OrCAD Capture is also the module for switching inputs from PSpice network lists to simulate analog and mixed-signal circuits.įor designs incorporating programmable devices (such as FPGAs), an Engineering Change Order (ECO) flow is supported, which synchronizes various work steps in the FPGA tool, the circuit diagram, and the PCB Editor by forward and backward annotation.
Changes in the logic can be easily imported into the circuit diagram. It also supports a design methodology that integrates the vendor tools of the FPGA manufacturers into the place and route of programmable blocks. If programmed components are used in the circuit, pin assignments and signals from FPGAs from different manufacturers can be read.
In OrCAD Capture assembly variants can be created with several logic functions for a PCB by different bill of materials for each variant. Variants are defined in the schema editor and later output as variants with different parts lists for each variant. In the case of hierarchically structured designs, the same electrical networks are interconnected via cross-porting ports or defined as global networks. The electrical connections (networks) between the associated component pins can be quickly established. Using the PartBrowser, circuit diagram symbols are selected with the aid of filters from the library and placed in the circuit diagram. Via the navigation window the different pages of the circuit diagram can be selected and thematically managed. OrCAD Capture uses flat or hierarchical circuit diagrams. It is outstanding how simple and intuitive the design intentions are captured.
We ‘ll see how in a dedicated article.OrCAD Capture schematic entry tool for circuit diagrams is one of the world's most widely used software for entering and documenting electrical circuits. OLB.Ĭurrently most of designers use OrCAD Capture for the circuits design, however, the same Capture has a tool to convert project designed with Schematics and convert. SLB while in OrCAD Capture by the couple. In short, in Schematics a component is completely defined by libraries. SLB.īy using the tool of OrCAD Capture, the main project file becomes the. LIB, while libraries that contain graphic symbols associated with the mathematical models are the. The libraries containing the mathematical models to be added to the project are always.
INC containing subcircuits, to be included in the project. NET both automatically generated from Schematics, and files. Creating the design of a circuit with PSpice Schematics, the project will be composed of a schematic file. After, the program was provided with a design tool more advanced, Capture, maintaining the ability to still use Schematics.įortunately, the syntax used to describe a component remained the same, and all libraries with mathematical models, are the. The original CAD Microsim was Schematics.
This is due to the history of PSpice, which initially developed to be used in PC by Microsim passed after to OrCAD which was at last acquired by Cadence. What can be confusing is the number of files with different extensions that belong to this great tool of electronic simulation.
Learn to design a circuit with PSpice is a task quite simple and is enough a few pages of any manual available on line to do it.