What's Good About the Latest in DEHDL? The 16.6-2015 Release Has Several New Enhancements!

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 modes--the standard mode and the Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) mode. The ADW mode allows you access to a larger, and accessible-from-anywhere dataset, of components.

The ADW mode (also referred to as the online mode in the documentation), enables faster, free-text searches, provides life cycle functionality, preferred parts lists, alternate manufacture lists, and provides a shopping cart that allows you to search for parts that are selected or added to a design.

For more information, refer to the Using Component Browser section in Allegro Design Entry HDL User Guide.

Tag-based ECSet Mapping
User-defined tags in ECSets can be added to pins or components in a design prior to extracting a topology in SigXplorer. These tags can be used to schedule a topology and are used when the topology is applied back to the design.

ECSet mapping tags are also supported in the front-to-back flow between Design Entry HDL and PCB Editor.

For more information, refer to the Working with ECSet Tags section in Allegro Design Entry HDL - Constraint Manager User Guide.


Please share your experience using these new features.

Jerry “GenPart” Grzenia