first thing to know about FPCs is that they are almost entirely different from rigid boards. … Read More

Anyone who designs complex circuits and claims they don’t use the Optimizer in their circuit design is most likely a super-genius with an IQ of 250. Read more

The new Virtuoso platform addresses the advanced design environment challenges faced by today’s design engineers. Smart products are becoming very highly integrated with multiple components all on the same substrate or advanced package. These products utilize RF, 5G, photonics, heterogeneous … Read More

The first thing a designer has to be sure of is to thoroughly understand and know their circuit. This is first of the series of four posts where you lean about the PSpice Advanced Analysis capabilities that can be used … Read More

LEUVEN, Belgium and SAN JOSE, Calif., February 28, 2018 — The world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, imec, and Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that its extensive, long-standing collaboration has resulted in the industry’s … Read More

Many products include multiple printed circuit boards. Bringing these boards together inside one enclosure and ensure they are connected correctly can be challenging. The following video shows you how you could manage such a task using OrCAD Capture: The separate … Read More

The OrCAD 17.2 Quarterly Incremental Release  (QIR5) is now available from support.cadence.com. The latest features of OrCAD help you to be more efficient in your product design cycle by improving the design for manufacturing flow, enhancing the Interactive3D canvas, and adding … Read More

As engineers, we’re really good at finding mistakes. While it’s easy to find problems at the end, and frequent mid-cycle checks and fixes help shorten design cycles, it’s much harder to design right the first time. No matter how early … Read More

Here we explore OrCAD PCB Professional. The suite contains Capture, PCB Editor, SigXplorer, STEP 3D engine, Design Re-use and much more. Click here to register for a full evaluation version

Like the technologies which sit upon them, printed circuit boards are getting smaller. While that has a positive outcome in terms of smaller products, there is a negative aspect. Increased component densities mean access to the pins on chips or … Read More

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that it has achieved the industry’s first comprehensive “Fit for Purpose – Tool Confidence Level 1 (TCL1)” certification from TÜV SÜD, enabling automotive semiconductor manufacturers, OEMs and component suppliers to meet stringent ISO 26262 automotive … Read More

In this video, Roger Thornton from Raspberry Pi explains what challenges the team faced while designing for very low cost, and how Cadence tools made designing their latest model, Pi Zero W – a $10 computer, possible.       … Read More

You’re proud of your work, and you should be. The work you do impacts all of our lives, but goes unseen by most. That’s why it needs to be perfect. As an engineer, designing PCBs is a core function of … Read More

Manufacturability is a fundamental requirement for all your designs. A traditional design for manufacturing (DFM) flow consists of numerous groups with fabricators or internal signoff groups. You waste materials and time, and risk missing launch dates with every respin.Prevention is always … Read More

The OrCAD 17.2 Quarterly Incremental Release 4 (QIR4) is now available!The latest features of OrCAD help you to be more efficient in your product design cycle by improving the design for manufacturing flow, enhancing the Interactive3D canvas, and adding more … Read More

OrCAD Capture users now have access to comprehensive online component and reference design data available through Arrow (SiliconExpert) from within OrCAD Capture, so that you can deliver your innovative design to market faster with the right parts.   OrCAD Capture … Read More

OrCAD Capture Cloud just received an Honorable Mention as one of the Most Innovative Software Products for 2017 in the Embedded Computing Design magazine. Check out this link

Hear what people are saying about Virtuoso ADE Explorer, Assembler, and Verifier. The comments capture the feedback, impressions, and excitement for the tools and highlight the importance of training for getting on track fast.       Curious?

Automobiles, virtual reality, medical devices all make our lives better. And they all need smaller, faster, lower-power processing.    Spero Devices is using the latest nanotechnology and CMOS devices in a new architecture to make it all possible.   To … Read More

Feel free to watch Robert Feranec’s free tuturial on how to start with the OrCAD Capture and OrCAD/Allegro PCB Editor toolset. Download OrCAD LITE to experience the OrCAD flow yourselve.

