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Package to Package Spacing Errors How to Fix

Neil mustafa
Neil mustafa over 2 years ago

Hello all,

I am facing an issue that I haven't figured out yet how to solve and would love to get some tips on that. So, after routing my Board , I had 0 errors. But due to thermal considerations , I poured copper on all 4 layers on my board and assigned them all to a dummy net in order to help with thermal management. What I did then , was copy a Plated through hole / Via and placed it all over the board, I do not know if that was the ideal way to do it but that's the only way I know how to do it. Now, I got a ton of Package to Package spacing errors that I do not know how to get rid of. I understand that I can waive these errors and there's probably no consequences in doing that, But , where I work, they don't like that and I personally would rather learn how to prevent my Allegro 17.2 from flagging these , especially that I know that it is manufacturable. I have a feeling this can be done through the constraint manager but after playing with it for hours , I don't know what I am doing anymore and would love to get as detailed of tips as possible.
Here is a screenshot below to help visualize the problem:

Here are the errors after placing those Vias / Plated Through Holes (They're meant to be vias , but somehow only when I have the shapes filter selected is when Cadence detects them).
There were 0 errors before , so all the errors are package to package spacing errors that showed up afterwards.




Thank you all Very much.

Best regards.

Neil Mustafa.

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  • mahimag
    0 mahimag over 2 years ago

    Hi Neil, You can turn off the Package to package Spacing DRC from Setup > Constraints > Modes > Design for Assembly.  Also, in this situation the PCB Editor offers the feature of Theiving so do not have to do manual steps as you mentioned for thermal considerations.

    Thieving or Copper Thieving is a process of adding circular/square copper areas to large blank spaces on a layer to even out the copper distribution. The copper that is added is not connected to any nets on the board and should not affect the functionality. In PCb Editor, Manufacture > Theiving menu can be used.

    You can read more about it from the below link:

    https://community.cadence.com/cadence_technology_forums/pcb-design/f/pcb-editor-skill/51775/thieving

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