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BoardSurfers: Training Insights - Improving SI/PI Simulation of DDR Interfaces at the PCB/IC Package Level

By mrigashira | 18 Feb 2020

In the days of yore when life was simple, there was a world full of DRAMs (Dynamic Random Access Memory). We have come a long way from there. First came Synchronous DRAMs (SDRAMS). Isn't it neater anyway, SDRAM? More systematic and organized, in tune...

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Allegro Package Designer | Sigrity | Allegro PCB Editor
BoardSurfers: PCB Electronics—Why Use Via Arrays?

By mrigashira | 14 Feb 2020

We all know the ubiquitous via. What is it after all but a way to make electrical connections in a multi-layered PCB? But if you think about it, it must have been a clever ....

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Allegro Package Designer | Allegro PCB Editor
BoardSurfers: High-Speed Design Signal Integrity Challenges and Solutions

By mrigashira | 4 Feb 2020

Usually, people start a blog by stating something dramatic and we used to bring drama to our otherwise staid stuff on PCB design by mentioning High Speed and Signal Integrity. No more. High-speed is the norm because even if your data is not in the ra...

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Sigrity | Allegro PCB Editor
BoardSurfers: Leveraging IPC-2581 Spec Element Capabilities to Streamline Design and Manufacturing Relationship

By Monika | 23 Jan 2020

If you are a PCB designer and follow IPC-2581 guidelines to design a board, this soluti....

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Manuafacturing | PCB Editor | 17.4-2019 | IPC-2581
DATA Pulse: Simplify Your ECAD Data Release Process While Ensuring Process Control

By Auromala | 22 Jan 2020

Do you dread your ECAD to PLM publishing process? If yes, worry not. We have a solution.

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System Capture | allegro edm | PCB design | Pulse | PLM
BoardSurfers: DFF - Three Steps to Perfect Mask Defined Padstacks in Your PCB

By mrigashira | 14 Jan 2020

We will of course not venture into the finer points of the debate about mask-defined pins (SMD) and metal-defined pins (NSMD) but assume that for whatever reasons, we have mask-defined pins in our design and we want our design to be to be fabricated correctly and as....

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BoardSurfers: PCB Electronics—Six Tasks to Prepare Board for Manufacturing

By mrigashira | 7 Jan 2020

You have placed components and routed the board. You are finally ready to send the design to a fabrication house to be manufactured. But wait, you have to perform a few tasks ...

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The Year That Was: PCB Design Blogs in 2019

By Monika | 31 Dec 2019

The first series BoardSurfers is about PCB designing. It provides information on concepts, techniques, and processes that are related to Cadence PCB Design solutions with a new post published ...

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Library and design data management | PCB Editor | 17.4-2019 | PCB design
BoardSurfers: Four Reasons to Use Allegro ECAD-MCAD Library Creator

By Sanjiv Bhatia | 17 Dec 2019

The Cadence Allegro ECAD-MCAD Library Creator helps you easily synchronize ECAD and MCAD libraries which in turn improves the quality and accuracy ....

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Library Creator | 17.4-2019 | ECAD-MCAD Library Creator | PCB design
DATA Pulse: Speed up ECAD Part Search in Allegro System Capture

By Auromala | 16 Dec 2019

Do you often search for parts when creating Allegro System Capture projects? Yes. Do you work with large ECAD libraries? Yes. Do you work with Allegro EDM Library Manager? No. Then this post is for you.

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Cadence Design Systems | Library and design data management | PCB design | Allegro System Capture | Part Search
Quickly View Schematic Designs, Boards, and IC Packages for Free Using Cadence PCB Design Viewers 2019

By AllegroReleaseTeam | 11 Dec 2019

Quickly view a schematic, layout, or IC package without installing the complete OrCAD product suite. Get free, read-only access to design data created in OrCAD Capture, PCB Editor, orAllegro Package Designer+ (APD+). Perhaps you hav...

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OrCAD Capture | APD | PCB Editor | PCB design and layout | 17.4-2019
Search Faster and Smarter in Release 17.4-2019

By Rachna2018 | 3 Dec 2019

Allegro and OrCAD 17.4-2019 products come with the latest version of CDNSHelp. In this post, I will quickly share the changes made in this release, that will make things much simpler and before you realize it, your content searches will give you better results, and you get more done. Or, know more about what ...

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17.4 | Search | Cadence Help | 17.4-2019 | OrCAD | Allegro
Experience the Power of OrCAD with Its Trial Version

By AllegroReleaseTeam | 28 Nov 2019

OrCAD Trial 2019 is out. Download and use the full power of the latest release of OrCAD Capture CIS, PSpice, PCB Editor, OrCAD Sigrity ERC, and more, for up to 30 days. Designed to accelerate your productivity, this is a ...

