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

22 Jul 2016 • 3 minute read

Cadence Online Support Features

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Product Manuals
You can access product manuals for all the supported releases. Have you checked out Sigrity 2016 documents yet? If not, click here …

A wide variety of informative content has been published on COS. Check it out.

Application Notes

Allegro Sigrity	Allegro PCB Editor	Allegro Design Entry CIS/ OrCAD Capture
How is the effective radius of a decoupling capacitor calculated in Allegro Sigrity PI? When placing decoupling capacitors (decap) in Allegro Sigrity PI base, a circle representing the effective radius of the capacitor is displayed on the canvas. Wonder how it is calculated? See this Application Note.	Allegro PCB Editor – Tips and Tricks This document provides tips and tricks to use Allegro PCB Editor and is updated with the latest tips.	Embedded components in Capture CIS to Allegro PCB Editor design flow This Application Note explains how to specify which components need to be embedded in the Allegro PCB Editor by adding properties to the components in the Allegro Design Entry CIS schematic.
Via Stub Analysis for High Speed Design This Application Note demonstrates how via stubs impact insertion loss of a channel and how the loss can be minimized using the backdrill process in the Sigrity tools.	Using TreeView in GUI with Allegro SKILL Looking for input from the users of different kinds of widgets in Allegro SKILL? Check this document to see how to display the hierarchical information using TreeView.
	Differential Pairs and Topology Extraction This Application Note shows different ways of using and extracting differential pairs from a pre-layout or post-layout environment.
	Setting up 3D STEP models in Allegro PCB Editor This Application Note outlines the processes and procedures to set up and use 3D STEP models inside Allegro PCB Editor.

Installation and Licensing

Installation and Configuration of Cadence License Manager on Windows System ( Video )

The video demonstrates the download, installation, and configuration of Cadence License Manager.

Virtual Machine Licensing : Frequently Asked Questions

Have questions related to Virtual Machine Licensing?

This document explains installation and configuration of Cadence License Manager on Windows system.

Many relevant articles are posted in the Troubleshooting Information section.

Training Bytes are self-learning videos about the tools. New videos are published for:

Allegro Design Entry HDL

Sigrity Power and Signal Integrity

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~Jasmine