ASCENT: Reasons to Move to 17.4-2019 HotFix SPB17.40.028 of Allegro Pulse

HotFix SPB17.40.028 of 17.4-2019 of Allegro^® Pulse is out and is available for download. This release includes various enhancements, new features, and product changes that address design challenges. Let’s look at some of the Allegro Pulse productivity improvements in this release.

Share Files with Other Designers in Pulse-Managed Allegro System Capture Projects

As designers working together on a Pulse-managed Allegro^® System Capture design, do you ever wish that you could share a checklist or design review notes with other designers? Yes? Well, you can, now, in 17.4-2019 HotFix 028. The Pulse admin first needs to add the Attachments widget to the Create New Project dialog box. Once that’s done, you can attach any file to your design.

Specify Project Location on Disk

When you join an Allegro System Capture project, a copy of the design is downloaded to a default location on the hard disk. Now, you can specify a different disk location to work on designs (for example, D:\my_projects) using the CDS_PULSE_DESIGN_LOCATION environment variable. You can also determine whether you are prompted to select a location each time you join a project using the CDS_PULSE_BROWSE_DESIGN_LOCATION environment variable.

Project Name for Local Working Design Directory

You no longer have to recall a long series of digits as a project name. Now, the copy of a joined project is downloaded to your hard disk with the design project name as is, which makes for easy identification.

Control Which Projects You Want to View in the Project List

If you have a long list of projects in Allegro System Capture or in the Web Dashboard, you can now clean the list up by removing the projects that you no longer want to see in the project list. Want a removed project back in the list? Restore it with a right-click. Forgotten which projects you removed but don’t really want to restore them back? Simple. Use the Show Removed option, in Allegro System Capture, Allegro^® PCB Editor, Allegro^® Package Designer Plus, or the project dashboard in a web browser to view the removed projects.

Share Allegro System Capture Projects from Web Dashboard

Want to share a project with a project team member but don’t want to open a design in Allegro System Capture right now? No problem. As a designer, you can now share projects with other team members using Pulse Web Dashboard.

If you are the owner of the design, you can also create or modify the design team by using Web Dashboard. View the list of users with whom the project is shared from the Shared With list and modify the list as needed.

If a project is reallocated to another designer, the administrator can share the design with the new designer using Web Dashboard.

Support Legacy Custom Variables with Pulse Metadata

If you used page borders that were populated by CUSTOMVAR entries in Allegro System Capture or Allegro^® Design Entry HDL, administrators can now use a new data binding option to explicitly define a custom data binding value to match the CUSTOMVAR variable used in schematic documentation elements. Pulse data automatically populates page borders to match the auto-generated data binding value.

It Keeps Getting Easier for Pulse Server Administrators

The Pulse infrastructure for Pulse admins now includes new features and functions to manage the Pulse server and clients more efficiently:

• The Health API indicates the status of various services to help improve the monitoring of the data available to the third-party application monitoring tools.

• Service monitoring and health notifications: The Pulse server auto-recovers when it is not responsive or in case of memory errors.
• Email notifications are sent to administrators for critical health events. For example, you’re notified, by email, about sustained high-CPU usage or a failure during content backup because the system is out of disk space on the backup media.
• Critical events are logged and are visible in Web Dashboard through the Pulse Event Viewer (Oculus). You don’t need to open Allegro System Capture to view these details
• Reach out to Cadence Customer Support with precise data to diagnose and resolve issues. Generate test cases for the Pulse Service Manager server data from the Pulse Service Manager web page

• For better performance, multiple unmanaged libraries can now be indexed together. This secured and indexed library data can be used across divisions and sites.

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Defining and Referencing the Board Source for Publishing to Manufacturing

Using the Design Sources field, administrators can specify the path to the board file to be used when data is published to the PLM system. The board file specified in this path is used to generate derived content, such as board summary, Gerber files, and so on.

Enovia 3DEXPERIENCE Support

The Publish for Manufacturing utility now supports 3DEXPERIENCE from Dassault Systèmes as a PLM connector. You can directly search for the assembly and layout numbers that are available in 3DEXPERIENCE.

What’s Next

In the coming weeks, we will describe some of these features and enhancements in more detail. For details, refer to the knowledge base on the Cadence Online Support site.

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About ASCENT

This ASCENT series is for the Allegro System Capture product suite that includes applications and features, such as Allegro Pulse, Unified Search, Part Manager, Constraints Manager, Live BOM, Team Design, and System Reliability, to name a few.

In this series of posts, we discover what Allegro System Capture is and how you can use it for creating parts, libraries, and designs, reusing established IP, all the way to creating layout files, while managing design costs, time to market, standards compliance, and providing access to non-EDA support functions.

So, whether you are a single designer wearing multiple hats or a large enterprise, Allegro System Capture has something for you. Stay tuned as we share tips and tricks to smooth your ascent!