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BoardSurfers: Four Ways to Create Footprints in Allegro Library Creator
All components on a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) layout will have a footprint. A footprint is where your component gets soldered on the PCB. These footprints need to be extremely accurate so that your...
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BoardSurfers: Installation Know-How: Installing Cadence OrCAD and Allegro...
Often organizations do not grant administrative privileges to users on their systems. Performing administrative tasks by standard users can be of greater risk than benefit as this could lead to serious...
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BoardSurfers: Allegro In-Design Reflection Analysis: Signal Integrity...
Reflections happen on Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) whenever signals encounter an impedance discontinuity, so maintaining constant impedance along all interconnects is always desirable. But it’s not...
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BoardSurfers: Training Insights: RF PCB Design Flow Using Allegro Editors
Allegro® RF PCB solution provides you with a unified design solution for complex mixed-signal projects. From schematic to layout and manufacturing, a total front-to-back design flow helps you...
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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 Crosstalk Analysis: Signal Integrity...
Crosstalk is the transfer of unwanted signals from an “aggressor” net to a “victim” and is one of the major classes of signal integrity (SI) problems that can exist in Printed Circuit Board (PCB)...
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BoardSurfers: Training Insights: How to Run a RAVEL Rule from the GUI
With the current scenario of COVID-19, you cannot do without rules. You have to soak vegetables in brine for ten minutes, wash milk in plastic packaging with soap, sanitize metals with an alcoholic...
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BoardSurfers: Extending Allegro Layout Capabilities with SKILL
Why do I need SKILL? The difference between generic departmental store clothing and premium custom tailoring is what the effective use of SKILL scripts can bring to your PCB Layout design world. While...
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BoardSurfers: Implementing SKILL Code
This post is in continuation of Extending Allegro Layout Capabilities with SKILL, where I described how SKILL code can make things faster and more efficient even without having to code from scratch....
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(P)SpiceItUp: Verifying and Optimizing Designs with PSpice A/D
PSpice® A/D is a fully featured analog and mixed-signal simulator that can be integrated with OrCAD® and Allegro® tools. With PSpice A/D you can improve design functionality and reliability, and also...
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BoardSurfers: Units, Accuracy, and Artwork - How to Do It Right!
It might seem simple, but database units and accuracy directly relate to the artwork generated, and it is possible to misunderstand the artwork format as it relates to the board setup. Thirty years...
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BoardSurfers: Implementing SKILL Code
This post is in continuation of Extending Allegro Layout Capabilities with SKILL, where I described how SKILL code can make things faster and more efficient even without having to code from scratch....
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BoardSurfers: Find by Name or Find by Query - That is the Question!
You must be using find utility day in and day out, but if you are unfamiliar with Find by Query in Allegro Layout Editors, read on. Layout editors retained the original Find by Name when developing a...
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BoardSurfers: Installation Know-How: Which Installation Method is Right for You?
Installing new software seems like a daunting task for most of us. You may feel burdened with concerns like how to install and what options to choose, and so on. So, in this post, I will unload your...
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BoardSurfers: How to Install Allegro ECAD-MCAD Library Creator Server?
In addition to reducing package creation time by 60-80%, Cadence Allegro ECAD-MCAD Library Creator has the Library Creator repository, which provides thousands of ready-to-use packages and templates....
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BoardSurfers: Managing Materials Using A Single Material File for PCB,...
Legacy material editors supported different file formats leading to inconsistencies across PCB and package substrate design applications. This drawback due to inconsistency is now overcome by the new...
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BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Running RAVEL Rules from Command Line
In one of the previous posts, we learnt about How to Run a RAVEL Rule from the GUI. The RAVEL rules that you write can be run from command line or Graphical User Interface (GUI) of Allegro® PCB Editor....
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(P)SpiceItUp: Five Ways of Finding the Right PSpice A/D Component
When you are designing a schematic, you want to focus on the accuracy and performance of the circuit, and not spend time looking for and comparing various components on vendor websites. The integrated...
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The Year That Was: Cadence PCB Design Blogs in 2020
And what a year it has been! Like many of you, we've worked from home. We juggled house and office work, washed our hands innumerable times a day, rinsed every grape before putting it in the fridge,...
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Cadence OrCAD and Allegro 17.4-2019 HotFix SPB17.40.013 is Now Available
The HotFix 013 (QIR 2, indicated as 2021 in the application splash screens) update for OrCAD® and Allegro® is now available at Cadence Downloads. This blog post contains important links for accessing...
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