OrCAD

OrCAD is a settled from the San Jose (California ) Cadence Design Systems marketed software package, which is used in the field of EDA to develop electronic circuits. It basically involves a program for schematic entry ( OrCAD Capture), a program for manual and automatic disentanglement of printed circuit boards ( PCB OrCAD Designer) and a version of the PSpice circuit simulator for simulating the circuits. The older version of OrCAD Layout has been replaced by the compatible Allegro OrCAD PCB Editor, 2007. Here, the legendary autorouter SPECCTRA came about. Since 2010, many features of Allegro, such as an SI simulator integrated into the OrCAD products and price have been significantly reduced. On the OrCAD Market Place, there are many apps that are partly offered free of charge. This barcode can generate and generate special reports.

The name is an acronym composed of the first two letters of the country of origin of the developer company Oregon and the abbreviation for computer - aided design.