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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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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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