Starting with OrCAD and Cadence Allegro PCB
- IT & Software
- Mar 01, 2025

Starting with OrCAD and Cadence Allegro PCB, available at Free, has an average rating of 4.6, with 34 lectures, based on 705 reviews, and has 14333 subscribers.
You will learn about After this course, you will understand the essentials of working with OrCAD and Cadence Allegro PCB. This course is ideal for individuals who are College / University students: During this course you will learn the essentials of working in Cadence software. OrCAD and Allegro are used in the biggest companies which are designing electronic boards or products. Knowing how to work with this software can give you an advantage when applying for a job. As a college / university student, you may be able to get a free license of OrCAD and Cadence Allegro. or Junior / Senior hardware design engineers: During this course you will go through process of designing a simple board. It gives you a quick view through the whole work flow and explains the most essential parts of design process in OrCAD and Allegro. This course can be very useful when you are starting with Cadence or when you are moving to Cadence from a different CAD system. It is particularly useful for College / University students: During this course you will learn the essentials of working in Cadence software. OrCAD and Allegro are used in the biggest companies which are designing electronic boards or products. Knowing how to work with this software can give you an advantage when applying for a job. As a college / university student, you may be able to get a free license of OrCAD and Cadence Allegro. or Junior / Senior hardware design engineers: During this course you will go through process of designing a simple board. It gives you a quick view through the whole work flow and explains the most essential parts of design process in OrCAD and Allegro. This course can be very useful when you are starting with Cadence or when you are moving to Cadence from a different CAD system.
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Summary
Title: Starting with OrCAD and Cadence Allegro PCB
Price: Free
Average Rating: 4.6
Number of Lectures: 34
Number of Published Lectures: 34
Number of Curriculum Items: 34
Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 34
Original Price: Free
Quality Status: approved
Status: Live
What You Will Learn
Who Should Attend
Target Audiences
Learning a basic board design is essential for everyone who would like to work in electronics or who would like to design electronic boards or products. Learning board design in the right software can open you door into many companies, help you to聽get a well paid job and can be used to design very complex and advanced boards.
Design聽a simple board in聽OrCAD and Allegro PCB
– Draw a聽schematic
– Route PCB
– Generate the essential files for PCB manufacturer
Cadence software is very powerful
During this course you will learn the basics of using Cadence software.聽OrCAD and Allegro聽are聽professional software used to design the most advanced electronics聽boards. This software is聽used in the biggest companies. Learning OrCAD and Allegro is useful聽for everyone planning or already working in electronics.
Contents and Overview
You will create a simple LED circuit. The course videos are step-by-step and even if you are new in electronics or you have never used OrCAD or Allegro聽before, by repeating these steps, you will design your board. By the end of this course, you will learn all the most essential information to be able to start using and聽discovering Cadence by yourself.锟?/p>
Within 1 hour聽you will learn how to:
– Draw schematic
– Create and update聽schematic symbols
– Create and update聽footprints
– Place components into your PCB
– Route simple聽PCB
– Print from PCB and schematic
– Create聽Bill of Material (BOM)
– Generate Gerbers and聽Drill file
For everyone who would like to learn how to start with OrCad and Cadence Allegro PCB.
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Course Curriculum
Chapter 1: Drawing Schematic and Creating libraries
Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 2: What you will learn during this course
Lecture 3: Starting a new project
Lecture 4: Create resistor – Schematic symbol
Lecture 5: Create LED – Schematic symbol
Lecture 6: Create connector – Schematic symbol
Lecture 7: Create through hole pin – Padstack Editor
Lecture 8: Create smd pin – Padstack Editor
Lecture 9: Create VIA – Padstack Editor
Lecture 10: Create resistor – Footprint
Lecture 11: Create LED – Footprint
Lecture 12: Create connector – Footprint
Lecture 13: Assign footprints to schematic symbols
Lecture 14: Drawing schematic
Lecture 15: Annotating schematic
Lecture 16: Updating symbol and synchronizing schematic
Chapter 2: PCB Placement and Layout
Lecture 1: Generating netlist
Lecture 2: Creating a new PCB and doing placement
Lecture 3: Creating board outline
Lecture 4: Setting up PCB rules
Lecture 5: Doing PCB layout
Lecture 6: Adjusting polygon shape, adding text, changing grid, moving elements
Lecture 7: Moving tracks, placing components on the bottom side of PCB
Lecture 8: Working with layers, setting up views, single layer mode
Lecture 9: Making change in a pad /VIA and synchronizing it with design and footprints
Lecture 10: Updating resistor footprint
Lecture 11: Updating LED footprint
Lecture 12: Updating PCB with new footprints
Chapter 3: Generating Manufacturing Outputs
Lecture 1: Checking status of PCB (Net connection, Polygons, DRC, .)
Lecture 2: Generating gerber files
Lecture 3: Generating NC drill file
Lecture 4: Printing selected layers
Lecture 5: Generating BOM and printing schematic
Chapter 4: Thank you
Lecture 1: Thank you very much for signing up for this course
Instructors

Robert Feranec
Motherboard designer, Youtuber, Lecturer
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