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DesignCon 2025 Highlights and Papers on Demand

The Cadence MSA team had a GREAT DesignCon highlighting how Cadence can help you…

MSATeam
• 2 min read
featured , DesignCon , Advanced IC packaging , PCB design

Designing High-Performance Sensor Packages to Ensure Optimized Performance

In an era where technology and connectivity reign supreme, electronic, and mechanical…

Vinod Khera
• 4 min read
featured , IC Packaging , Allegro X Design Platform , EDA , MCAD-ECAD

Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing IBIS-AMI Optimization in High-Speed Design

The complexity of IBIS-AMI models used in simulating serial links has increased to…

MSATeam
• 1 min read
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Quickly View Schematic Designs, Boards, and IC Packages for Free Using Cadence PCB…

Do you want to quickly view a schematic, layout, or IC package without installing…

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OrCAD Capture , APD , PCB Editor , Allegro Package Designer , PCB design and layout , 17.4-2019

IC Packagers: Plating Bars versus Edge Connections

I think every traditional package designer understands what a plating bar is and…

• 6 min read
Allegro Package Designer , 17.4-2019 , Allegro

BoardSurfers: Everything You Need to Know About Fixed Fillets/Teardrops

First, teardrops and fillets are interchangeable words in PCB design, and both terms…

• 4 min read
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IC Packagers: Staggering Shape Outlines

Having coincident edges shared across multiple layers is frequently not a desirable…

• 4 min read
IC Packaging , PCB Editor , Allegro Package Designer , 17.4-2019 , Allegro

BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Adding and Re-Ordering Mask Layers

One idea that completely revolutionized the concept of PCB making is adding layers…

• 3 min read
17.4 , 17.4-2019 , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor

IC Packagers: Renaming Nets in a Layout

As the component count increases in package/interposer designs, many more of you…

• 4 min read
17.4 , IC Packaging , Allegro Package Designer , 17.4-2019

Streamline Your PCB Design Flow with In-Design and Post-Route Power Integrity An…

Designing an optimized power supply and a PCB without board-level SI/PI problems…

• 8 min read
PCB , Allegro PCB Design Editor , Power Integrity Analysis , Sigrity Aurora , in-design , PowerTree , DC analysis , IR drop , PowerDC

BoardSurfers: 17.4-2019 HotFix 007 for ECAD-MCAD Library Creator Is Now Availabl…

The Library Creator 17.4-2019 HotFix 007 update is now available. This time, the…

• 1 min read
Library Creator , 17.4-2020 , 17.4-QIR1 , 17.4-2019 , ECAD-MCAD Library Creator , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , Allegro

IC Packagers: Automating Your LVS Text Label Generation

If you are using Allegro Package Designer Plus with the Silicon Layout option to…

• 4 min read
17.4 , IC Packaging , Allegro Package Designer , 17.4-2019

IC Packagers: Accelerate Complex Degassing with 17.4

Degassing, other times called outgassing, is a common operation in IC package and…

• 6 min read
IC Packaging , Allegro Package Designer

BoardSurfers: Good News for Japanese Readers

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

• 1 min read
PCB , 17.4 , OrCAD Capture , APD , PSPICE , Allegro PCB Editor

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

Return path issues are common and difficult to diagnose in complex printed circuit…

• 2 min read
PCB SI , PCB design , Allegro

IC Packagers: How to Fix Padstacks that Aren’t Showing All Their Layers

We talked a few months ago regarding why flip-chip padstacks are single layer pads…

• 2 min read
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IC Packagers: Navigating Your Visible Design

Last week we introduced you to the new dark theme. But, we listen to your suggestions…

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BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Creating High-Speed Via Structures

High-speed via structures combine vias, connect lines (clines) or traces, static…

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

The HotFix 007 (QIR 1, indicated as 2020 in the application splash screens) update…

• 4 min read
OrCAD Capture , EDM , Allegro Package Designer , ECAD-MCAD Library Creator , Allegro System Capture , Allegro PCB Editor

IC Packagers: Welcome to the Dark Side

The 7th ISR (HotFix 007 or QIR1) for the 17.4 release is available for download now…

• 4 min read
Allegro Package Designer , Allegro PCB Editor

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

Design rule checks are essential to ensure the functionality, reliability, and manufacturing…

• 5 min read
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IC Packagers: Count Your Fingers (Without Using Your Toes)

Let’s talk about wire bonding today! More specifically, the unique labels assigned…

• 4 min read
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BoardSurfers: Allegro In-Design Coupling Analysis: Crosstalk Mitigation without …

Just as social distancing minimizes human contact to prevent the spread of disease…

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PCB SI , PCB design , Allegro

IC Packagers: Keep Fan-Out Routing Aligned During ECOs

When a change comes in from your IC design partner, it can be met with trepidation…

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BoardSurfers: Footprint Creation Using a STEP Model in Library Creator

Read how you can easily create accurate footprints from a vendor-provided STEP Model…

• 3 min read
Library Creator , PCB Editor , 17.4-2019 , ECAD-MCAD Library Creator , PCB design , Allegro

IC Packagers: Determining Minimum Spacing Values in a Design

I don’t remember the first time I was asked this question. At its core, the question…

• 4 min read
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BoardSurfers: Three Steps to Using Embedded Components

If you think embedding components in a PCB just reduces product size, well that's…

• 4 min read
embedded components , Allegro Package Designer , Allegro PCB Editor

New PCIe SI Challenges Conquered Using Clarity 3D Field Solver for PCB

Figure 1: High-performance PCIe-based graphics card There is a trend in the data…

• 10 min read
Serial link analysis , SI , bit-error-rate , PCIe , Signal Integrity , serial link , SerDes , Channel simulation , Sigrity , Clarity 3D Solver , PCI-SIG , clarity

IC Packagers: The Choice Between Static and Dynamic Shapes

That title might be a touch misleading. We’re not here to talk about why to convert…

• 5 min read
Allegro Package Designer , Allegro PCB Editor

Challenges of On-Chip Thermal Analysis in Electronic System Designs

In the beginning of our universe, enormous amount of heat or energy was generated…

• 4 min read
Celsius Thermal Solver , IC Package , system analysis , EE Thermal , temperature , Power Integrity , 3D analysis , Voltus , Heat transfer , electrical-thermal co-simulation , thermal , heterogenous integration

BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Placing Parts Manually Using Design for Assembly…

So, what if you can figure out all that can go wrong when your product is being assembled…

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