What's Good About The SPB16.2 Release? WOW - Download It now!

The SPB16.2 release is now available (actually, it was available on 10/31/08 from the Cadence software downloads site at - http://downloads.cadence.com/).

Over the next several weeks, I'll be writing about key new features available in this SPB16.2 release. I'd like to hear which features that you've been waiting to see are the most important and useful for your design requirements and which features you'd like us to tune in future releases.

Here are a few highlights:
Allegro PCB Editor HDI capabilities
Allegro PCB Editor Differential Pair Region Support for Diff Pair Line/Gap and pin swapping
Allegro PCB Editor dynamic fillets
Allegro PCB Editor Placement Application Mode
Allegro PCB Editor Placement Replication
Allegro PCB Editor Component Alignment
Allegro PCB Editor Net Element-based Coloring
Allegro PCB Editor Physically Driven Diff Pairs
Allegro PCB Editor Layer Based Design Partitioning
Allegro PCB Editor editing controls - snap features, layer controls, user preferences, etc.
many many more ...

Allegro Package Design & System In Package Advanced Plating Bar Check     
Allegro Package Design & System In Package Assembly Design Rule Check    
Allegro Package Design & System In Package Cavity Support
Allegro Package Design & System In Package Design Integrity Check  
Allegro Package Design & System In Package Design Partition                
Allegro Package Design & System In Package DXF_R14_Export          
Allegro Package Design & System In Package Metal Usage Report
Allegro Package Design & System In Package Wirebond Non-wired Finger, Routing Stubs, Tack Point Enhancements
many many more ...

Allegro Design Entry Cross References as links on the schematic pages
Allegro Design Entry Automatic Table of Contents (TOC) generator
Allegro Design Entry Constraint Manager Support for Physical and Spacing Constraints
Allegro Design Entry improved windows look and feel usability improvements
many more ...

Allegro System Architect (ASA/SCM) Differential Pair Swap
Allegro System Architect (ASA/SCM)  TCL Interface

Allegro Design Entry CIS Usability Enhancement / User Interface Updates
Allegro Design Entry CIS Better Integration with PCB Editor
Allegro Design Entry CIS Improved FPGA Functionality
Allegro Design Entry CIS New Annotation Type Option
Allegro Design Entry CIS Netlist Enhancements
Allegro Design Entry CIS CIS RDBMS Support
Allegro Design Entry CIS CIS Configuration File in XML Format
more details on these provided in future Blog posts ...

Allegro AMS Simulator New MOSFET device Model BSIM4 Support in PSpice
Allegro AMS Simulator Checkpoint Restart for Digital and Mixed Circuits
Allegro AMS Simulator New Supported Devices in Smoke Analysis
Allegro AMS Simulator Support for Split Part as a single component
Allegro AMS Simulator User Interface Updates

Allegro PCB SI EMS2D Full Wave Field Solver
Allegro PCB SI Algorithmic Based Interconnect Modeling
Allegro PCB SI Eye Mask Support in SigWave
Allegro PCB SI Opening Foreign Drawings
Allegro PCB SI Package Power Integrity

I'm looking forward to your feedback!

Jerry GenPart