PCB libraries are a necessary part of any PCB designer’s life, taking hours of time away from other tasks you need to do to complete a project. Every day IC vendors are developing new and more complex chips to meet … Read More

Imagine that your design tools for IC layout and multi-die packaging were seamlessly coupled together. And your system-level design was managed by a single hierarchical schematic that included all your package/PCB layout parasitics. Suddenly system-level LVS and verification becomes a … Read More

The Ultimate innovative Design for Reliability toolset, addressing MTBF, Stress Derating Analysis and Schematic Review, for developing more robust products.   BQR’s fiXtressadd-on for OrCAD allows electronic engineers to design reliable and robust PCBs, shortening time-to-market, improving the design process … Read More

Did you know we have hundreds of Training Bytes videos available on the Cadence Online Support site that you can watch free of charge for self-help? In 2016, we conducted a large survey amongst our customers to find out how … Read More

Presenter: Corey Mathis – MathWorks, Kishore Karnane and Alok Tripathi – CadenceYour electronic systems are becoming more complex, with PCB designs having tighter specifications for size, power and cost. These new design constraints are forcing engineering teams to co-design hardware … Read More

This integration is already available with the introduction of our release 17.2 hotfix S019 and this improvement provides a seamless integration with MCAD tools for PCB Designers using OrCAD/Allegro PCB Editor.  So now you can: Push updates directly from OrCAD to … Read More

The newest OrCAD® 17.2-2016 Quarterly Incremental Release (QIR), QIR #3 is now available! Check out the new interactive 3D canvas in OrCAD PCB Designer and many more new features and enhancements in OrCAD Capture! QIRs deliver new OrCAD features in between major releases. … Read More

PSpice Advanced Analysis (PSpice AA) offers users the most complete analysis of design reliability and manufacturability, which are way beyond conventional SPICE analysis capabilities.  The new enhancements in PSpice AA allow users to run PSpice AA on existing designs without … Read More

The Cadence® Protium™ S1 FPGA-Based Prototyping Platform is the latest generation prototyping solution enabling early software development, throughput regressions, and high-performance system validation. It combines high-capacity FPGA boards, based on Virtex-Ultrascale FPGAs, with a complete implementation and debug software suite, … Read More

Cadence released its new online support website with google search engine and with new content like tutorials, training videos. Learn from this video how to get most out of it.    

The Allegro 17.2-2016 release, the largest in the past 10 years, became available in 2016. Since 17.2-2016 includes a database change that usually happens with a dot zero release, many of you may be wondering when the right time to … Read More

OrCAD Cloud – The power of OrCAD without a single download Arrow and Cadence have partnered up to bring you a new and innovative way to design circuits. Using Cadence’s OrCAD schematic capture tool and Arrow.com’s extensive part library, this … Read More

No matter whether you are a startup company looking for tools to develop your first product or a large enterprise needing a better solution to improve productivity, selecting a PCB solution can be a daunting task, as there are so … Read More

PCB design engineers are often forced to leave their native CAD program in order to create or search for parts. Having multiple windows switching between different platforms can be time consuming, tedious and increase the rate of errors in the … Read More

Want to see which footprints are included with the OrCAD/Allegro 17.2 installation?   Click here to download the pdf file with the complete listing

Cadence Sigrity technologists guide you step by step on how to use the Sigrity Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) simulator to accurately predict the impact of simultaneous switching noise (SSN) in a system context. A PCB layout is directly connected … Read More

Boundary scan, as defined by the IEEE 1149.x family of standards, is a technology which enables a JTAG-enabled Integrated Circuit (IC) to relinquish control of its pins to an external agent for test purposes. The logic required to do this is included … Read More

Verify your design from concept to product realisation The integration of Cadence PSpice with MathWorks MATLAB and Simulink provides a complete system-level simulation solution for PCB design and implementation. Customers can now utilize PSpice for analog/mixed-signal simulation and perform MATLAB/Simulink … Read More

