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Everything you need to launch your first design in OrCAD.

  • EMA Asking the Right Questions

    EMA Asking the Right Questions

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  • New Engineers: 5 Tips to Start Your EE Career Off on the Right Foot

    New Engineers: 5 Tips to Start Your EE Career Off on the Right Foot

    Whether you’re a recent grad or just a newbie in the field, establishing ways to ensure your career is on the right path is essential. It’s not always as simple as doing your job well—how you...

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  • Working with OrCAD: Creating a New Design

    Working with OrCAD: Creating a New Design

    This week’s Working with OrCAD video, Creating a New design, discusses the multiple ways to create a new design within OrCAD. It also reviews Cadence project manager and where to set up basic...

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  • Working with OrCAD: Outputs

    Working with OrCAD: Outputs

    The final video to our Working with OrCAD series, Outputs, will discuss how to output all the necessary deliverables required by various downstream partners. It will discuss output options such as...

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  • Working with OrCAD: DRC

    Working with OrCAD: DRC

    This week’s Working with OrCAD video, DRC, will discuss how OrCAD can help easily resolve DRCs in your design. The video will cover how view DRC counts, review, waive, or fix them and reports you...

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  • Working with OrCAD: Copper

    Working with OrCAD: Copper

    This week’s Working with OrCAD video, Copper, discusses and the many features Cadence provides designers when dealing with copper shapes in addition to a few design best practices. It covers how...

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  • Working with OrCAD: Routing

    Working with OrCAD: Routing

    This week’s Working with OrCAD video, Routing, show you some additional beneficial setup points as well as show you the different routing options available. The video will also cover the simplest...

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  • Working with OrCAD: Constraint Manager

    Working with OrCAD: Constraint Manager

    This week’s Working with OrCAD video, Constraint Manager, discusses how the constraint manager constitutes the central focus point within OrCAD. This allows the designer to control the physicality...

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  • Working with OrCAD: Cross Section

    Working with OrCAD: Cross Section

    This week’s Working with OrCAD video, Cross Section, will discuss how OrCAD can help you review design specs and determine physical requirements (i.e. controlled impedance, high voltage nets, high...

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  • Working with OrCAD: Series Introduction

    Working with OrCAD: Series Introduction

    Whether you are new user or current customer our new video series, Working with OrCAD, will show help walk you through the basics of designing a board within OrCAD from start to finish. We will...

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  • Working with OrCAD: Placement

    Working with OrCAD: Placement

    This week’s Working with OrCAD video, Placement, will explain OrCAD app modes, as well as different methods you can use to place parts.

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  • Working with OrCAD: Netlist In

    Working with OrCAD: Netlist In

    This week’s Working with OrCAD video, Netlist In, will show you how to quickly and effectively get schematic information, including parts and nets, into your design.

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  • Three Items to Consider Before Deciding to Use Freeware Simulation

    Three Items to Consider Before Deciding to Use Freeware Simulation

    Freeware is great and can be a wonderful way to help expand the use of simulation and provide a great learning ground for users. However, when you are using simulation results to verify design...

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  • Working with OrCAD: Libraries

    Working with OrCAD: Libraries

    This week’s Working with OrCAD video, Libraries, will showcase the different methods to import a board outline and some general best practices to use when creating board outlines. The video will...

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  • Working with OrCAD: Board Outline

    Working with OrCAD: Board Outline

    Last week we introduced you to our new video series, Working with OrCAD. This series is designed to walk you through the basics of designing a board within OrCAD PCB Editor from start to finish.

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  • Maximize your Investment with OrCAD

    Maximize your Investment with OrCAD

    When you decide to purchase an OrCAD product, we want to do everything in our power to ensure your success. Our goal is for you gain the knowledge and skills needed to help you get up and running...

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  • Working with OrCAD: Allegro and OrCAD ABC’s

    Working with OrCAD: Allegro and OrCAD ABC’s

    Whether you are a new user or current customer our new video series, Working with OrCAD, will walk you through the basics of designing a board within OrCAD PCB Editor from start to finish. We...

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  • Tools to Train the Next Generation of Engineers

    New technologies are emerging at a rapid pace. This makes educating the next generation even more pertinent than before.

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  • Things to Consider Before using Open Source Boards

    At this point you may already be familiar with the different open source hardware (OSHW) boards like Arduino and Beagleboard. The concept of open source applies to the design and development of...

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  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective Engineers

    7 Habits of Highly Effective Engineers

    Engineers are responsible for many of the great inventions and technology the world depends on today. Everything from space shuttles to air conditioning systems to hearing aids requires the work...

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