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BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Creating Footprints in Allegro PCB Editor
A footprint is a graphical representation composed of pads used for connecting electronic devices to a PCB. Any error while creating a footprint can cause redesigning of the whole board. Therefore,...
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ASCENT: Analyzing Electrical Stress, Aging, and Faults of PCB Components
Component heating, Joule heating, heat sinks…does the very idea of checking the stress of hundreds of devices on a board for various operating conditions make you reach for a cup of coffee? Is a ¼ Watt...
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BoardSurfers: Managing Minor Spacing DRCs Using Manufacturing Tolerances
While translating boards from different PCB design applications or changing design units in the later phase of a design cycle, a wide variety of mathematical round-offs may occur for geometric...
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BoardSurfers: Voiding Text in Copper Shapes
Almost every PCB design includes different types of shapes, mainly for ground and power connections. Shapes in a PCB usually represent copper areas. When designing a PCB, you might want to create a...
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BoardSurfers: 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...
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(P)SpiceItUp: Simulation Profiles in Five Steps
After completing a circuit, it’s time to run simulations. The first step is to define a simulation profile. A simulation profile controls which analysis is run and what resources are to be used, for...
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Boardsurfers: An Introduction to Allegro DesignTrue DFM Rule Aggregator
Design companies often work with multiple PCB fabricators and each fabricator may have a different set of DFM rules. It is a customary practice followed by design companies to create a common...
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Designing the Allegro System Capture Way
A design starts in the mind of an architect, gets drawn on whiteboards as basic block diagrams that describe a system. Next, designers see what can be reused from older designs, schematics get drawn,...
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BoardSurfers: How to Create and Remove External DRCs using SKILL in PCB Editor
Design rules checks (DRC) determines whether your layout design complies with design constraints and highlights any violations. Performing DRC is an essential step of PCB development signoff before you...
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ASCENT: Some Basic Rules for Design Verification
In part 1 of this blog post, we covered the model-less aspect of Allegro® System Capture’s Design Integrity solution and now here we are with part 2. So, maybe scrolling through or navigating 200-300...
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(P)SpiceItUp: Simulation Profiles in Five Steps
After completing a circuit, it’s time to run simulations. The first step is to define a simulation profile. A simulation profile controls which analysis is run and what resources are to be used, for...
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Boardsurfers: An Introduction to Allegro DesignTrue DFM Rule Aggregator
Design companies often work with multiple PCB fabricators and each fabricator may have a different set of DFM rules. It is a customary practice followed by design companies to create a common...
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Designing the Allegro System Capture Way
A design starts in the mind of an architect, gets drawn on whiteboards as basic block diagrams that describe a system. Next, designers see what can be reused from older designs, schematics get drawn,...
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BoardSurfers: How to Create and Remove External DRCs using SKILL in PCB Editor
Design rules checks (DRC) determines whether your layout design complies with design constraints and highlights any violations. Performing DRC is an essential step of PCB development signoff before you...
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(P)SpiceItUp: Generating ISO 7637-2 Standard Pulse 2a in PSpice A/D
Many times, you would have required to create a standard pulse waveform that can be used for testing devices as per the industry standard. One good example is to simulate the ISO 7637-2 transient at...
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(P)SpiceITUp: The Power of Options in Managing Accuracy and Speed Using...
The tolerances are not unique to only PSpice or simulators, they are part of any problem requiring numerical methods of solutions involving reiterative steps that finally converge. For example, many...
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BoardSurfers: Training Insights: A Comprehensive Solution for Setting Up PCB...
PCB design complexities increase with the increase in the number of parts and layers in a design. For creating these complex designs with maximum efficiency, the design tool should be equipped with...
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BoardSurfers: Using Variables and Stacks in Allegro SKILL
In our previous blog post, we discussed how to count the number of pins and rename reference designators using the SKILL codes available in the Allegro SKILL Code Library. In this blog post, let’s...
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ASCENT: Reusing Designs in Allegro System Capture
This post is for those of you who have been creating logical designs and boards for a while. In most cases, a new product or design doesn’t require every component or module to be made from scratch....
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BoardSurfers: Exchanging Manufacturing Data in IPC-2581 Format Using Allegro...
IPC-2581 ensures efficient PCB design data transfer and brings advanced capabilities to extract all the required data for manufacturing and assembly. This includes netlist, test pad information,...
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