BoardSurfers: Rev Up Your Designs Using Color Themes in Allegro 3D Canvas
You will agree if I say that the right use of color gets attention, enhances clarity, differentiates items, facilitates the identification of issues, and hence improves productivity. In PCB design,...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Training Insights: Creating Inter-Layer Checks Available in...
In standard PCB designs, various masks and surface finishes require verification of proper clearances and coverage. The rigid-flex designs not only have the same mask and surface finish requirements...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Translating Allegro Database to Readable Format Using 'Extracta'
In the process of developing a PCB design, a multitude of experts are involved in the verification of the design. These experts and various other stakeholders can be from your own company or from your...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: 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...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: 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...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: How to Add Fanouts Using Standard Via Structures
An increase in design complexity has forced designers to take novel approaches to meet routing challenges. Long back, designers used to group objects (vias, clines, or shapes) and copy-paste them in...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Training Insights: Creating Inter-Layer Checks Available in...
In standard PCB designs, various masks and surface finishes require verification of proper clearances and coverage. The rigid-flex designs not only have the same mask and surface finish requirements...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Translating Allegro Database to Readable Format Using 'Extracta'
In the process of developing a PCB design, a multitude of experts are involved in the verification of the design. These experts and various other stakeholders can be from your own company or from your...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: 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...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: 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...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: 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...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Training Insights: Three Ways to Start OrbitIO System Planner
OrbitIO System Planner is a multi-fabric interconnect planning and optimization solution. It provides a single-canvas environment where you can derive and evaluate connectivity between the dies and...
View Article(P)SpiceItUp: PSpice A/D Modeling Applications
What if you need a model with specific parameters, generated for your schematic on the fly? What if you need a model that is created by adding few parameters from a data sheet? What if you want to see...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: The New 17.4-2019 Dynamic Shape 'Fast' Mode is Truly Fast!
This year, it’s the new Fast shape mode, and I feel like I need to talk about it because it is a game-changer in working with positive shapes when it comes to performance and the display quality of...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: How to Detect and Resolve Copper Void Slivers
Markets today are being driven by miniaturization. As the size is decreasing, PCB designs are getting more and more complex. Manufacturing boards while also addressing the signal integrity issues is...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Training Insights: How to Assess Electrical Performance of...
In this blog, you will be taking an IC package design from Allegro® Package Designer Plus (APD Plus) and export the design to Sigrity XtractIM. You will use XtractIM to extract models from the exported...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: 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...
View Article(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...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: 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...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: 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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