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Highlights
• Extensive schematic entry capabilities and productivity features ensure easy, fast, intuitive design capture
• Hierarchical, reuse, and variant design capabilities streamline the creation of complex designs
• OrCAD CIS accelerates the design process and lowers project costs by promoting preferred parts and optimizing part selection
• Consistent Constraint Manager flow from Schematic to layout providing seamless, push button sync-up of constraints between logic and layout designer enabling constraint driven floorplanning, placement and interactive routing.
• Integrated signal integrity, analog/mixed-signal design, and simulation support enable circuit exploration, constraint development, and verifi-cation to help achieve first-pass success
• Bi-directional integration with the OrCAD PCB SI and the OrCAD PCB design products
• CAD vendor netlist interfaces for most PCB packages extends OrCAD Capture into multi-vendor flows

Whether you’re designing a new analog circuit, revising digital schematics for an existing PCB, or implementing hierarchical block design, the OrCAD Capture solution and integrated flows provide everything you need for circuit design, analog/mixed-signal simulation, component optimization and selection, and signal integrity planning.

OrCAD Capture provides core schematic editing capabilities, but does not just stop there. It is highly integrated with OrCAD PCB
Editor for physical PCB design, OrCAD PSpice® for analog/mixed-signal circuit simulation, OrCAD PCB SI for signal integrity analysis
and planning, and OrCAD CIS (Component Information System) for component optimization, selection, and variant design, greatly
extending the schematic design process.
Schematic Entry Features
Schematic editor
The OrCAD Capture schematic editor builds on the legacy of OrCAD providing fast and easy schematic editing for the simplest to the
most complex designs. It combines an intuitive interface with all the features and functionality you need to speed through design tasks
and circuit creation.
Productivity and ease of use
The schematic editor provides numerous features and functionality that enhance usability and speed for accomplishing design tasks
and publishing design data. For example, the autowire capability automates the often tedious and time-consuming task of wiring
signal pins by quickly and automatically adding connection wires for you. Context-sensitive menus, OLE support, custom colorization
of wires, nets, and parts, and a tabbed and dockable interface all provide a better user experience.
For larger, more complex designs, OrCAD Capture supports circuit reuse and hierarchical circuit blocks. Such designs are easy to
traverse with navigation aids and OrCAD Capture ensures that all connections are maintained accurately throughout the design.

