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I am a professional user of Cadense ORCAD for PCB design. I start using its early version in 1990s. I became fond of it until I had the chance to purchase it in 2000 (with thousands of dollars at that time) from the main company in Oregon (before acquired by Cadence). I got all the original manuals and the Parallel port security dongle. Currently there are several PCB design EDA tools such as Eagle, Altium, and Proteus, but in my opinion after trying all of them, ORCAD is the BEST. I used my experience in designing with ORCAD to develop various products for the embedded systems market. I’m proud to completely design around 50 different embedded products and another 50 LED and Energy products. Each design (product) for me is like a baby, I develop it myself starting from the idea to making a breadboard prototype and using ORCAD to draw the schematic and route the PCB. Finally making a PCB prototype before submitting the design files for the PCB factory for volume production. These process takes from two weeks to two months until I go the finished fabricated PCB boards. After getting the PCBs, the boards are assembled manually or automatically (pick and place machine). This is also an extraordinary experience for me. I stopped designing with through hole components since 2000, since that time I’m designing totally with Surface mounted components (SMD). You may check the photos and videos for the “Technoenergy Factory” to have an idea of assembling the PCBs.
The Embedded systems PCBs are fabricated from FR2 and FR4 materials. But the LED PCBs, most of them are metal materials for the proper heat dissipation. The LED boards are used in various LED lighting luminaires, from indicator LED lamps to LED street light lamps. You may also check the photos for the stainless steel stencils used to deploy the solder paste for SMD components.
