BoardSurfers: Avoid Iterations with Your Manufacturing Partner – Detect and...
Some things are rare, good or bad, but they do happen from time to time. And, some happen so regularly, we often take them for granted if good or learn to live with them if bad. But should we? For...
View ArticleDATA Pulse: In Search of the Perfect Environment—Configuring Allegro EDM
Ah, the office temperature – that eternal debate. As in many offices, ours has some people who feel that they're in the Sahara Desert, others who bundle up like they're in Antarctica, a few who just...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Designing a Rigid-Flex Board Using PCB Editor
Whether you are designing the latest pace-maker or a LED strip, you have definitely pondered awhile about rigid PCBs and flex PCBs. You might have gone through a pile of literature, called up friends...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: 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...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: 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 yet.(read more)
View ArticleDATA 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)
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Going Beyond Just Correct - Improving and Optimizing Design and...
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...
View ArticleDATA Pulse: In Search of the Perfect Environment—Configuring Allegro EDM
Ah, the office temperature – that eternal debate. As in many offices, ours has some people who feel that they're in the Sahara Desert, others who bundle up like they're in Antarctica, a few who just...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Designing a Rigid-Flex Board Using PCB Editor
Whether you are designing the latest pace-maker or a LED strip, you have definitely pondered awhile about rigid PCBs and flex PCBs. You might have gone through a pile of literature, called up friends...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Capturing Design Intent for Automatic Routing in PCB Editor
Imagine you are designing a complex board with thousands of interconnects and all the usual complexities inherent in a dense design that is also highly constrained. Well, it's easy, the 'imagine' part;...
View ArticleBoardSurfers - Aerials and Bails: How to Rename Reference Designators Using...
Components on a board are often placed per their functional group and hence their reference designators are all jumbled up. It is a common practice to rename reference designators before sending out...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Five Ways to View Your Design in 3D Canvas
Five simple yet effective ways to increase efficiency by selecting the right objects you want to model, say, all the pins or a subset of the pins in a design.(read more)
View ArticleCadence 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...
View ArticleWhat's in a Name? From Allegro EDM to Pulse in 17.4-2019
Allegro EDM (Engineering Data Management) 17.4-2019 is out! So, what's in it for you?(read more)
View ArticleBoardSurfers: 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...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Power of Information – Quickly Getting Started with Allegro and...
The Allegro and OrCAD 7.4 release is now available for download and installation. Many of you must have already started using it and many more of you must be planning to install it in the coming days...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Installing on Windows is as Easy as Updating Apps on your Smart...
Did you know that you can download and install available Cadence Allegro and OrCAD product releases and updates on Windows in an easy way using Cadence Download Manager? Yes, no more visiting the...
View ArticleExperience the Power of OrCAD with Its Trial Version
OrCAD Trial 2019 is out. Download and use the full power of the latest release of OrCAD Capture CIS, PSpice, PCB Editor, OrCAD Sigrity ERC, and more, for up to 30 days. Designed to accelerate your...
View ArticleSearch Faster and Smarter in Release 17.4-2019
Allegro and OrCAD 17.4-2019 products come with the latest version of CDNSHelp. In this post, I will quickly share the changes made in this release, that will make things much simpler and before you...
View ArticleQuickly View Schematic Designs, Boards, and IC Packages for Free Using...
Quickly view a schematic, layout, or IC package without installing the complete OrCAD product suite. Get free, read-only access to design data created in OrCAD Capture, PCB Editor, orAllegro Package...
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