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BoardSurfers: Footprint Creation Using a STEP Model in Library Creator

By Sanjiv Bhatia | 21 May 2020

Read how you can easily create accurate footprints from a vendor-provided STEP Model using Allegro ECAD-MCAD Library Creator.

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Library Creator | PCB Editor | 17.4-2019 | ECAD-MCAD Library Creator | PCB design | Allegro
BoardSurfers: Three Steps to Using Embedded Components

By mrigashira | 15 May 2020

If you think embedding components in a PCB just reduces product size, well that's true but that's only half the truth. Embedding components also increases performance and reduces transmission loss. So it's about miniaturization and performance with e...

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embedded components | Allegro Package Designer | Allegro PCB Editor
BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Placing Parts Manually Using Design for Assembly (DFA) Rules

By Shreyansh | 8 May 2020

So, what if you can figure out all that can go wrong when your product is being assembled early on? Not guess but know and correct at an early stage – not wait for the fabricator or manufacturer to send you a long report of what needs to change. That’s why Design for Assembly (DFA) rules

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BoardSurfers: Allegro In-Design Impedance Analysis: Screen your Routed Design Quickly

By Shirin Farrahi | 28 Apr 2020

Have you ever manufactured a printed circuit board (PCB) without analyzing all the routed signal traces? Most designers will say “yes, all the time.” Trace widths and spacing are set by constraints, and many designers simply don’t h...

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PCB design | Sigrity | Allegro
BoardSurfers: Training Insights - Fundamentals of PDN for Design and PCB Layout

By mrigashira | 21 Apr 2020

What is a Power Distribution Network (PDN) after all but resistance, inductance, and capacitance in the PCB and components? And, of course, it is there to deliver the right current and voltage to each component on your PCB. But is that all? Are there oth...

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power integrity | Sigrity | Allegro PCB Editor | PowerDC
BoardSurfers: Five Easy Steps to Create Footprints Using Packages in Library Creator

By Sanjiv Bhatia | 16 Apr 2020

In my previous blog , I talked about creating a footprint using an existing template in Allegro ECAD-MCAD Library Creator and explained how easily you can access an existing template and create a package from it by just clicking a button. In this blog...

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Library Creator | PCB Editor | 17.4-2019 | ECAD-MCAD Library Creator | PCB design
BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Loading SKILL Programs Automatically

By Shreyansh | 7 Apr 2020

Imagine you are on a vacation with your family, and suddenly, your phone starts buzzing. You pick it up and what are you looking at is a bunch of pending, unanswered e-mails. You start recollecting the checklist you had made before taking off only to realize that you haven’t put on the automatic replies!

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Cadence SKILL | Allegro PCB Editor | Allegro Skill
BoardSurfers: Allegro In-Design IR Drop Analysis: Essential for Optimal Power Delivery Design

By Shirin Farrahi | 1 Apr 2020

All PCB designers know the importance of proper power delivery for successful board design. Integrated circuits need the power to turn on, and ICs with marginal power delivery will not operate reliably. Since power planes can...

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PCB PI | PCB design | power
BoardSurfers: Footprints for Silicon - Two Steps to Creating PCB Footprints

By mrigashira | 27 Mar 2020

Longfellow's metaphorical footprints on the sands of time is more profound and eternal no doubt but a footprint for silicon (a form of sand isn't it?) is as important for PCB designers. So, here we will list the steps to create a fo...

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BoardSurfers: Creating Footprints Using Templates in Library Creator

By Sanjiv Bhatia | 18 Mar 2020

With ECAD-MCAD Library Creator, you can easily create footprints for your parts using thousands of ready-to-use templates that are provided with the tool.

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Library Creator | 17.4-2019 | ECAD-MCAD Library Creator | PCB design
BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Creating Custom Reports using ‘Extract’

By Shreyansh | 11 Mar 2020

You must deal with many reports in your daily life – for your health, financial accounts, credit, your child’s academic records, and the count goes on. Ever noticed that these reports contain many details, most of which you don’t wa...

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BoardSurfers: Bending the Flex Boards

By mrigashira | 4 Mar 2020

When you design a rigid-flex board, the focus is, of course, on the bend. Your design might be bend to install (stable flexion) - it will be bent only a few times while installing. Or it might be dynamic - it will be bent regularly. It's important to...

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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

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