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I designed the PCB in the Altium Designer 18. I imported this PCB in Cadence Allegro17.2-2016 for Simulation. I applied the DC Net & assign the values to discrete components. Then i save the project in *.brd file. For sigrtity simulation the conversion from .brd to .spd format is required. But i didn't find the CAD Translator for spdlinks. Please tell me how can i convert the .brd file into .spd for simulation.

I also attached this document that i searched on one of the Internet blog, but again its didn't help me.I didn't find the extracta.exe file. I attached this document for the reference.

Please help me out in this regard.

6014.Allegro to Sigrity Conversion.pdf

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oldmouldy over 6 years ago

The PDF looks to be applicable to an old, possibly no longer current Sigrity version so, which Sigrity version are you running? As you would expect, "modern" versions of Sigrity have the ability to "simply load" the BRD file as a Layout and convert the data (as may be required).
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oldmouldy over 6 years ago

The PDF looks to be applicable to an old, possibly no longer current Sigrity version so, which Sigrity version are you running? As you would expect, "modern" versions of Sigrity have the ability to "simply load" the BRD file as a Layout and convert the data (as may be required).
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Mohsin Hayat over 6 years ago in reply to oldmouldy

I am using the same 17.2-2016 version. That is installed automatically with the Cadence software. Is there any other Sigrity tool to be installed?

I want Cadence System SI Tool as in the attached picture. How can i go there?
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DavidJHutchins over 6 years ago in reply to Mohsin Hayat

oldmouldy is correct, below is from the 16.6 documentation:

Opening Allegro Layout Files in Allegro Sigrity Tools

You can also open the Allegro layout files (.brd, .mcm, and .sip) directly from the Allegro Sigrity tools.

1.
Choose File - Open.

2.
In the Open dialog, browse to the location which stores the Allegro layout files.

3.
Select the file type as .brd, .mcm, or .sip.
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Mohsin Hayat over 6 years ago in reply to DavidJHutchins

But i want to convert the .brd file into .spd for the System SI Simulation.
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johnthanchau over 6 years ago in reply to Mohsin Hayat

how is it going? i came across the same problem today.

when trying to use dsn2spd, open orcad 16.6 dsn file, it says it is not an acceptable dsn file by this translator.

this is sigrity 16.6 though.
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geonite over 4 years ago in reply to johnthanchau

Hi,

I am facing this error while opening SPDLinks.exe executable.
I want to convert a .brd file to .spd file for SI analysis, but the executable fails to open.

The following error message appears when I try to open.

"The code execution cannot proceed because cdsCommon64.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem"

Please provide solution to this. If there is any other method

Thank you
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