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Why Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? New Enhanced Backdrill Capability (Reason 4 of 10)

By mcatramb91 | 26 Sep 2016

Adventures in Backdrilling For the past 15 years or so, routing high-speed interfaces handling 5Gbps or higher have become more common in many electrical designs. Transitioning high-frequency signals between layers can greatly affect signal integrity when a portion of plated through-hole (PTH) is left unused, forming an electrical stub. In general, these stubs are a source of impedance discontinuities and signal reflections...

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Why Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? New Padstack Editor – More Than Just a New GUI (Reason 3 of 10)

By edhickey | 19 Sep 2016

Customer inputs are key to product improvements I can read your minds as you digest the features and benefits of our Allegro 17.2-2016 Release. “Oh no, what have they done now to disrupt my environment?” If you have been an Allegro user for many years, you know what I’m talking about. Dot Zero releases as we call them are our chance to make database / schema changes that result in some level of...

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backdrill | Allegro 17.2 | keepouts | masks | padstack | PCB design | Why Move Up to 17.2 | Allegro
Why Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? New Concurrent Team Design Capability (Reason 2 of 10)

By mcatramb91 | 6 Sep 2016

Use teamwork to get off the critical path! When (not if) change happens or scope creeps... the PCB design team is always on the critical path. You can answer this schedule challenge by dynamically scaling resources with the new concurrent team design capabilities in the Allegro 17.2 2016 Release. We created this product offering to provide designers with a quick an easy way to share a common Allegro database to perform...

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Cadence Online Support — Empowering Learning! New Features from July 2016

By Jasmine | 6 Sep 2016

Lots of documents are posted on Cadence Online Support on regular basis. Let us take sneak preview of recently published documents. You can access the database by logging onto http://support.cadence.com . Rapid Adoption Kits (RAK) Allegro PCB Librarian XL Tutorial This tutorial will guide users through a tour of developing library data utilizing PCB Librarian XL. You will review symbol development and the associated...

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cadence online | "PCB design" | application note | Allegro
Sneak Peek: Discussion Topics for Signal and Power Integrity Expert Panel at CDNLive Boston

By TeamAllegro | 30 Aug 2016

Who? Istvan Novak - senior principal engineer at Oracle Kevin Roselle - senior staff engineer at Qualcomm Dale Becker – chief electronics packaging engineer at IBM Stephen Scearce – senior manager of high-speed design at Cisco Ken Willis - product engineering director of high-speed analysis products at Cadence What? Our experts got together and agreed on a set of kickoff topics...

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power integrity | cdnlive boston | signal integrity | PCB design
Five Industry Experts Coming to CDNLive Boston to Discuss Signal and Power Integrity Design Challenges

By TeamAllegro | 8 Aug 2016

Who Are They? Istvan Novak – Senior Principal Engineer at Oracle Kevin Roselle – Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm Stephen Scearce – Senior Manager of High Speed Design at Cisco Dale Becker – Chief Electronics Packaging Engineer at IBM Ken Willis – Product Engineering Director of High-Speed Analysis Products at Cadence What to Expect? East Coast engineers won’t...

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CDNLive | Signal Intregrity | power integrity | Boston | PCB design
What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Persistent Snap and Select? New Capabilities in 16.6-2015!

By Jerry Grzenia | 8 Aug 2016

The 16.6-2015 Allegro PCB Editor release introduces a few new features that provide a persistent capability. Read on for more details. Persistent Snap Overview As an update to the previously added Snap feature, Allegro PCB Editor now features improvements on the popular feature by including Persistent Snap functionality. Users who wish to maintain a specified snap and/or selection type throughout an Allegro session can...

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PCB Layout and routing | Cadence Design Systems | Allegro GUI | Allegro 16.6 | PCB Editor | Layout | PCB design | Grzenia | Allegro PCB Editor
What's Good About ADW’s Model Management? 16.6 Has a Few New Enhancements!

By Jerry Grzenia | 28 Jul 2016

New Model Management capabilities are now available in the SPB 16.6 Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) release. The new model management capability involves creating an environment that manages new model types for the PCB Librarian and other model editors. The benefits: Enhance the 16.6 SI DM Model flow for ease of use Create a new generic adapter to support a file system based model type Create a new generic...

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Allegro 16.6 | flow manager | 16.6 | Allegro Design Workbench | Library flow | Library and design data management | SPB | setup | design data management | design | PCB design | Grzenia | model editor | library | ADW | Allegro
What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Smart Layer Behavior for Add Connect? It’s in the 16.6 Release!

By Jerry Grzenia | 28 Jul 2016

When using the Add Connect command in the 16.6 Allegro PCB Editor , the active layer field will now automatically synchronize to that of a single visible layer. Previously, any visibility adjustment to limit the display to a single etch layer would typically require an additional adjustment to the active layer setting. Invoke the ‘Add Connect’ command. Disable the visibility of all etch layers: Enable...