The Allegro PCB Symphony Team Design Option allows multiple users to work on the same design without having to split (partition) the design. By connecting users to a common Allegro database, this simple approach allows multiple PCB designers to easily work … Read More

Stay current with improvements in Cadence PCB 17.2-2016 ReleasePCB is a never ending cycle—the sooner you can finish one design, the sooner you can get started on the next. Join our webinar and learn how the latest advancements in Cadence® … Read More

Our colleagues Parallel Systems have produced a simple tutorial to help new users get an understanding of the functionality of the OrCAD software for schematic entry, circuit simulation and PCB layout. Whilst the Cadence OrCAD and Allegro tools are designed to solve … Read More

This new Sigrity Tech Tip focuses on our differentiated “level 3” power-aware rule checking. Allegro Sigrity SI Base and Power-Aware SI Option from Cadence are demonstrated. Sigrity technologists guide you step by step on how to utilize power-aware electric rule … Read More

Finished your PCB layout design but not sure if all the components in your design will fit into the enclosure? You can now easily detect component enclosure collisions in the early PCB design stage with OrCAD Interactive 3D canvas. Design your … Read More

Filters, amplifiers, linear and switched-mode power supplies, and other analog/mixed-signal designs require rigorous verification and analysis to ensure that they will perform to their design specifications. When violation of component operating limits cause failures, or component value (or parameter) variations … Read More

Watch the short video on how you can simulate a design with the existing hardware. This example explains how to develop new hardware in OrCAD® and integrate the simulation using PSpice with real sensors driven by an Arduino board. With … Read More

We are pleased to report that through the great work from Hemant Shah and Ed Hickey, Cadence won the cover article for THE magazine covering the upcoming PCB West 2016 show. The article gives us an overview of using both … Read More

Powered by industry-leading electronic components supplier Arrow®, Capture users now have access to comprehensive online component and reference design data available through Arrow (SiliconExpert) from within OrCAD Capture, so that you can deliver your innovative design to market faster with … Read More

Here is a new Sigrity Tech Tip that focuses on the new System SI AMI Builder technology. Allegro Sigrity SI Base and the System Serial Link Analysis Option from Cadence are demonstrated. Sigrity technologists guide you step by step on how to … Read More

We are very excited to announce the launch of PSpice.com a new user-community web portal that lets designers, partners and students access materials related to PSpice analog and mixed-signal simulation and analysis in one central location. The PSpice.com portal includes … Read More

Learn about Allegro Sigrity PI through a demonstration. Sigrity technologists will show how PCB Designers are empowered to solve basic PI problems early in the design cycle working cooperatively, but independent from Power Integrity Engineers. The demonstration will guide you step … Read More

Our annual User Group Meeting was a great success. A great number of our Benelux users, active in various industries, visit the Allegro-OrCAD User Group Meeting in Nuland. During the day a number of new 17.2 features were presented and … Read More

Spending excessive engineering time on flex and rigid-flex design creation? The OrCAD 17.2-2016 release can address these challenges as well as mixed-signal simulation complexities in IoT, wearables, and wireless mobile devices. With the latest release, you can shorten PCB development … Read More

The PSpice Advanced Analysis simulation engines which are used in conjunction with core PSpice simulation, maximize design performance, yield, cost-effectiveness, and reliability. These simulation capabilities – Sensitivity, Monte Carlo, Smoke (Stress), Optimizer, and Parametric Plotter – help you deal with the problems … Read More

Cadence Expands OrCAD Solution to Address Flex and Rigid-Flex Design Challenges for IoT, Wearables and Mobile DevicesTo enable a faster and more efficient flex and rigid-flex design creation critical to IoT, wearables and wireless devices, the OrCAD 17.2-2016 portfolio enables … Read More

Cadence Expands OrCAD Solution to Address Flex and Rigid-Flex Design Challenges for IoT, Wearables and Mobile DevicesCadence Design Systems announced new capabilities for OrCAD® Capture, PSpice® Designer and PCB Designer 17.2-2016 that address challenges with flex and rigid-flex design as … Read More

