OrCAD family products offer a total solution for your core design tasks: schematic-, Verilog-, and VHDL-based design entry; digital, analog, and mixed-signal simulation; and printed circuit board layout. What's more, OrCAD family products are a suite of applications built around an engineer's design flow—not just a collection of independently developed point tools. OrCAD Capture is just one element in our total solution design flow. Capture is a versatile design entry product you can use to create schematics for analog or mixed signal designs, printed circuit board layout designs, and programmable logic designs. First, create your flat or hierarchical design in the schematic page editor, and then use Capture’s tools to quickly annotate it and prepare it for the next stage of development.

The goal is to provide electrical/electronic engineers the state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of Electronic Design Automation. They shall be trained on most recent and sought after tools available in the EDA industry. This will enhance their expertise and promote their career prospects in Pakistan and abroad.

• Uses and applications
• Installation
• Getting started
• Capture interface - Introduction to views and menus

• Project Manager - corresponding views and menus
• Schematic page editor
• Part editor
• Programmer’s editor
• Session log
• Tool bar and tool palettes
• Status bars
• Moving or resizing graphic objects
• Undoing, redoing and repeating actions
• Accessories menu

• Project creation
• Creating/Adding design files, libraries, VHDL files to a project
• Opening existing projects, designs, libraries, and VHDL files
• Working with files in a project
• Saving projects, designs, and libraries
• Closing a project

• Defining design preferences: Colors, Print/Plotting Grid Display, Pan & Zoom, Select etc
• Project template
• Title block information
• Schematic page size
• Viewing design information.
• Changing properties of schematic page

• Flat design
• Hierarchical designs - simple & complex
• Connecting schematic folders and pages

• Parts and library management
• Placing and editing (properties) parts
• Placing and editing power/GND symbols
• Placing and editing NO-CONNECT symbols
• Placing and editing hierarchical blocks
• Placing and editing hierarchical ports and hierarchical pins
• Placing and editing off-page connectors
• Placing and connecting wires and buses

• Homogenous and heterogeneous parts
• Creating a new part
• Attaching a schematic folder
• Attaching pins
• Pin types
• Editing an existing part

• Annotate
• Back annotate
• Update properties
• Design rules check
• Create netlist
• Cross reference
• Bill of Materials
• Import/Export properties

• Setting up the design for use with layout
• Layout part properties
• Layout net properties
• Layout pin properties
• Creating a netlist for layout
• Loading a netlist in layout
• Cross probing

• Specifying simulation model libraries
• Creating a design for PSpice A/D simulation
• Adding and defining stimulus
• Setting up and running analysis
• Viewing results