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PCB | Allegro 16.6 | layer stacks | PCB Editor | Layout | PCB design | Grzenia | Allegro
What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Two-Layer PCB Support? Check Out 16.6!

By Jerry Grzenia | 28 Jul 2016

By default, the top and bottom stackup layers do not support the placement of embedded components. When an attempt is made to change ‘Embedded Status’ to either ‘Body up’ or ‘Body down’, the system will prompt you accordingly. To help facilitate the requirement for placing components between the top and bottom layers, the 16.6 Allegro PCB Editor release now supports the placing of components...

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Why Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? Advanced Flex and Rigid-Flex Design Support (Reason 1 of 10)

By James Frey | 28 Jul 2016

Why Rigid-Flex? For nearly all applications, customers continue to demand smaller, lighter, and more cost-effective products. Competitive pressures also force designers to bring these new products to market at an ever-increasing rate. Designers can deploy flexible PCB materials (flex/rigid-flex) to meet challenging form-factor requirements, eliminate connectors, and improve performance. What New Techniques are...

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Allegro 17.2 | Rigid-Flex | MCAD-ECAD | PCB design | Allegro PCB Editor | IPC-2581 | Why Move Up to 17.2
Cadence Online Support—Empowering Learning! New Learnings—Sigrity 2016

By Jasmine | 26 Jul 2016

Cadence Online Support Features Setting up ‘My Alerts” The My Alerts section displays a count of the new content items added. This is generated taking into account your notification, search and technology platform selections. You can click the link to view the list of new content in a search results page. Use My Support - What's New to explore the new features of Cadence Online Support (COS)....

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PCB SI | Constraint-driven PCB Design flow | PDN | Signal Intregrity | SigXP UI | PCB Signal and power integrity | power integrity | "PCB SI" | signal integrity | "PCB design" | PCB Signal integrity | Allegro PCB SI | SI analysis and modeling | power
Cadence Online Support—Empowering Learning! New Learnings from June 2016

By Jasmine | 22 Jul 2016

Cadence Online Support Features " You might also be interested in ” Section “You might also be interested in” section in Cadence Online Support (COS) section is present immediately under the document being displayed. This provides links to additional material that might be of interest to you. The links are generated dynamically on the basis of the current document being read. Rapid...

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Cadence Online Support – Empowering Learning! New Learnings - February, March 2016

By Jasmine | 22 Jul 2016

Cadence Online Support Features “ Most Popular ”: This section displays content items based on your “search” and technology platform selections. Use My Support - What's New to explore the new features of Cadence Online Support (COS). Product Manuals You can access product manuals for all the supported releases. Have you checked out Sigrity 2016 documents yet? If not, click here...

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PCB | Allegro Design Entry | DEHDL | Capture CIS | Cadence Online Support | Allegro Design Workbench | "PCB design" | Allegro PCB Editor | ConceptHDL | application note | ADW | Allegro
What’s Good About PSpice.com? You’ve Got to See This New Resource Site!

By Jerry Grzenia | 22 Jul 2016

PSpice.com is a new user-community web portal that lets designers, partners, and students access materials related to PSpice® analog and mixed-signal simulation and analysis in one central location. “The PSpice web portal and community is a good resource for any analog or mixed-signal engineer creating an electronic design,” said Makram Mansour, Ph.D., WEBENCH Manager at Texas Instruments. “Within...

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10 Top Reasons to Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016 Release

By hemant | 21 Jul 2016

The Allegro 17.2-2016 release, the largest in the past 10 years, became available in late April 2016. Since 17.2-2016 includes a database change that usually happens with a dot zero release, many of you may be wondering when the right time to migrate to this new release is. Included below is an overview of the Top 10 reasons to move up to the Allegro 17.2-2016 release, so that you can better understand the value of...

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Constraint-driven PCB Design flow | Allegro 17.2 | Allegro GUI | Routing | Constraint Manager | Rigid-Flex | OrCAD | Sigrity | Allegro PCB Editor | Why Move Up to 17.2 | Allegro
What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Snake Router? The 16.6-2015 Release Has Several New Enhancements!

By Jerry Grzenia | 20 Jul 2016

With the 16.6-2015 Allegro PCB Editor release, the Snake pattern router can be enabled from the context menu of the Add Connect command. This functionality provides the ability to route through hex pattern packages utilizing arc routing, which has been greatly improved compared to the existing prototype pattern generator. Simply enable Snake mode via the RMB and Add Connect will detect a hex pattern pin/via field and...

