The new OrCAD release 16.2 boasts a sweeping set of improvements aimed at increasing performance and productivity through new features and functionality. The new technology helps deliver shorter, more predictable design cycles for PCB designs. The OrCAD 16.0 release made a significant investment in improving the ease of use of Cadence OrCAD PCB Editor. The new release continues this emphasis on improving ease of use for all products in OrCAD PCB design technologies, from design creation tools in the front end to PCB layout tools in the back end.
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Cadence OrCAD Capture
Cadence OrCAD
Capture boasts productivity and usability improvements including an
updated GUI, enhanced search capabilities and new capability for
designing-in FPGAs. Cadence
OrCAD Capture CIS release 16.2 features Relational Data Management
Support that allows users to create and use relational tables in the CIS
parts database. This new release also contains all of the productivity and
usability improvements highlighted in OrCAD Capture.
Context-Aware Non-Linear Graphic Editing – The capability is a new schematic editing technology for dense design that provides a magnifying auto-zoom between focus point during editing operations. This auto-zoom capability greatly increases productivity by dynamically magnifying the area under cursor as the user moves within the canvas.
Enhanced OrCAD Capture and OrCAD PCB Editor Integration - OrCAD Capture 16.2 comes with better integration with OrCAD PCB Editor. The cross probing and cross placement features enhance flow between OrCAD Capture and OrCAD PCB Editor.
OrCAD Capture FPGA Design-in - New FPGA design-in features include the ability to create split symbols, import and export FPGA pin assignments for leading FPGA vendors tools, and ease-of-use improvements for supporting the ECO process for FPGAs.
New Annotation Type Option - The annotation dialog box now includes a new annotation type list. When annotating your design you can now choose from three sequence options: Default, Left – Right, and Top – Bottom.
DRC Enhancements - The design rules check in OrCAD Capture is enhanced to improve performance on very large designs and to include some new design checks.
Netlist Enhancements - OrCAD Capture release 16.2 includes a new PACK_SHORT property used to short pins on a part. Multiple groups of pins, each group having two or more pins, can be shorted. Users no longer need to update invisible pins because the correct net names are updated for invisible power pins if there is a global net short and a POWER_GROUP is not specified.
OrCAD Layout to OrCAD PCB Editor integration in OrCAD Capture - The OrCAD Layout to OrCAD PCB Editor Translator has been enhanced for converting PCB designs created in OrCAD Layout to OrCAD PCB Editor designs. OrCAD Capture now provides an automatic sync-up of the original schematic design with the translated board design.
User Interface Updates - In OrCAD 16.2, OrCAD Capture and OrCAD Capture CIS have been upgraded with a new, softer look. This upgrade brings uniformity across many of the generic styles in different Cadence products. All new icons were created for OrCAD Capture, OrCAD Capture CIS, Cadence PSpice® A/D.
Cadence OrCAD Capture CIS
OrCAD Capture CIS Configuration File in XML Format – The OrCAD Capture CIS configuration file is in XML format. Giving you the flexibility to read and edit in any text or XML editor.
User Interface Updates - In OrCAD release 16.2, OrCAD Capture and OrCAD Capture CIS have been upgraded with a new, softer look. This upgrade brings uniformity across many of the generic styles in different Cadence products. All new icons were created for OrCAD Capture, OrCAD Capture CIS, and PSpice A/D.
Usability Enhancements - In OrCAD release 16.2, OrCAD Capture and OrCAD Capture CIS come with many enhancements to provide an improved usability experience to users. Starting from new ways of managing multiple windows to the ability to place wires and parts using a crosshair cursor; all enhancements are created to increase ease of use.
