Do you often search for parts when creating Allegro System Capture projects? Yes. Do you work with large ECAD libraries? Yes. Do you work with Allegro EDM Library Manager? No.
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DATA Pulse: Speed up ECAD Part Search in Allegro System Capture
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BoardSurfers: Four Reasons to use Allegro ECAD-MCAD Library Creator
The Cadence Allegro ECAD-MCAD Library Creator helps you easily synchronize ECAD and MCAD libraries which in turn improves the quality and accuracy ....(read more)![]()
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DATA Pulse: Track Your Components—Efficient Library and Design Data Management
Ever noticed how some objects always mysteriously disappear? It's like they have their own legs. Or maybe, secretly, they thirst for adventure and go wandering off. Socks for example. Why does one twin always disappear after a round in the washing machine? After a few months, you just have a sad pile of lonely, orphaned socks in a variety of colors. Pens are equally guilty. They're always disappearing. Pen caps are even worse. Car keys. Passports.
And can there be something worse than not finding something? Yes. Imagine this: you've planned a vacation abroad, booked your plane tickets, and you're ready to go. Then, a week before you leave, you look for your passport. A frantic hunt ensues. Then you find it, but it will expire within six months of your travel date. Arghh.
ECAD engineers are all too familiar with that feeling of fruitless searches. Then they find the component they're looking for but what do you know? It's approaching its end of life. Without the right tools, mismanagement of ECAD data is easy. Imagine a scenario where you released a product but some error forces you to revise your design. Think of all the rework.
Instead, what if you had an efficient library and design data management lifecycle process that could do the following:
- Ensure a common parts repository, from which parts can be distributed across geographical regions
- Ensure data consistency
- Allow the sharing of ECAD libraries across multiple sites
- Provide dynamic part-related information, such as the following, from PLM systems in your existing setup:
- Compliance (RoHS, WEEE, ELV)
- Part datasheets
- Cost
- Lifecycle (EOL, approaching EOL)
- Provide searchable property support with well-classified objects
- Provide for the definition of Alternate Manufacturer Parts Lists
Allegro EDM's library management solution helps you streamline your ECAD library data management process, thus helping you to complete design projects on time, within budget, and reducing the possibility for errors.
So, why wait? Learn how to efficiently manage your ECAD data libraries using the Allegro Library Manager 17.2 Rapid Adoption Kit (RAK). The RAK demonstrates basic operations in the library development flow.
RAKs are easily available by going to support.cadence.com and selecting Resources — Rapid Adoption Kits. So, strap on headphones, tune out all distractions, and get started.
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BoardSurfers: PCB Electronics - Defining and Applying Physical and Spacing Constraints
If you get frequent calls from your fab houses or your customers regarding your product, or if your schematic, layout, and packaging engineers spend a lot of time exchanging notes about their requirements not being met, resulting in back and forth of designs, or if you believe, like most of us do, that a product should do what it was designed to do, constraints are your friends. (read more)![]()
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BoardSurfers: PCB Electronics - Three Routing Challenges and Their Solutions
Routing is the core of a PCB. And, it's not an easy task. There are many challenges but, thankfully, there are solutions too. Here we list three common challenges and explain how to solve them. (read more)![]()
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DATA Pulse: Collaborate and Combine Forces – Allegro EDM Team Design
Working in an ECAD design team? Want to control access to certain design elements? Would notifications of design changes by other team members be helpful? If yes…(read more)![]()
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BoardSurfers: Going Beyond Just Correct - Improving and Optimizing Design and Routing
PCB layout editors provide many checks in the form of constraints and rules to ensure your design is correct. You even have the DFM rules to prevent fabrication or manufacturing issues. Then you have automatic routing to ensure an errorless board with the right connections and traces. But are you satisfied only with 'just a correct' board? Or, do you want to optimize it further? And what about 'quality'? (read more)![]()
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The Year That Was: PCB Design Blogs in 2019
The first series BoardSurfers is about PCB designing. It provides information on concepts, techniques, and processes that are related to Cadence PCB Design solutions with a new post published ...(read more)![]()
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BoardSurfers: PCB Electronics—Six Tasks to Prepare Board for Manufacturing
You have placed components and routed the board. You are finally ready to send the design to a fabrication house to be manufactured. But wait, you have to perform a few tasks ...(read more)![]()
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BoardSurfers: PCB Electronics - Three Routing Challenges and Their Solutions
Routing is the core of a PCB. And, it's not an easy task. There are many challenges but, thankfully, there are solutions too. Here we list three common challenges and explain how to solve them. (read more)![]()
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DATA Pulse: Collaborate and Combine Forces – Allegro EDM Team Design
Working in an ECAD design team? Want to control access to certain design elements? Would notifications of design changes by other team members be helpful? If yes…(read more)![]()
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BoardSurfers: Going Beyond Just Correct - Improving and Optimizing Design and Routing
PCB layout editors provide many checks in the form of constraints and rules to ensure your design is correct. You even have the DFM rules to prevent fabrication or manufacturing issues. Then you have automatic routing to ensure an errorless board with the right connections and traces. But are you satisfied only with 'just a correct' board? Or, do you want to optimize it further? And what about 'quality'? (read more)![]()
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Cadence OrCAD and Allegro 17.4-2019 is Now Available
Here is a sleeker and more modern version of the OrCAD and Allegro release, with enhanced usability and a slew of new productivity-enhancing features. With the 17.4-2019 release, you get more intuitive and easy-to-use flows that enable optimized schematic-to-board-to-...(read more)![]()
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What's in a Name? From Allegro EDM to Pulse in 17.4-2019
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BoardSurfers: DFF - Three Steps to Perfect Mask Defined Padstacks in Your PCB
We will of course not venture into the finer points of the debate about mask-defined pins (SMD) and metal-defined pins (NSMD) but assume that for whatever reasons, we have mask-defined pins in our design and we want our design to be to be fabricated correctly and as....(read more)![]()
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DATA Pulse: Collaborate and Combine Forces – Allegro EDM Team Design
Working in an ECAD design team? Want to control access to certain design elements? Would notifications of design changes by other team members be helpful? If yes…(read more)![]()
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BoardSurfers: Going Beyond Just Correct - Improving and Optimizing Design and Routing
PCB layout editors provide many checks in the form of constraints and rules to ensure your design is correct. You even have the DFM rules to prevent fabrication or manufacturing issues. Then you have automatic routing to ensure an errorless board with the right connections and traces. But are you satisfied only with 'just a correct' board? Or, do you want to optimize it further? And what about 'quality'? (read more)![]()
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Cadence OrCAD and Allegro 17.4-2019 is Now Available
Here is a sleeker and more modern version of the OrCAD and Allegro release, with enhanced usability and a slew of new productivity-enhancing features. With the 17.4-2019 release, you get more intuitive and easy-to-use flows that enable optimized schematic-to-board-to-...(read more)![]()
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What's in a Name? From Allegro EDM to Pulse in 17.4-2019
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BoardSurfers: What's Happening Around 17.4-2019?
Allegro and OrCAD 17.4-2019 was released on October 18 and we have since then been getting a lot of queries about a lot of things. How do I install the products? What are the system requirements? What has changed? What's there in it for me? Is there ...(read more)![]()
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