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DATA Pulse: Simplify Your ECAD Data Release Process While Ensuring Process...
Do you dread your ECAD to PLM publishing process? If yes, worry not. We have a solution.(read more)
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BoardSurfers: Leveraging IPC-2581 Spec Element Capabilities to Streamline...
If you are a PCB designer and follow IPC-2581 guidelines to design a board, this soluti....(read more)
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BoardSurfers: High-Speed Design Signal Integrity Challenges and Solutions
Usually, people start a blog by stating something dramatic and we used to bring drama to our otherwise staid stuff on PCB design by mentioning High Speed and Signal Integrity. No more. High-speed is...
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BoardSurfers: Allegro In-Design Impedance Analysis: Screen your Routed Design...
Have you ever manufactured a printed circuit board (PCB) without analyzing all the routed signal traces? Most designers will say “yes, all the time.” Trace widths and spacing are set by constraints,...
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BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Placing Parts Manually Using Design for...
So, what if you can figure out all that can go wrong when your product is being assembled early on? Not guess but know and correct at an early stage – not wait for the fabricator or manufacturer to...
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BoardSurfers: Three Steps to Using Embedded Components
If you think embedding components in a PCB just reduces product size, well that's true but that's only half the truth. Embedding components also increases performance and reduces transmission loss. So...
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BoardSurfers: Footprint Creation Using a STEP Model in Library Creator
Read how you can easily create accurate footprints from a vendor-provided STEP Model using Allegro ECAD-MCAD Library Creator.(read more)
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BoardSurfers: Allegro In-Design Coupling Analysis: Crosstalk Mitigation...
Just as social distancing minimizes human contact to prevent the spread of disease, PCB spacing constraints minimize coupling between traces to prevent crosstalk problems for drivers and receivers. In...
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BoardSurfers: DRC Browser – A One-stop Solution for DRC Management
Design rule checks are essential to ensure the functionality, reliability, and manufacturing yield for a design. You run DRCs several times during the design cycle to validate the design. If I say...
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Cadence OrCAD and Allegro 17.4-2019 HotFix 007 Is Now Available
The HotFix 007 (QIR 1, indicated as 2020 in the application splash screens) update for OrCAD and Allegro is now available at Cadence Downloads. This release includes many improved product features and...
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BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Creating High-Speed Via Structures
High-speed via structures combine vias, connect lines (clines) or traces, static shapes without voids, and route keep-outs. High-speed via structures comprise of differential pairs with return path...
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BoardSurfers: Allegro In-Design Return Path Analysis: Find and Visualize...
Return path issues are common and difficult to diagnose in complex printed circuit board designs. In the worst case, a signal could have no DC return path, and your circuit will be open at the lowest...
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BoardSurfers: Good News for Japanese Readers
In this blog, I’m going to share some great news for our Japanese readers. Let's find out what it is…(read more)
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BoardSurfers: 17.4-2019 HotFix 007 for ECAD-MCAD Library Creator Is Now...
The Library Creator 17.4-2019 HotFix 007 update is now available. This time, the entire Templates dialog has got a facelift that will make it easier to locate and select a template. A bunch of changes...
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BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Adding and Re-Ordering Mask Layers
One idea that completely revolutionized the concept of PCB making is adding layers to it. These layers are everywhere and used for everything in a PCB – whether you have to mount the components,...
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BoardSurfers: Everything You Need to Know About Fixed Fillets/Teardrops
First, teardrops and fillets are interchangeable words in PCB design, and both terms are used here in this post. Second, I’m going to go over fixed fillets from start to finish so you can avoid the...
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Quickly View Schematic Designs, Boards, and IC Packages for Free Using...
Do you want to quickly view a schematic, layout, or IC package without installing the complete OrCAD product suite? Get read-only access to design data created in OrCAD Capture, PCB Editor, Allegro...
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BoardSurfers: Installation Know-How: Six Things You Need to Know Before...
Installation of software applications depends upon certain factors such as system configuration, the number of files getting installed, and network speed. Installation time is influenced by a change...
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BoardSurfers: Allegro In-Design Impedance Analysis: Screen your Routed Design...
Have you ever manufactured a printed circuit board (PCB) without analyzing all the routed signal traces? Most designers will say “yes, all the time.” Trace widths and spacing are set by constraints,...
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BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Placing Parts Manually Using Design for...
So, what if you can figure out all that can go wrong when your product is being assembled early on? Not guess but know and correct at an early stage – not wait for the fabricator or manufacturer to...
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