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PCB | PCB Layout and routing | Allegro 16.6 | PCB Editor | Layout | PCB design | Grzenia | Allegro PCB Editor | Allegro
Cadence Sigrity SystemSI Technology Highlighted at CDNLive SV 2016

By TeamAllegro | 27 Jun 2016

This year’s CDNLive Silicon Valley developer conference had more than 125 presentations from 12 different technical tracks. More than 25 exhibitors participated in the Designer Expo. The IC Packaging/Signal Integrity/Power Integrity track featured customer papers on co-design as well as signal, power, and thermal integrity. With the challenge of creating final products as quickly and as efficiently as possible...

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PCB SI | PCB | SI | PCB Signal and power integrity | signal integrity | PCB design | Sigrity
What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Fiber Weave Effect—Zig-Zag Routing? New Capabilities in 16.6-2015!

By Jerry Grzenia | 14 Jun 2016

The 16.6-2015 Allegro PCB Editor release introduces the interactive conversion of Orthogonal and 45-degree routed traces into a Zig-Zag pattern to minimize the Fiber Weave Effect in a Printed Circuit Board (PCB). What is “Fiber Weave Effect”? PCB Dielectric material sheets that are placed between signal and plane layers in a PCB stack-up are constructed from several woven fiberglass fabrics bonded together...

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PCB | PCB Layout and routing | Allegro GUI | Allegro 16.6 | Routing | SPB | PCB Editor | Layout | PCB design | Grzenia | Allegro PCB Editor | Allegro
What's Good About the Latest in ADW? The 16.6-2015 Release Has Several New Enhancements!

By Jerry Grzenia | 25 May 2016

With the Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) 16.6-2015 release, you’ll have several new capabilities that enhance your productivity. Read on for more details … ADW Server Error Logging and Notification The ADW Server can log the errors, warnings, and information messages and report them through e-mails. These messages enable the administrator to monitor the health of the server, and take the necessary corrective...

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PCB | Cadence Design Systems | Allegro Design Workbench | Library and design data management | Grzenia | Librarians | library | ADW
What's Good About the Latest in DEHDL? The 16.6-2015 Release Has Several New Enhancements!

By Jerry Grzenia | 9 May 2016

The 16.6-2015 Design Entry HDL (DEHDL) release contains a few new capabilities! Read on for more details… Read-only Sheet Import In Design Entry HDL (DEHDL), the sheet import command now supports the import of schematic sheets in read-only mode. For details, see the Importing Designs section in Allegro Design Entry HDL User Guide. Component Browser - ADW Mode You can now access the Component Browser in two...

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Cadence Design Systems | hierarchy | Allegro 16.6 | DEHDL | Allegro Design Workbench | hierarchical schematics | SPB | Design Entry HDL | Design Entry | Grzenia | ConceptHDL
What's Good About the Latest Constraint Manager? The 16.6-2015 Release has Several New Enhancements!

By Jerry Grzenia | 25 Apr 2016

Significant enhancements to the 16.6-2015 Constraint Manager release have been made in the following areas: Tag-based ECSet Mapping Single-Step Method for Creating Class-Class Relationships PCSets and SCSets Difference Reports Read on for more details .. . Tag-based ECSet Mapping The process of applying an ECSet to target nets involves mapping the pins in the ECSet to the component pins in design...

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PCB | SI | Allegro 16.6 | SigXP UI | Constraint Manager | signal integrity | Constraints | Grzenia
What's Good About the latest RF PCB? New capabilities in 16.6-2015!

By Jerry Grzenia | 12 Apr 2016

The 16.6-2015 RF PCB release contains many new features and updates. Read on for more details … Allegro Discrete Library to ADS Translator Enhancements This release includes several enhancements in Allegro Discrete Library to ADS translator. The following image illustrates the latest UI of the tool: Support for Schematic Symbol Version You can now define versions for a schematic symbols in the CSV file. On...

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RF | Cadence Design Systems | 16.6 | SPB | Grzenia | Allegro
What's Good About the Latest System-In-Package (SiP)? New Capabilities in 16.6-2015!

By Jerry Grzenia | 28 Mar 2016

Several new features have been added to the 16.6-2015 SiP release. Read on for more details … Co-Design Die Editing in Symbol Edit Application Mode The Symbol Edit Application Mode has been expanded to operate on co-design dies as well. A co-design die is one that was created by the loading of a die abstract. Using the Symbol Edit Application mode, you can refresh a co-design die symbol and also view and edit...

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IC Packaging and SiP Design | Cadence Design Systems | SiP | IC Packaging | Allegro 16.6 | Digital SiP design | Grzenia | Allegro
What's Good About the Latest PSpice? The 16.6-2015 Release Has Several New Enhancements!

By Jerry Grzenia | 7 Mar 2016

The 16.6-2015 PSpice release has several new features and capabilities: VBIC Support Added in PSpice In case of early effect, quasi-saturation, temperature modeling, avalanche multiplication, and so on, VBIC, a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) model, can be used instead of the SPICE Gummel-Poon (SGP) model for better modeling than SGP. Beginning with the 16.6-2015 release, a new Q device, which is a npn-type BJT...

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