Constraint Management

No matter what type of board you’re designing, proper constraint definition guarantees that your design can meet performance, reliability, and manufacturing specifications. Over the years, miniaturization, regulatory compliance, signal speeds, and safety have made constraint management an essential part of the design process, setting the groundwork for ensuring the functional integrity of your printed circuit boards (PCBs).  

The OrCAD X Constraint Manager’s common interface simplifies the constraint management process by standardizing rule capture and ensuring seamless synchronization between the schematic capture and PCB layout design environments. Electrical engineers and PCB designers can easily define and apply constraints throughout the design cycle for rules such as trace width, clearances, hole sizes, package to package spacing, annular ring dimensions, and more. With its object hierarchy and tabular interface, complex rule sets can be easily managed, validated, and cross-probed within the spreadsheet, making it easy to quickly inspect DRC results and increase the probability of first-time right design success.