OrCAD DFM Checker provides comprehensive, easy to use PCB manufacturing analysis technology that identifies specific design issues that may have an adverse effect on PCB fabrication. Designs that pass standard design rule verification may unknowingly contain critical issues that could … Read More

Sigrity Tech Tips: how to model serial link interfacesSigrity™ technologists guide you step-by-step on how to model serial link interfaces using a cut-and-stitch methodology. The methodology enables creation of 3D full-wave-accurate s-parameter models 10X faster than traditional approaches.  Watch the … Read More

Watch this 3 minutes overview video which will give you all the feature highlights in OrCAD PCB Editor, OrCAD Capture and PSpice. 

The Component Information Portal offers Cadence OrCAD Capture CIS users a comprehensive, “off-the-shelf” CIS management environment that includes distributor integration and a component library with a pre-defined set of fields. To take advantage of the capabilities offered with the integration … Read More

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced the availability of the industry’s only foundry-proven IC packaging design and analysis solutions for advanced Fan-Out Wafer-Level Chip Scale Packaging (WLCSP) and 2.5D interposer-based designs. The new capabilities enable the faster multi-chip integration that is … Read More

OrCAD Capture now provides export capability for Intel Schematic Connectivity Format (ISCF), targeted at automating Intel-based design reviews. ISCF was developed by Intel to streamline the collaboration process with its customers. Intel worked with Cadence to develop a direct ISCF … Read More

Arrow Electronics and Cadence Technologies have collaborated to help enrich the OrCAD Capture user experience. This alliance will accelerate the development of designs for engineers; allowing products to reach the market faster and become more affordable for the consumer. The … Read More

With the latest OrCAD/Allegro ISR 16.6.064, an Altium translator is available for all OrCAD/Allegro customers. OrCAD/Allegro users can now translate their Altium designs easily into OrCAD and Allegro. The translator is included in every product license, no extra license or installation is … Read More

Data management was so much simpler during the days of Mylar and Bishop Graphics tape. Data was handwritten. All you had to do was keep track of your paperwork and you were golden. Now, you’re all much more productive, but … Read More

OrCAD® Engineering Data Management (EDM) is a comprehensive WIP (work in progress) data management environment for the OrCAD PCB design solution. Fully integrated within the OrCAD environment, OrCAD EDM lets your engineering design team take advantage of the time-to-market benefits … Read More

OrCAD/Allegro PCB Productivity Toolbox provides a suite of utilities focused on improving your PCB designer’s productivity by enabling or streamlining many design tasks that are common or emerging today. The toolbox utilities are integrated directly into the OrCAD/Allegro PCB Editors … Read More

Our PCB Design Expert Erik Nijeboer published an interesting article in the Dutch Magazine Elektronica.   What if PCB Design Rule Checks are not enough? You can download the article here: Artikel CB Distribution – Elektronica Nummer 10 (2015)

You will be pleased to find that GerbTool includes an Import Wizard that goes beyond just importing Gerber data. Using the Import Wizard, you simply direct GerbTool to the location of your data, and it does the rest by detecting … Read More

OrCAD Sigrity ERC (Electrical Rules Check) is a new product that goes beyond physical DRC checks and helps to improve the overall quality of your PCB design. It enables PCB designers or electrical engineers to screen a PCB design for … Read More

In the listing below you will find an overview of the new features in OrCAD/Allegro PCB Editor Release 16.6-2015.   Depending whether you are using Standard, Professional or Designer you will gain the following extra features by upgrading to Release … Read More

Cadence announced the new release of the Virtuoso Digital Implementation v14.2 training course. This new course is recently updated and supports the latest features included in VDI v14.2 release. This new course has been condensed into a 2 day course. Virtuoso Digital … Read More

    The Component Information Portal (CIP) offers Cadence OrCAD Capture CIS users a comprehensive, “off-the-shelf” CIS management environment that includes distributor integration and a component library with a pre-defined set of fields. The distributor integration provided by the Component … Read More

