Design Environment

• 60" x 60" max. board size, 64,000 pad styles & 64,000 nets per design
• Full forward and back ECOs
• Design rules defined per design, layer, net class, net, class-to-class, room, component
• Rules defined by mathematical expressions & updated automatically
• Enhanced design technology parameter files put design in compliance with the desired technology or rule set
• Application Programming Interface for reading data from and writing data to an open design or library
• Backward compatibility supported
• Integrated Variants

Design Entry

• Support for up to 999 sheets
• Crossprobe components and nets
• Extensive electrical rules checking with many techniques to manage errors
• Intelligent zones with automatic off-sheet references for nets across multiple sheets
• Fully linked mixed-mode DXP simulation module
• Schematic symbol wizard and library manager
• Longer component, net, net class and sheet names
• Selection of highlighted objects
• Move multiple components and parts by reference designator
• Add vertices to existing lines and wires

PCB Place and Edit

• EPD 2.0 Support
• ODB++ Support
• True Type Support in Gerber (and ODB++)
• Design Manager
• Visual Placement Area
• Move Component by Property Dialog X, Y location
• Zoom Highlighted
• Zoom Selected
• Zoom Board Outline
• Delete Vertex
• Display Nets in any color
• Separate Copper Pour Connection Definitions for Pads and Vias
• Renumber Components
• Don't report unused pads as unconnected in DRC
• Checkbox in Force Update to preserve manually changed alternate pattern graphics
• List box sorting for Text Style, Pad Style, Via Style and Component Name/Type
• Hatch Style Display for Keepouts
• Support for 999 layers
• Stackup feature to manage the physical layer stack-up for the active PCB design
• User-defined layer pairing for more intelligent pad and via flipping
• Longer component, net, net class and sheet names
• User-definable layer ordering used for DRC, NC drill, Gerber
• Unlimited user-defined layer sets for printing, Gerber, NC Drill, DXF out & display
• Multiple internal planes: plane layers can be assigned to any net
• Split planes with net intelligence
• Copper pours with design rule clearances, hatched or solid fills, island removal and plowed tracks: thermals or direct connections are auto-placed for pads and vias
• Definable copper pour order
• On/off toggling for screen drawing of copper pour fills
• Multiple copper ties, without compromising netlist integrity
• Island removal based on interior placement, size, or sub-selection
• Pad definitions by layer (pad stacks) 
• Custom pad shapes & apertures & support for pads with offset holes
• Multi-layer interstitial vias (blind, buried)
• Manual & automatic pin and gate swaps for net optimization
• Add/remove net node feature
• Expanded net/layer rules allow addition on a per layer basis
• Visual placement areas graphically display where a component can be placed without violating the defined constraints
• Renumbering of reference designators by section or entire design
• Move multiple components and parts by reference designator
• On-the-fly creation or update of patterns while in an active layout
• Automatic selection of multiple pattern graphics depending on component orientation & placement layer
• Hierarchical design rules for class-to-class, net, net class, & design level precedence
• Text style support in DTP files
• User-defined pad-to-pad, pad-to-line, pad-to-via, line-to-line, line-to-via, and via-to-via clearances
• Layer-by-layer clearance checking
• Teardropping utility for smooth transitions from traces to pads
• Intelligent dimensioning
• Selection of highlighted objects
• Add vertices to existing lines and traces
• Print current display for easy documentation
• Fix routable objects to protect critical placements
• Single selection mode for control over co-located objects
• DRC keepouts report violations when routing
• Non-netlisted component pad support
• Fanout enhancements
• Test points - with comprehensive rule support & reporting facilities
• User customizable drawing order of layers and objects for screen and printing
• Drill Symbols displayed on screen
• Physical board outline and cutouts supported as objects
• Orthogonal dragging of lines when moving lines or components

Routing

• Differential Pairs Interactive Route Tool
• Multi-Route Interactive Route Tool
• Definable trace widths up to 394 mils (1 cm)
• Real-time connectivity
• Any angle, 45-degree, 90-degree, and curved placement modes
• Auto via insertion when manually routing from one layer to another
• Backtrack and redundant trace cleanup, and loop removal Y- and T-routing 90-degree arc, 45-degree corner, and Y- & T-junction mitering
• Route to free copper making it "hot"
• Interactive routing features include: trace pushing, bus routing, multi-wire routing, fan-out routing
• Interactive routing modes include: maximum hugging, minimum length
• Match net length rule to constrain the difference in routed length in the same net class
• Calculation and display of possible routing paths
• Min/Max net width design rules for better support for unrouted nets for simulation and impedance calculations.
• Unroute command for manual or automatic net unrouting
• Advanced Route Tool for enhanced control over trace placement. A Plow Routing function will plow around copper pours, board cutouts, board edges, and keepouts while contouring around vias.
• SPECCTRA® interface
• Batch DRC for clearance, silk screen, copper pour, drill, plane, clearance & netlist violations; unrouted nets; unconnected pins

Autorouting (Situs)

• Topological route path mapping (not constrained to horizontal/vertical paths)
• Automatic costing analysis and route strategy selection
• Multiple routing passes, including: memory, pad entry, fanout, hug, spread, straighten, main, multi-layer main, completion and layer patterns
• User-definable routing strategies
• Follows all electrical and routing design rules
• Supports split power planes
• Automatic SMD neckdown

Signal Integrity

• Well-proven algorithms for the accurate calculation of transmission line characteristics and simulations
• Launches directly from the PCB
• Performs fast simulation of reflection & crosstalk effects on selected nets
• Uses I/O buffer macro-models, so no prior simulation knowledge is required
• Oscilloscope type display of reflection & crosstalk simulation results with integrated result measurement facilities
• Termination advisor allows quick examination of different what-if termination options
• Extensive library of component models

Design Output

• DXF input/output with layer-mapping, TrueType text and title sheet support
• Full control over Gerber output files with user-definable path and extensions
• Manual or automatic aperture generation with support for custom pad shape apertures
• Full control over NC Drill file generation with user-definable path and extensions, x-y offset, layers, and hole selection
• Manual or automatic assignment of drill tools
• Custom reports allow field selection and selection criteria plus sorting options
• Detail and diagram support
• Print current display feature
• Dimension editing improvements
• IDF translation for easy data transfer to and from electrical and mechanical CAD/CAE systems
• User-specified units supported in IDF export files
• WebQuote feature
• Automatically export files from PCB editor to CAMtastic

Library Management

• Integrated libraries that contain symbol, pattern, packaging & electrical definition of components
• Parametric pattern graphics - allowing creation of multiple & varying pattern graphics for a single component
• Graphical Wizards for symbol & pattern creation
• Predefined & user-definable component attributes
• Mapping of corporate component database attributes to P-CAD attributes
• Full copy/paste support between libraries
• Full access to up to 100 libraries at once, with order control for searching
• Ability to create named sets of component libraries
• Full library reporting features
• Access to a complete array of regularly updated libraries, developed and maintained under an ISO 9001 quality system