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BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Speed Up the Design Process in Allegro PCB Editor Using Shortcut Keys
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Dhruv Prakash
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8 Jun 2022
You can customize your Allegro® PCB Editor design environment to work around repetitive design tasks using aliases and shortcut keys. These are the shorthand of commands or keys that trigger a tool command or a sequence of commands, which would ...
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ASCENT: Training Insights: Get Rid of Design Errors in Allegro System Capture
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Supriya Srivastava
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18 May 2022
With thousands of components connected across a multi-layered board, anticipating the complexity of your layout design at the logic design stage can be quite a challenge. For example, how to ensure that the logical design you are trying to create fun...
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Design Rule Checker
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ASCENT
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Schematic
ASCENT: Reasons to Move to 17.4-2019 HotFix SPB17.40.028 of Allegro Pulse
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Auromala
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6 May 2022
HotFix SPB17.40.028 of 17.4-2019 of Allegro® Pulse is out and is available for download. This release includes various enhancements, new features, and product changes that address design challenges. Let’s look at some of the Alle...
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ASCENT
Training Insights: Bridging the Gap Between Design and Analysis with Sigrity Aurora
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Sonia Pande
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13 Apr 2022
Join Cadence Training and Principal Application Engineer Vladimir Papic for this free Technical Training Webinar. What is this Webinar About? Cadence® Sigrity Aurora is a Signal and Power Integrity (SI/PI) analysis solution tightly integrated in...
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Allegro PCB Editor
BoardSurfers: Reasons to Move to 17.4-2019 HotFix SPB17.40.028 of Allegro PCB Editor
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Monika
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8 Apr 2022
The HotFix SPB17.40.028 of 17.4-2019 of Allegro® PCB Editor has been rolled out and is now available for download . This release includes various enhancements, new features, and product changes that address design challenges and speed up the ...
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Cadence OrCAD and Allegro 17.4-2019 HotFix SPB17.40.028 is Now Available
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AllegroReleaseTeam
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31 Mar 2022
The HotFix 028 (QIR4, indicated as 2022 in the application splash screens) update for OrCAD® and Allegro® is now available at Cadence Downloads . This blog post contains important links for accessing this update and introduces some of the main...
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BoardSurfers: Specifying Layer Information for Multi-Layer Rigid and Flex Stackups
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Sanjiv Bhatia
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24 Mar 2022
To manufacture a product that performs as you intended, it is imperative that you share accurate stackup definitions with the board fabricator or manufacturer. An accurate stackup definition is critical to getting the best possible performance from ...
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BoardSurfers: Training Insights: All You Wanted to Know About User Preferences in Allegro PCB Editor
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Supriya Srivastava
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1 Mar 2022
Wouldn’t it be convenient if you could customize how to view and access your PCB design environment? You might want to lock the toolbars to prevent the accidental movement of objects or set up design libraries when creating designs. Personalizing the...
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(P)SpiceItUp: Sweeping Multiple Parameters to Enhance Performance
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mrigashira
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21 Feb 2022
Often you want to see the effect of changing multiple parameters on the performance of your design. For example, you might want to know how the gain or bandwidth of a design is affected when you vary multiple components across a range of values...
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BoardSurfers: Installation Know-How: Configuring OrCAD and Allegro Installations on Windows
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Himanshu Saxena
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15 Feb 2022
Often, you install the Cadence products with default settings and that suffices to work with the tools. However, you might encounter instances when the default settings may not be enough to serve your requirements. For example, when multiple use...
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Allegro
ASCENT: 3 Reasons to Use Live BOM for Your Bill of Materials
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Auromala
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3 Feb 2022
A product is only as good as its components, which makes selecting good components vital. So how does one select the right component? And let’s think about what 'right' means. You have to consider the availability and lead time, the pri...
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ASCENT: Training Insights: Connecting System Architecture Design and Implementation
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Rachna2018
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28 Jan 2022
Today we take a break from our regular posts on Allegro System Capture features and basics to announce a Cadence Training webinar on System-Level Design with Senior Application Engineer, Dave Palumbo. What Is this Webinar About? In the produ...
