Cloud Data Management for PCB Design

Collaborate in a Centralized and Version-Controlled Environment

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Synchronized Data Across Teams

Product development is a collaborative process across many engineering teams. However, when multiple versions of the same design exist on a teammate’s or your local drive, it can lead to data integrity issues. Email becomes the main source of change order communication, removing any chance of audit control, resulting in issues such as lost or missed email communication, duplication of work, and other inefficiencies.

Avoid design missteps with the OrCAD X PCB design platform by creating a single source of truth. With OrCAD X OnCloud, our out-of-the-box data and library management solution, each designer can access and contribute to one central location, streamlining the workflow and keeping users in the design environment, providing structure, reliability, and traceability required in a team environment. Deployment via cloud infrastructure is easy and allows anyone to access data from anywhere, simplifying design collaboration with both internal and external resources. Help your team collaborate and communicate better so you can quickly complete designs and get ahead of the competition.

OrCAD X OnCloud Advantages

Explore the benefits below to see what you will uncover when you try OrCAD X OnCloud!

Data Protection

Protects your organization and employees from data loss, theft, and breaches.

Reuse

Enables designers the ability to revisit and reuse known good circuitry.

Data Sharing

Data sharing across departments and teams by providing a structured approach to storing and accessing data.

Improved Decision Making

Managed data provides managers with better control, insight, and analysis.

Reduction in Redundancy

Centralized data storage removes individual or localized copies of design and library content.

Accountability

Provides visibility into exactly who made what change, when, and why.

Design Data Management

With cloud-enabled workspaces integrated within OrCAD X Capture, project creation and version control are as simple as a point-and-click. Easily improve data organization and distribution by setting up public and private workspaces. Data conflicts are prevented by using implicit file locking, allowing only one designer to have write permission at a time. Watch the video below to learn more.

Collaborative Features in OrCAD X OnCloud

Unified Component Explorer: Cloud-unified part authoring environment inclusive of managing part properties like company part numbers, part descriptions, PCB layout footprints, technical parameters, and more.
Version Control: Supports two-level ASME alpha-numeric revision scheme, including major and minor versions.
Change History: Complete version history, providing full audit and traceability.

Team Collaboration: Role-based access control allows team members to work on the same project from anywhere.
PCB Co-design: No need to partition the design - two users can concurrently work on the same PCB layout database.
Design Review: Digitize the design review process with integrated review and markup capabilities.

Coming Soon

Design collaboration is crucial in the electronics industry as it ensures efficiency, accuracy, and innovation. With multiple engineers, designers, manufacturers, and service bureaus involved, seamless communication helps to prevent errors, reduce costly revisions, and accelerates the overall development process. What if there were collaborative tools and real-time data sharing addressing common use cases like:

Reviewing a PCB design with your layout service bureau
Sharing your feedback on a colleague’s design
Audit markups in the schematic after an initial design review
Examine and comment on a student’s circuit design
Easily provide design access without a software install requirement

Cloud Trust

The Cadence OnCloud platform has layered security protection. It follows Defense-in-Depth (DiD) principles in the protection of systems and data. Cadence uses industry security frameworks, standards, and processes to manage its security and risks.

To learn more about our Cadence OnCloud Security, click here.

*Cloud capabilities are dependent upon product tier and maintenance purchase.