An overview of common uses for Copper Planes and Pours within your design including: power distribution, electromagnetic interference reduction, EMI shielding, ESD guard bands, and heat sinks.
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Get a first look at what’s new in the latest release. With a singular focus on improving your design experience and productivity this release provides a host of new capabilities and enhancements...
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See how we bring real-time supply chain intelligence into the design phase with OrCAD’s Compliance Module powered by Silicon Expert.
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During design the only constant is change. See how OrCAD provides real-time revision control and file management to ensure you are always working on the latest and greatest and always have access...
Real-Time: Part Selection
New Design. New Parts, New Problems. See how OrCAD provides real-time access to comprehensive part data so you can find the parts you need without ever leaving your CAD environment
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Get real-time access to the world's largest, cloud-based PCB CAD Library with Ultra Librarian for OrCAD without ever leaving OrCAD Capture. Ultra Librarian is the world's largest database of...
On-Demand Webinar: The 3 R's of PCB Design: Reuse, Recycle, Re-purpose
Join the PCB design experts at EMA for a dive into the various aspects of reusable design content and how you can leverage your CAD system to get the most out of your engineering IP now and in the...
On-Demand Webinar: 3D PCB Design and Analysis: When ECAD Meets MCAD and MCAD Meets ECAD
Many designs have been derailed by conflicts between ECAD and MCAD. Fortunately modern PCB design tools and practices have been developed to ensure MCAD and ECAD can stay in sync. Join the experts...
PartLink App Powered by Digi-Key
Populate part data directly from Digi-Key to be used in the BOM.
On-Demand Webinar: Managing PCB Design Complexity
Learn how to effectively drive design success without driving yourself crazy in this webinar from the experts at EMA
4X Faster Timing Closure on Memory Subsystems with Allegro TimingVision Environment
In this 3-minute video, Bill Munroe, principal PCB designer in the company's Post-Silicon Group, talks about how the technology helped his team achieve 4X faster timing closure on DDR3 and DDR4...
SiliconExpert CONNECT BOM Risk: Getting Started
An overview of the Silicon Expert CONNECT BOM Risk app. This video will help you implement BOM Risk Analysis in your designs. NOTE: you need to be connected to the internet for this app to work...
On-Demand Webinar: Serial Link Design - Meeting the Need for Speed
Things aren’t just getting faster; they are getting exponentially faster at a dramatic rate. As such more interfaces are relying on serial communication to meet their speed and data transfer...
Real-Time Revision Control
During design the only constant is change. See how OrCAD provides real-time revision control and file management to ensure you are always working on the latest and greatest and always have access...
Whiteboard Wednesdays: Best Practices for Schematic Layout
After developing the design specifications from the customer’s requirements, creating a schematic can seem daunting. So where should you begin? This episode of Wednesday will discuss how to create...
Whiteboard Wednesdays: Best Practices for Routing
There are many different ways to route a board, based on the constraints available in your PCB software. While we know routing is subjective, this episode of Whiteboard Wednesday will review three...
On-Demand Webinar: Optimizing Power Supply Design
Precise and efficient power delivery is more important than ever in our always-on, always connected world. Learn how to design and implement power supplies that will ensure your product is powered...
Whiteboard Wednesday: Designing for Testing, JTAG
A brief overview of why design for test is important with a focus on what JTAG testing is and when it makes sense to utilize it.
Whiteboard Wednesday: What is Coupling
This episode of Whiteboard Wednesday will review what coupling is and what you can do to combat crosstalk caused by undesirable coupling.
SiliconExpert CONNECT BOM Risk Overview
Discovering issues with part status and availability late in the design process can be detrimental to your project, causing production delays and costly respins due to bill of materials (BOM)...