Intelligent PDF
The Intelligent PDF export in OrCAD Capture enables you to create content-aware PDFs of your schematic design. More than just a
.pdf file with searchable text, the content-aware
PDF retains intelligent design information, allowing you to query signals, display properties, navigate hierarchical blocks, and more.
These PDFs eliminate the need for other team members to have additional software licenses or specialized viewers
for design reviews, increasing the ease of collaboration and communication.
Design reuse
The reuse of existing logical (and physical) circuits that you have already tested and proven is one of the best ways to reduce your
design time and maximize quality. Having already been placed, routed, and validated on a previous design, the effort you put into the
original design is leveraged through OrCAD Capture’s design reuse capabilities. Typical reuse examples include power supply modules,
RF circuit designs, multi-channel circuits (I/O, drivers, etc.), and memory.
FPGA design-in
If your designs call for FPGA devices, OrCAD Capture supports an FPGA co-design flow with OrCAD FPGA System Planner and
extensive design-in capabilities. FPGA component data can be quickly be imported to create single- and multi-section symbols based
on the device I/O pin files. Support for split parts, power pin visibility, pin shape, and pin group management provide flexibility to tailor
symbol creation to your design’s needs.
Schematic Design Solutions and Flows
Component information system
OrCAD CIS is a central part of the OrCAD Capture design solution. When added to OrCAD Capture, it automatically synchronizes
and validates the externally sourced parametric component data with the schematic design database. CIS works with databases
that comply with Microsoft’s ODBC standard to directly access data in an MRP, ERP, or PLM system, or in an intermediate database
dedicated to engineering component data.
With easy access to parametric component data and part information, you can quickly identify and design with preferred components,
reducing the amount of time spent researching parts. Parts can be queried based on their electrical, physical, or corporate character-
istics and automatically retrieved for use in your schematic.
FPGA co-design
OrCAD Capture, together with the OrCAD FPGA System Planner product, addresses the challenges you encounter when designing
large-pin-count FPGAs for the PCB: creating the initial pin assignment, integration with the schematic, and ensuring that the device
is routable on your PCB. Together, they deliver a complete, scalable solution for FPGA/PCB design-in and co-design that automates
creation of optimum “device rules-accurate” pin assignment, symbol creation, and flow. By replacing manual, error-prone processes
with automatic pin-assignment synthesis, this unique placement-aware solution helps eliminate unnecessary physical design iterations
that shorten design time.
Design variants
With the design variants capability, included in OrCAD CIS, you can manage unlimited board assembly variations without having to
maintain duplicate schematics or manually edit individual BOMs. This capability reduces the number of files by maintaining all design
assembly variations within a single design and outputs. On the schematic canvas, substituted and/or unplaced components within
each assembly are displayed through graphical indicators for easy reference.
PSpice simulation
The OrCAD PSpice analog/mixed-signal circuit simulator solution is seamlessly integrated within OrCAD Capture to boost productivity
and allow you to use the same schematic for both simulation exploration and PCB layout, reducing rework and errors. Even if you’re
not creating a circuit for use in the PCB flow, the integration allows for easy setup, model placement, circuit creation, and simulation,
as well as cross-probing of simulation results.
OrCAD Symbol Editor
If you can’t find a symbol in your component library, sometimes this task can be daunting to create a new symbol from scratch. But
not with the OrCAD Symbol Editor. You have more anchor points on objects for precisely drawing a symbol. Also, in the Enhanced
Symbol Editor, there’s no need to leave symbol creation environment to perform any edits/changes including unlimited Undo and Redo
capability. Symbol creation is easy, faster and much more efficient. Associate a PSpice model in the process of model creation itself.
You can add a custom image to the symbol to differentiate it or it to its graphic look. Configure pin across the package in one go to
create the most accurate symbol
Capture Constraint Manager
While you’ve enjoyed the comprehensive OrCAD PCB constraint management for many years, the same mature and widely used
constraint management functionality is now integrated with Capture to bring you the best front-2-back integrated constraint
management system. Constraint driven flow is now enabled through one constraint manager for schematics and PCB Layout. One
GUI, one way to interact with CM whether the user is working with schematics or with SI or with layout; no translation of constraints,
Real-Time Design now provides seamless, push button sync-up of constraints between logic and layout helping PCB designers fix errors
as they arise. Constraints are part of the design intent and travel with netlist to layout during floorplanning, placement and interactive
routing ensuring constraint adherence and visibility across the design flow. Capture constraint management system is completely
integrated within the OrCAD PCB design solution and can be validated in real time as the decision process proceeds. The result of the
validation process is a graphical representation of whether the constraint passed (highlighted in green) or failed (highlighted in red).
Signal integrity
Tightly integrated to provide a bi-directional schematic entry and signal integrity flow, OrCAD Capture and the OrCAD PCB SI
product allow you to perform circuit topology exploration, constraint development, and signal integrity analysis from the schematic
during design entry. The associated Electrical Constraint set (Electrical CSet) as well as the complete topology file is embedded in the
schematic database.
PCB Design
Seamless bi-directional integration with OrCAD PCB Editor in the OrCAD PCB Designer products enables synchronization and cross-
probing/placing between the schematic and the board. The interface makes synchronizing connectivity and design rules easy and
straightforward, and automates back-annotation of engineering change orders (ECOs) including layout changes, gate/pin swaps, and
changes to component names or values.
Open Architecture Platform
Enabling an extensible and customizable design environment, the OrCAD open architecture platform incorporates a highly integrated
Tcl/HTML5 programming infrastructure that allows the creation or enhancement of features, functionality, design capabilities, and
flows. The Tcl programming interface provides programming access to the user interface, command structure, connectivity objects,
and design database. Custom features that do not exist natively can be created, further enhancing and extending the OrCAD
environment.

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