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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: Creating Footprints Using Templates in Library Creator
With ECAD-MCAD Library Creator, you can easily create footprints for your parts using thousands of ready-to-use templates that are provided with the tool.(read more)
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BoardSurfers: Footprints for Silicon - Two Steps to Creating PCB Footprints
Longfellow's metaphorical footprints on the sands of time is more profound and eternal no doubt but a footprint for silicon (a form of sand isn't it?) is as important for PCB designers. So, here we...
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BoardSurfers: Allegro In-Design IR Drop Analysis: Essential for Optimal Power...
All PCB designers know the importance of proper power delivery for successful board design. Integrated circuits need the power to turn on, and ICs with marginal power delivery will not operate...
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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: 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 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: 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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