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 Is the full featured EXTRACTA available in Orcad pcb designer standard? 

Last post Fri, Aug 26 2011 8:07 AM by fxffxf. 2 replies.
Started by Raull 25 Aug 2011 03:25 PM. Topic has 2 replies.
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  • Thu, Aug 25 2011 3:25 PM

    • Raull
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    Is the full featured EXTRACTA available in Orcad pcb designer standard? Reply

    Hello,

    I have Hyperlynx for simulation but it requires EXTRACTA to convert a .brd Allegro file to a .hyp file.

    Does anyone know if the full featured EXTRACTA is available in Orcad pcb designer standard?

    The reason I ask is because I do not do any PCB design at all. Therefore I would like the lowest cost Cadence product to get EXTRACTA in my machine and Hyperlynx can do it's extraction.

    Any tips will be appreciated.

    Best regards
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  • Fri, Aug 26 2011 6:01 AM

    • Ejlersen
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    Re: Is the full featured EXTRACTA available in Orcad pcb designer standard? Reply

    Hi

    Extracta is standard functionality in all tiers of PCB Editor (OrCAD and Allegro)

    If you buy a PCB Designer professional you get an integrated signal integrity solution where you can extract nets directly from the PCB

    Best regards

    Ole

    Best regards Ole
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  • Fri, Aug 26 2011 8:07 AM

    • fxffxf
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    Re: Is the full featured EXTRACTA available in Orcad pcb designer standard? Reply

    The basic extracta exe callable at the OS level (e.g a DOS command window or XTerminal) is unlicense. For certain calculated properties, it may require the presence of some high level licenses to perform the calculation but I would say that for over 99% of extract-able properties no access to Cadence licenses is required. You do not need to license to install a Cadence product and pretty much any back-end product includes extracta exe.

    Of course,  this requires some knowledge to using a OS level command window and maybe leveraging bat files or perl scripts to allow automating of the design extraction. You would also need to know what view files are required.

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