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Altium Designer 16 to Allegro Design Entry CIS

I'm trying to convert an Altium Designer 16 schematic to Allegro Design Entry CIS so I can do the PCB layout in Allegro.

I spent most of the day yesterday on the phone with tech support at EMA with no luck.

We saved all Altium schematic sheets to ASCII file then used the "import Altium schematic" from CIS.

The Altium schematic is a hierarchical schematic and it seems the CIS importer is choking on some of the "harness" entities on he schematic.

We removed some of the "harness" entities and ultimately got the translator to create a dsn file, but when it was opened, it was obviously corrupted.

Has anyone successfully imported an Altium schematic into CIS using the Altium importer?

Any help would be appreciated.

luvishis over 9 years ago

Elgris Technologies provides the tool and the services to translate schematics from Altium to OrCAD Capture and to ConceptHDL for many years. Harnesses are processed as well. Translating Harnesses from Altium to Cadence platform can get pretty complicated but Elgris provides 100% netlist guarantee on translated OrCAD designs.
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steve over 9 years ago

Yes I did this video:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ_KpxGjYUw, but sounds like you've followed these steps already so get EMA to file this with Cadence support if they haven't done so already.
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PhilH over 9 years ago

Steve, yes, We did follow that PDF document for translation. Did you translate an Altium Designer 16 schematic or a previous version of Altium?
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steve over 9 years ago

It's more than likely an earlier version but these are just reference designs that I downloaded from the Altium Website. I don't have exact versions I'm afraid
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PhilH over 9 years ago

More than likely Altium has changed something in v16 that the translator doesn't like. I will follow up with EMA tech support and see if they are planning on filing an enhancement request. Thanks
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