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Cadence® 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. OrCAD Capture CIS integrates the schematic design
application with the features of a component information system (CIS).
While the Capture INI settings are always dynamic, the CIS settings are more or less static and usually do not change after the initial CIS database related setup. You may often need to clear out and reinitialize your Capture INI settings, but may still want to retain the CIS settings. To allow this, OrCAD 16.5 now retains the CIS INI settings in a separate back-up file. This file retains the CIS INI settings that Capture will retrieve when it re-initializes the Capture INI settings.
The 16.5 release comes with the productivity enhancing feature of partial design simulation. You can now identify individual components of any design, and, using the partial design simulation feature, simulate only selected portions. Using this feature, you can simulate different circuits in the design with different simulation profiles. You can also netlist only a particular portion of the design. In addition, you can compare and merge portions of a design quickly.
- Provides fast, intuitive schematic editing
- 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
- Integrates with a robust component information system (CIS) to promote reuse of preferred, current parts
The full-featured schematic editor enables users to place and connect parts from a comprehensive
set of functional libraries.
The project manager enables users to collect and organize all the resources needed for the project
throughout the design flow.
OrCAD Capture boosts schematic editing efficiency by enabling subcircuit reuse—without having to
make multiple copies.
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.
Designers can access all part, net, pin, and title block properties or any subset and make changes
quickly through the spreadsheet property editor. It simply requires selecting a circuit element, a
grouped area, or an entire page, and then editing part, net, or pin properties.
OrCAD Capture CIS integrates the features of a component information system with Cadence
schematic capture technology. This reduces production delays and cost overruns through efficient
management of components. The time spent searching existing parts for reuse, manually entering
part information content, and maintaining component data is reduced.
The ActiveParts fully integrated online component library enables designers to search and select
components from more than two million parts. Such a significant improvement in access to parts
provides users with a completely new level of design flexibility.
CIS also provides powerful report generation. Instead of limiting designers to just those properties
that reside in the schematic, CIS draws from the extensive wealth of information that resides in the
preferred part database, taking report generation to the next level. Designers can generate BOMs
using up-to-date, comprehensive, and complete information, and create reports through the Crystal
report engine.
- Accepts plugins for programmable logic design and analog simulation
- Allows for design creation and simulation in the same environment
- Works with Microsoft’s ODBC-compliant databases
- Users can access data directly in an MRP, ERP, and PDM
Cadence technology provides an extensive set of documentation, which includes user guides,
context-sensitive help (F1), reference guides, online tutorials, and multimedia demonstrations.
The system documentation set helps you to:
- Find the answer you need by searching the online help system and navigate quickly between related topics with extensive hypertext cross-references
- Learn the technology with the help of online interactive tutorials
- Find information on error and warning scenarios
- Pentium 4 (32-bit) equivalent or faster
- Windows XP (Professional & Home, Vista (except Home Basic), Windows 7, and Windows Server 2003
- Minimum 512MB (1G or more recommended for XP and Vista Enterprise requirements)
- 300MB swap space (or more)
- CD-ROM drive
- 65,000 color Windows display with minimum 1024 x 768 (1280 x 1024 recommended)