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Allegro
BoardSurfers: An Introduction to Dimensioning in Allegro PCB Editor
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Sanjiv Bhatia
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26 Jan 2022
With boards becoming more complex and lightweight at the same time, designing and manufacturing a cost-effective and reliable PCB has assumed greater significance than ever before. Inaccurate or incomplete design details can affect the fabrication of...
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(P)SpiceITUp: Using Monte Carlo to Make Sense of Randomness and Calculate Yield
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mrigashira
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11 Jan 2022
Any circuit you design uses parts that will vary depending on many factors that are not under your control. All components, such as resistors or capacitors, that you use have a tolerance. A 50Ω resistor with a precision of ± 1%, can vary between 4...
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ASCENT: Configuring Design Constraints the Easy Way
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Shilpa Gandotra
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7 Jan 2022
Constraint capture made easy with in-context editing right next to the circuitry being constrained. Read on to find the power of the Docked Constraint Manager in Allegro System Capture
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Allegro
The Year That Was: Cadence PCB Design Blogs in 2021
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Monika
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23 Dec 2021
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. By 2021, the changed working environment, transformed digitally in ways we never expected, taught us important life lessons. Despite the...
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BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Creating and Managing Copper Shapes in Allegro PCB Editor
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Monika
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20 Dec 2021
In multilayer PCB designs, copper areas have many uses and are critical to the performance of a design. As a designer, you have a fair idea of how and when to pour in copper. However, copper areas are created in the form of shapes and any change in the design, for example, moving components or adjusting routing, affe...
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(P)SpiceITUp: Using Curve-Fitting to Optimize a Design
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mrigashira
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7 Dec 2021
If you are interested in the performance of a circuit that can be best described by a waveform instead of a value, say a practical filter circuit response, curve-fitting is the choice. You can use an external specification composed of measurement data defined in an external data file ...
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PSpice Advanced Analysis
ASCENT: Managing Designs with Evolving Libraries
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Gunjan Goel
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3 Dec 2021
Components, or parts, are the basic building blocks of a PCB design. It is of utmost importance that the components present in the design, their graphics, electrical, and part definitions, match the latest and updated li...
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(P)SpiceITUp: How to Use Measurements to Optimize Your Design
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mrigashira
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23 Nov 2021
Your products must perform well in terms of their requirements. For a product to perform well, you must ensure the design parameters are tuned for the best performance possible. For example, you might need the output voltage to hover around 20V or th...
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BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Tips to Zoom and Pan Efficiently in Allegro PCB Editor
By
Taanya
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15 Nov 2021
While designing a layout within Allegro® PCB Editor, designers zoom in and out or pan in the design canvas to take a closer look at a component’s placement and connectivity. Because they frequently zoom or pan when creating or edi...
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BoardSurfers: How to Map CAD Models in 3D Canvas
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Siddharth Makkar
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12 Nov 2021
In the world of PCB design, shorter delivery deadlines have less scope of re-spin cycles. Before manufacturing the board, every designer wants to see what the manufactured board would look like. Allegro 3D Canvas , enabled within Allegro® PCB Edi...
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BoardSurfers: Exchanging Layer Stackup Data Using IPC-2581
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vignesh k
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2 Nov 2021
Sharing design intent and stackup information with your manufacturer at the beginning of the design process avoids manufacturing and assembly issues that may impact the product design, and eventually, delay the product delivery. However, without havi...
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BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Manually Placing Components in Allegro PCB Editor
By
Taanya
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26 Oct 2021
Component placement is one of the most critical aspects of PCB designing. As the number of components and layers increases, the complexities of placing components increase manifold. Allegro PCB Editor, with its streamlined and efficient component placement...
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ASCENT: Workflows in Allegro System Capture
By
Auromala
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22 Oct 2021
Tight deadlines, multiple people working on a design, inevitable errors…there are so many things that can affect the design and development of a PCB. Ensuring a smooth flow of work is easy enough if you are just one designer or a small team. A...
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