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BoardSurfers: Bending the Flex Boards
When you design a rigid-flex board, the focus is, of course, on the bend. Your design might be bend to install (stable flexion) - it will be bent only a few times while installing. Or it might be...
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BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Creating Custom Reports using ‘Extract’
You must deal with many reports in your daily life – for your health, financial accounts, credit, your child’s academic records, and the count goes on. Ever noticed that these reports contain many...
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BoardSurfers: Creating Footprints Using Templates in Library Creator
With ECAD-MCAD Library Creator, you can easily create footprints for your parts using thousands of ready-to-use templates that are provided with the tool.(read more)
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BoardSurfers: Footprints for Silicon - Two Steps to Creating PCB Footprints
Longfellow's metaphorical footprints on the sands of time is more profound and eternal no doubt but a footprint for silicon (a form of sand isn't it?) is as important for PCB designers. So, here we...
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Quickly 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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DATA Pulse: Speed up ECAD Part Search in Allegro System Capture
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. Then this post is for...
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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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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...
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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: Allegro In-Design IR Drop Analysis: Essential for Optimal Power...
All PCB designers know the importance of proper power delivery for successful board design. Integrated circuits need the power to turn on, and ICs with marginal power delivery will not operate...
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DATA Pulse: Speed up ECAD Part Search in Allegro System Capture
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. Then this post is for...
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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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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...
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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: 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...
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BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Loading SKILL Programs Automatically
Imagine you are on a vacation with your family, and suddenly, your phone starts buzzing. You pick it up and what are you looking at is a bunch of pending, unanswered e-mails. You start recollecting the...
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BoardSurfers: Five Easy Steps to Create Footprints Using Packages in Library...
In my previous blog, I talked about creating a footprint using an existing template in Allegro ECAD-MCAD Library Creator and explained how easily you can access an existing template and create a...
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BoardSurfers: Training Insights - Fundamentals of PDN for Design and PCB Layout
What is a Power Distribution Network (PDN) after all but resistance, inductance, and capacitance in the PCB and components? And, of course, it is there to deliver the right current and voltage to each...
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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: 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...
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