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BoardSurfers: Good News for Japanese Readers

By Dishika Majumdar | 30 Jun 2020

In this blog, I’m going to share some great news for our Japanese readers. Let's find out what it is…

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BoardSurfers: Allegro In-Design Return Path Analysis: Find and Visualize Return Path Issues

By Shirin Farrahi | 26 Jun 2020

Return path issues are common and difficult to diagnose in complex printed circuit board designs. In the worst case, a signal could have no DC return path, and your circuit will be open at the lowest frequencies. In other cases, a poor return path ca...

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PCB SI | PCB design | Allegro
BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Creating High-Speed Via Structures

By Shreyansh | 16 Jun 2020

High-speed via structures combine vias, connect lines (clines) or traces, static shapes without voids, and route keep-outs. High-speed via structures comprise of differential pairs with return path vias and route keep-outs for custom voiding.

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Cadence OrCAD and Allegro 17.4-2019 HotFix 007 Is Now Available

By AllegroReleaseTeam | 11 Jun 2020

The HotFix 007 (QIR 1, indicated as 2020 in the application splash screens) update for OrCAD and Allegro is now available at Cadence Downloads. This release includes many improved product features and new enhancements, mostly resulting from...

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BoardSurfers: DRC Browser – A One-Stop Solution for DRC Management

By Monika | 3 Jun 2020

Design rule checks are essential to ensure the functionality, reliability, and manufacturing yield for a design. You run DRCs several times during the design cycle to validate the design. If I say auditing design rules is an intense and time-c...

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BoardSurfers: Allegro In-Design Coupling Analysis: Crosstalk Mitigation without Models

By Shirin Farrahi | 26 May 2020

Just as social distancing minimizes human contact to prevent the spread of disease, PCB spacing constraints minimize coupling between traces to prevent crosstalk problems for drivers and receivers. In cases where a safe distance cannot be maintained,...

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PCB SI | PCB design | Allegro
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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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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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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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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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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