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Listed below is the full range of manuals, tutorials, and technical articles for P-CAD 2006 and P-CAD 2004. Documents for earlier versions of P-CAD are also available.


P-CAD 2006 General Documentation
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P-CAD 2006 Feature Highlights 1.77MB Outlines the new features of P-CAD 2006
P-CAD 2006 Installing Your Software Quickstart Guide 1.43MB The Installing Your Software Quickstart Guide steps you through the installation and license activation process of your P-CAD 2006 software and the Bonus Technologies.
P-CAD 2004 General Documentation
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New features of P-CAD 2004 490KB Outlines the new features of P-CAD 2004
P-CAD 2004 Trial Version Getting Started 1.05MB This booklet takes you through the essentials of P-CAD 2004 to assist you in getting started.
P-CAD 2004
Installing your software Quickstart Guide
1.57MB The Installing your software Quickstart Guide steps you through the installation and license activation process of your P-CAD 2004 software and the Bonus Technologies.
Trial Version
Installing your software Quickstart Guide
1.33MB The Installing your software Quickstart Guide steps you through the installation and license activation process of your P-CAD 2004 Trial Version software and the Bonus Technologies.
P-CAD 2004 Interface for SPECCTRA 233KB This manual explains how to use the P-CAD SPECCTRA, autorouter (SP6, SP10, SP4, and SP2) interface. These autorouters work differently than other P-CAD autorouters.
P-CAD 2004 User Guides
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P-CAD 2004 Circuit Simulator 1214KB The Mixed-Signal Circuit Simulator User's Guide explains how to perform mixed-signal simulations of analog and digital designs. As you read this manual, you will find all the information you need to get up and running with the simulator, such as learning how to use the features required to prepare your circuit, perform a variety of types of simulation analyses, and plot and manipulate the result waveforms.
P-CAD 2004 Interplace 973KB This manual provides information about P-CAD InterPlace. P-CAD InterPlace (IPL) is a productivity enhancing tool that integrates seamlessly into the P-CAD suite of circuit board design products.
P-CAD 2004 Library Executive 2204KB This manual is a combined user's guide and reference manual for P-CAD Library Executive. Library Executive is a utility, with a user-friendly interface, used in conjunction with P-CAD PCB and P-CAD Schematic to efficiently create and maintain component data. These components can then be placed into PCB and Schematic designs.
P-CAD 2004 PCB 3581KB This manual provides information about P-CAD PCB, a full-featured printed circuit board design system, and P- CAD PCB (6/400), a reduced-capacity printed circuit board design system.
P-CAD 2004 PCS 671KB This manual provides information about the P-CAD Parametric Constraint Solver. With PCS, designers can comprehensively view and manipulate Schematic and PCB design rules in rule-precedence order. Most importantly, design rules can be defined as constant values or mathematical expressions, and may also be defined in terms of other design rules, providing a parametric, precedence-based, rules-driven system
P-CAD 2004 Schematic 2572KB This manual provides information about P-CAD Schematic. P-CAD Schematic distinguishes itself with a suite of features that make schematic creation fast and easy. It includes a powerful combination of placement, editing, and browse tools to quickly achieve superior design results.
P-CAD 2004 Signal Integrity 1337KB This manual includes information on the use and operation of P-CAD Signal Integrity and P-CAD Xtalk
The information in this manual is presented in tutorial and reference format. It is designed to get you started simulating, and to present some advanced features which will be helpful as you gain more experience of the functionality of the simulators.
P-CAD 2004 Tutorials 
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P-CAD 2004 Library Executive 504KB During this tutorial, you will investigate how to create libraries and components from scratch, as well as how to use the Symbol and Pattern Editors.
P-CAD 2004 PCB 849KB During this tutorial, you will explore the PCB design process from setting up the workspace and placing objects through to Gerber file output. This tutorial uses some demonstration files that are supplied with P-CAD.
P-CAD 2004 Schematic 986KB This booklet contains five tutorials that will take you through a Schematic design session from setup to printing
P-CAD 2004 Signal Integrity 657KB This tutorial includes hands-on instructions to help you become familiar with how to use P-CAD Signal Integrity to analyze and simulate your PCB designs and to investigate remedies to signal integrity problems.
Bonus Technologies Learning Guides
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AR0128 Situs Autorouting Essentials* 162KB This article looks at the essentials of the Situs autorouter, with information about board setup, design rules and a summary of the routing passes and routing strategies.
WP0101 Topological Autorouting™ -Mapping the changing space 134KB This paper outlines the limitations of current autorouting technologies when faced with the geometric constraints imposed by advancing component and board design technologies, such as staggered pin and ball grids and irregular shapes, and introduces the concept of topological analysis as applied to the autorouting process in Altium's next-generation autorouter – Situs™.
TR0116 Design Rules Reference* 5.83MB This comprehensive reference provides detailed information on setting up design rules for a PCB design and the Situs Autorouter. Detailed information for each of the individual rule types and their associated constraints is also provided.
AP0107 Impedance Controlled Routing* 89KB This application note discusses the new layer-specific controls that have been added to PCB routing width rules. These may be defined manually based on the user's own impedance calculations, or they may be calculated by the software based on the characteristic impedance value provided.

* These articles have been written specifically with regard to design flows within the Altium Designer environment. Some information contained in these articles may not be relevant to P-CAD customers using the Bonus Technologies.