Talk:OrCAD

Location of components and interconnects
why dont the printed circuit board have component side and interconnect side on the same side
 * If its a surface mount board, it does. If its through-hole then in many cases you would not be able to get at the pad to solder on the top side because the component would be in the way! Bruern Crossing (talk) 16:20, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Advertising
the Altium links at the bottom (and there are several) seem to be just there as advertising a way from OrCAD to Altium's product family. I recommend removal. I would remove the anti ads as well —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.153.187.188 (talk) 21:05, 13 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Because they're equally bad? It doesn't make much difference now that OrCAD is non existent.  98.194.39.86 (talk) 07:09, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Broken link
The link "OrCAD at Cadence" is broken. --Mortense (talk) 08:04, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Issues with the article
This article has several issues:

a. Cadence Design Systems is listed as the original author and developer? I assume OrCAD products were created by OrCAD Systems and not by Cadence Design Systems.

b. "Capture does not contain in-built simulation features, but exports netlist data to the simulator, OrCAD EE." I assume this is a reference to the next section.

c. Why is PSpice referred to as "OrCAD EE" instead of "OrCAD PSpice" or "OrCAD EE PSpice"? I really don't understand what's the use of the "EE" in between anyway.

d. I don't see a reason for history and analysis to be listed at the same level with PSpice and PCB Designer so I indented them.

e. Actually, the analyses options in all OrCAD I ever used are "Time Domain (Transient)", "DC Sweep", "DC Sweep/Noise" and "Bias Point".

f. "Linear sweep, Logarithmic sweep, and Sweep over List of values". Do they need to be capitalized?

g. Does anybody know why the temperature is 27°C instead of 25°C which is typical in data sheets?

h. Does "Auto-Router" have to be capitalized?

i. There were two "History" sections so I changed the one with the history of the company to "Company" and I placed it at the top of the article. To me, it makes sense to read about the company and then its products. Yet, I get the feeling this article is primarily intended to highlight the products. Still, I think it should also cover the history of the company (unless the section on the history of the company can be split into an article called OrCAD Systems Corporation which is probably appropriate).

ICE77 (talk) 00:43, 24 July 2015 (UTC)