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Teardrops and Tapers – Improving Manufacturability and Yield Automatically
Teardrops (also called fillets) are the blending area of a cline entry into a pad, while tapers are the gradual transition from one line-width to another along a path. These two core concepts appear in...
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BoardSurfers: Allegro 3D Canvas—Visualize the Board as You Design
Today’s dense and complex PCB designs require realistic 3D view to investigate the design issues way before they are ready for manufacturing. The complexity of the PCB designs is increasing...
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BoardSurfers: Dynamic Shape Voiding – Getting the Most Out of the Tool
Dynamic shapes; whether used on a negative or positive artwork layer, for power, ground, or signal; are the next most common element of a design after components and routing. The importance of using...
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BoardSurfers: Validating Your Shapes
Your design is near completion. Except that you’ve got an area of your plane shape that stubbornly refuses to fill, and you don’t know why. Understanding the rules involved and the tools available to...
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BoardSurfers: Place Replicate to Increase IP Reuse and Decrease Design Time
Once you have successfully designed and optimized an area of your substrate today, how do you leverage your tool to reuse your work across the rest of your current design – or apply it to other similar...
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BoardSurfers - Aerials and Bails: How to Hide the Design Path in Art File
Before manufacturing, PCB fabricators analyze Gerber data to verify if it is manufacturable or not. If the artwork data meets the requirement, it is processed to make it usable by production tools and...
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BoardSurfers: Make Menus Your Own – Customizing Menus and Toolbars with...
Flexibility and the ability to customize the software/environment to your own personal needs is a definite strength of Cadence® software, and the Allegro® platform is no different. Whether you are...
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BoardSurfers: Look Before You Leap - Verifying Footprints in the Design...
View the footprints of symbols during design entry in Capture: verify the footprint and land pattern dimension before exporting your design to a board layout tool, such as PCB Editor,(read more)
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BoardSurfers - Aerials and Bails: Minimum Screen Resolutions and Large Forms
The Cadence® Allegro® backend layout tools are large, complex, highly-capable environments that provide you with a massive amount of functionality. Whether you are designing a rigid-flex PCB, a BGA...
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BoardSurfers: Easier Design Work through Colors, Patterns, and Visibility
PCB and IC Package substrates these days are complex. Multiple layers, hundreds to thousands of components and pins, degassed and cross-hatched shapes, routing, and everything in between can make the...
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BoardSurfers: Text Labels and Film Views Help Intelligent Designers
Last time, I talked about color and visibility as it relates to simplifying your design canvas display to make your work easier. Today, we take the next step forward: using your artwork films to drive...
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How To Maintain Connectivity in a Multi-Board PCB System
Today’s electronics often incorporate multiple interconnected printed circuit boards (PCB) into their designs. Getting all the components in a multi-board system to work together as a cohesive final...
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How Do I Know What Functionality to Put on Which PCB Board?
There’s only so much you can do with a single printed circuit board (PCB). We’ve seen advances in miniaturization and the steady rise in the number of transistors you can squeeze on a single chip.(read...
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10 Things You Might Have Missed in 2018
We’re sure it’s been a busy year for you. So busy that you might have missed the discussions about a number of new features Cadence introduced to help make PCB design easier for you. Let’s a take a...
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Simulation for a Song: Downloading Models from the Web and Associating with...
While on a long drive, I like to sing along; say Eye of the Tiger or Johny B Goode or Sweet Home Alabama (even though I don’t live in Alabama), the music being an active part of the journey, especially...
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Teardrops and Tapers – Improving Manufacturability and Yield Automatically
Teardrops (also called fillets) are the blending area of a cline entry into a pad, while tapers are the gradual transition from one line-width to another along a path. These two core concepts appear in...
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DATA Pulse: Know How to Effectively Manage Part Obsolescence
You know what it's like, right? Those sudden urges to declutter the house. Well, during one such exercise, my niece stumbled across some cassettes and looked at them like they were from some...
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BoardSurfers - Aerials and Bails: How to Split a Viastack
Today’s compact and powerful devices require small and high-density PCBs. Tight routing around densely packed components is thus indispensable, but cannot be achieved using conventional blind-buried...
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BoardSurfers - Aerials and Bails: Take a Walk on the Wild Side...with...
We have had this question before, so it’s a good one to remind everyone of in case you’re not aware of it. What I usually hear asked is how can you have the tool automatically pan/roam when your cursor...
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DATA Pulse: Know How to Effectively Manage Part Obsolescence (Part 2 of 2)
In part 1 of this two-part blog post, we analyzed how you can define a parts lifecycle manager, define and assign lifecycle states to parts, then distribute the latest parts to designers. In part 2,...
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