OrCAD X - The Smarter Choice for PCB Designers

OrCAD X delivers a completely redesigned, modern user experience that’s intuitive, easy to learn, and built for the way you really work. With streamlined workflows, smart automation, and a clean, responsive interface, OrCAD X makes PCB design feel effortless.

With Cadence’s industry-leading constraint management, your rules stay consistent and enforced across schematic and layout. Easily define and track complex requirements in real-time, catch violations early, and keep your design intent intact from start to finish. Experience true, integrated constraint management and make first-pass success possible.

With fully integrated simulation and signal and power integrity checks, OrCAD X allows you to validate design performance at every stage. Fast, accurate analysis catches issues early, reduces costly respins, and gives you the confidence that your design will work as intended. Built-in analysis takes the guesswork out of design.

Forget the lag and crashes of other solutions – OrCAD X is built to handle any design, without slowing you down or risking product instability. Smooth responsive performance keeps you productive so that you can focus on design. True performance lets you tackle any design challenge with confidence.

With flexible product tiers, you get exactly the capabilities you want without paying for what you don’t - and when your design demands more, you can seamlessly scale your technology up to the full power of Allegro X. Scalability optimizes cost and keeps you ready for whatever comes next.

OrCAD X offers flexible product tiers and license options, whether you prefer time-based or perpetual, so you only pay for what you need when you need it. It’s a cost-effective way to get industry-leading technology without overcommitting your budget. See how flexible licensing pricing makes powerful design accessible to every individual and team.

Manage design data locally within your organization, use OrCAD X OnCloud for connected data management and collaboration, or deploy on-premises with OrCAD EDM. You get the flexibility and security you need, without being forced into the cloud. True data control gives you freedom and peace of mind.

With OrCAD X, you get real-time, bidirectional co-design with Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS, so your electrical and mechanical teams are perfectly aligned. Design updates move effortlessly between domains, streamlining collaboration and minimizing errors. Integrated MCAD co-design keeps your entire team in sync from concept to production.

OrCAD X is AI-enabled by design, harnessing the power of Allegro X AI’s generative PCB layout to intelligently optimize placement, ground/power pours, and routing in a fraction of the time. And this is just the start – Allegro X AI sets the stage for future AI copilots that will help you make smarter design decisions. AI in OrCAD X redefines what’s possible in PCB design.