Besides basic drawing and visualization capabilities, modern schematic editors typically provide the following.

 

• The ability to capture electrical properties and other attributes of components, wires, nets and pins.
• Hierarchical way of design.
• Abilities to generate netlists and other common representations of the designed circuit from schematic.
• The ability to generate documentation.
• Libraries of standard components.
• The ability to automatically detect and report errors in the schematic.

 

The practical tasks will be created with the help of the OrCAD family of products. Orcad family products offer a total solution for core design tasks: schematic- and VHDL-based design entry; FPGA and CPLD design synthesis; digital, analog, and mixed-signal simulation; and printed circuit board layout.

 

Orcad family products are a suite of applications built around an engineering design flow—not just a collection of independently developed point tools. Orcad Capture is just one element in the total solution design flow. Capture is a versatile design entry product which can be used to create schematics for analog or mixed signal designs, printed circuit board layout designs, and programmable logic designs.

 

Firstly, the designer/student had to create a 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.