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17.4 | Capture CIS | TRIAL | PSPICE | PCB Editor | OrCAD
BoardSurfers: Installing on Windows is as Easy as Updating Apps on your Smart Phone

By Sanjiv Bhatia | 26 Nov 2019

Did you know that you can download and install available Cadence Allegro and OrCAD product releases and updates on Windows in an easy way using Cadence Download Manager? Yes, no more visiting the downloads.cadence.com site to check for...

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17.4 | install | 17.4-2019 | Download Manager | OrCAD | Allegro
BoardSurfers: Power of Information – Quickly Getting Started with Allegro and OrCAD Release 17.4-2019

By Jasmine | 19 Nov 2019

The Allegro and OrCAD 7.4 release is now available for download and installation. Many of you must have already started using it and many more of you must be planning to install it in the coming days or weeks. Do you have all it needs to use the programs?

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COS | System Capture | IC Packaging | Cadence Online Support | PSPICE | PCB Editor | Design Entry HDL | EDM | 17.4-2019
BoardSurfers: What's Happening Around 17.4-2019?

By mrigashira | 15 Nov 2019

Allegro and OrCAD 17.4-2019 was released on October 18 and we have since then been getting a lot of queries about a lot of things. How do I install the products? What are the system requirements? What has changed? What's there in it for me? Is there ...

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17.4 | PCB Editor | SKILL
What's in a Name? From Allegro EDM to Pulse in 17.4-2019

By Auromala | 11 Nov 2019

Allegro EDM (Engineering Data Management) 17.4-2019 is out! So, what's in it for you?

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allegro edm | what's new | 17.4-2019 | PCB design | Pulse
Cadence OrCAD and Allegro 17.4-2019 is Now Available

By AllegroReleaseTeam | 4 Nov 2019

Here is a sleeker and more modern version of the OrCAD and Allegro release, with enhanced usability and a slew of new productivity-enhancing features. With the 17.4-2019 release, you get more intuitive and easy-to-use flows that enable optimized schematic-to-board-to-...

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Library Creator | System Capture | 17.4 | IC Packaging | OrCAD Capture | APD | PSPICE | PCB Editor | Constraint Manager | Topology Explorer
BoardSurfers: Going Beyond Just Correct - Improving and Optimizing Design and Routing

By mrigashira | 28 Oct 2019

PCB layout editors provide many checks in the form of constraints and rules to ensure your design is correct. You even have the DFM rules to prevent fabrication or manufacturing issues. Then you have automatic routing to ensure an errorless board with the right connections and traces. But are you satisfied only with 'just a correct' board? Or, do you want to optimize it further? And what about 'quality'?

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DATA Pulse: Collaborate and Combine Forces – Allegro EDM Team Design

By Auromala | 14 Oct 2019

Working in an ECAD design team? Want to control access to certain design elements? Would notifications of design changes by other team members be helpful? If yes…

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allegro edm | Team design | PCB design
BoardSurfers: PCB Electronics - Three Routing Challenges and Their Solutions

By mrigashira | 27 Sep 2019

Routing is the core of a PCB. And, it's not an easy task. There are many challenges but, thankfully, there are solutions too. Here we list three common challenges and explain how to solve them.

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PCB Layout and routing | PCB Editor
BoardSurfers: PCB Electronics - Defining and Applying Physical and Spacing Constraints

By mrigashira | 17 Sep 2019

If you get frequent calls from your fab houses or your customers regarding your product, or if your schematic, layout, and packaging engineers spend a lot of time exchanging notes about their requirements not being met, resulting in back and forth of designs, or if you believe, like most of us do, that a product should do what it was designed to do, constraints are your friends.

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APD | PCB Editor | Constraint Manager
DATA Pulse: Track Your Components—Efficient Library and Design Data Management

By Auromala | 15 Sep 2019

Ever noticed how some objects always mysteriously disappear? It's like they have their own legs. Or maybe, secretly, they thirst for adventure and go wandering off. Socks for example. Why does one twin always disappear after a round in the washing machine? After a few months, you just have a sad pile of lonely, orphaned socks in a variety of colors. Pens are equally guilty. They're always disappearing. Pen caps are even...

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lifecycle | RAK | Allegro
BoardSurfers: PCB Electronics - Electrical Constraints

By mrigashira | 10 Sep 2019

Whether it's NASA's space missions or a school camping trip; building a cutting-edge, reusable rocket system or baking a simple lemon tart - planning is a must to avoid disasters, or at least to get a predictable output. So is the case with PCBs. You want to plan ahead to avoid design mistakes that can cost you money and time. And that's where constraints come handy.

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Constraint Manager | Allegro Package Designer | Allegro PCB Editor | SiP Layout
BoardSurfers: PCB Electronics - Component Placement - Get Set and Go!

By mrigashira | 3 Sep 2019

How do you place components on a PCB design? Manually? Or quickly using automation? Is there a way to rotate or mirror components while placing them? Is there a way to determine the congested areas or the flow within blocks even while placing components? How do you ensure the placed components are aligned? How o you verify all is well with the board? Read on for the answers.

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