New platform delivers five-times faster PCB design

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. now offers the new Cadence OrCAD X Platform, a cloud-enabled system design solution that delivers transformative improvements in ease of use, performance, automation and collaboration. The new OrCAD X Platform facilitates the system design process and empowers designers via cloud scalability and AI-powered placement automation technology, allowing up to 5X reduction in design turnaround time.

With particularly higher productivity facilitated by cloud-connected capabilities, including data management, collaborative layout design and a new easy-to-use layout environment optimised for small and medium businesses, this next-generation platform comprises everything in the OrCAD platform and more. Supercharged with powerful layout productivity improvements based on the Cadence Allegro X Platform, it supplies complete backward data compatibility with OrCAD and Allegro technologies.

The platform can access automated placement through the Allegro X AI system, which decreases transformative placement time from days to minutes. Users can accomplish these placement time decreases while simultaneously managing signal integrity, power integrity and thermal design effects during placement, routing critical signals, and generating power planes.

“Cadence is committed to delivering optimal system design solutions that incorporate the power of generative AI and the cloud to enable the fastest turnaround times,” said Michael Jackson, corporate vice president of R&D in the Custom IC and PCB Group at Cadence. “The new OrCAD X platform will have a transformative impact, offering customers greater productivity through ease of use, cloud-enabled data management, AI-powered automation, improved engine performance and integration with Cadence’s system design and analysis product portfolio.”

The AI-based platform supports the company's Intelligent System Design strategy, which allows customers to accelerate system innovation.