The OrCAD/Allegro 16.6-2015 release celebrates the 30th anniversary of OrCAD and 30 years of continued investment and innovation of OrCAD technology.   New advanced high-speed features now include minimum / maximum and relative propagation, static phase differential pair constraints, delay … Read More

The new 16.6-2015 release comes with an updated ready to use footprint library. In total over 750 footprints are available.   Download here a complete listing of all footprints

The OrCAD/Allegro 16.6-2015 Release is now available for download for our valued maintenance customers.   Five new optional OrCAD products and three key feature updates are available with the OrCAD/Allegro 16.6-2015 Release. The expanded OrCAD portfolio enables greater product creation … Read More

What if you and your manufacturing partner don’t speak the same language? The Cadence® Allegro® PCB Designer Manufacturing Option gives you three ways to translate your manufacturing handoff into a successful new product introduction: Documentation Editor to speed your PCB … Read More

One of the OrCAD PCB Editor changes for the 16.6-2015 release is the new PCB menu optimization update. This update (applicable on to OrCAD PCB), introduces a vastly improved menu structure based on Channel Partner input, customer requests, and with … Read More

As we celebrate the 30th anniversary of OrCAD® and 30 years of continued investment and innovation of OrCAD technology, our newest release – OrCAD 16.6-2015 – will soon be available. New advanced high-speed features now include minimum / maximum and … Read More

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. 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 … Read More

Since its founding in 1985, OrCAD technology has been at the forefront of PC-based EDA tools with industry-leading products for schematic capture such as OrCAD Capture and PSpice® simulation. Over the years, OrCAD products have helped countless engineers and electronics … Read More

The PCB Design Magazine guest editor Kelly Dack stopped by the Cadence Design Systems booth at DesignCon 2015, where he sat down with Product Marketing Manager Brad Griffin to discuss Cadence’s advanced PCB design and signal integrity tools, and the … Read More

Bill Munroe, principal PCB designer in Cavium’s Post-Silicon Group, talks about how the Allegro TimingVision technology helped his team achieve 4X faster timing closure on DDR3 and DDR4 memory subsystems. Routing boards with high-speed interfaces had been a time-consuming, manual … Read More

This video will show how to use Document templates within OrCAD Documentation Editor (BluePrint) to automate and speed up the creation of PCB Document sets.

We are proud to announce the launch of our newly designed website together with the new CB Distribution logo. Time was there to retire the old html based site and start using a Content Managment System. Please send us an … Read More

OrCAD® Panel Editor intelligently automates the complex process of panel definition and documentation, simplifying the design process. This solution enables designers to quickly create electronic manufacturing documents that clearly articulate the panel specification and instructions for successful fabrication, assembly, and … Read More

Product creation looks beyond chip or board design and considers the entire product, including software applications, mechanical enclosures, and the underlying electronics. The process of creating electronic products encompasses collaboration among team members that extends beyond authors and implementers, integration … Read More

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., today announced an expanded Cadence® Sigrity™ technology portfolio with the Sigrity Parallel Computing 4-pack and the Sigrity System Explorer, an updated power-aware system signal integrity (SI) feature, as well as flexible purchasing options for PCB and … Read More

The latest OrCAD® / PSpice 16.6 release and recent Quarterly Incremental Releases provide significant new enhancements and capabilities in the areas of usability, speed, convergence, and performance. Highlights of QIR #7 include: Significant performance enhancement for PSpice PSpice multi-core simulation … Read More

Cadence has announced three new additions to the OrCAD product line to accelerate the mainstream PCB design process and provide a significant boost to productivity and efficiency. The new OrCAD products include OrCAD Engineering Data Management (EDM), a comprehensive collaboration … Read More

Lattice relies on Cadence Sigrity tools Lattice is a global leader in delivering ultra-low power FPGAs for manufacturers of smartphones, small cell networking equipment, and industrial applications. For its customer base, fast time to market, low power, and low cost … Read More