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What's Good About Capture’s Design Rule Checks? 16.6 Has Several New...
The Allegro Design Entry CIS (OrCAD Capture) 16.6 release provides extensions to the Design Rule Checks (DRC) system. The Custom DRC provides the ability to extend the Capture DRC system to...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Dual-Side Contact Components? It’s in...
The use of dual-sided contact components when placed on internal layers of the PCB allows connections to be made from either side of the device. One of the benefits of using this emerging technology is...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Multiple Constraint Region Assignments?...
Just a short post today.In the 16.6 Allegro PCB Editor release, multiple region shapes can now be assigned to a single region constraint object. Using the General Edit Application mode, pre-select...
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What's Good About Allegro DEHDL Net Renaming? The Secret's in the 16.6 Release!
Just a brief post this week to mention a new capability for Allegro Design Entry HDL (DEHDL) that was made available in the 16.6-QIR4 release.You can now employ net renaming without loss of data:All...
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DDR4 Power-Aware Signal Integrity Adopting Serial Link Simulation Techniques
The signal integrity (SI) prophets had predicted this time would come, and it turns out they were right. The techniques that SI engineers have been using for the past decade to analyze multi-gigabit...
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What's Good About Allegro Design Workbench Team Collaboration? Find Out in...
The Allegro Design Workbench Team Design Option (TDO) offers two (2) specific integrator roles for team design and collaboration:Logical design integrator Responsible for front-end designPhysical...
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Create Ideal Solder Mask Openings Around Bond Fingers with Cadence 16.6 IC...
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONEExposing metal through solder mask openings is as necessary as it can be frustrating. For regular arrays and grids of pins of a flip chip, embedding the...
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Customer Support Recommended – Using Test Points in Allegro Design Entry CIS...
A test point is a location within an electronic circuit that is used to either monitor the state of the circuitry or to inject test signals. Test points have two primary uses:During manufacturing they...
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What's Good About Capture’s Design Rule Checks? 16.6 Has Several New...
The Allegro Design Entry CIS (OrCAD Capture) 16.6 release provides extensions to the Design Rule Checks (DRC) system. The Custom DRC provides the ability to extend the Capture DRC system to...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Move Lines/Text to Different Classes?...
Beginning with the 16.6 Allegro PCB Editor release, lines and text can now be moved outside their present Class-Subclass structure. In previous releases, workarounds using the clipboard were necessary...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor New Slide Capabilities? 16.6 has Several...
The 16.6 Allegro PCB Editor release's new ‘Slide’ command utilizes a move-intersect algorithm that delivers smoother, more predictable, and localized edits. This change has allowed for simplifying the...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Artwork Film Capabilities? 16.6 Has...
The 16.6 Allegro PCB Editor release contains several enhancement to the Artwork Film generation.Read on for more details …Film DomainArtwork films can now be designated by the domain where they appear....
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What's Good About Using Sigrity and Cadence SiP Digital to Reduce Design...
This week, you can view a couple of videos where customers describe how they used the Sigrity and Cadence SiP Digital Layout products to simulate, verify, and reduce the size and costs of their...
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Multi-Fabric Planning for Efficient PCB Design
Recently, an article was published in Printed Circuit Design and Fab about Multi-Fabric Planning for Efficient PCB Design(see page 22 of printed magazine).Today's BGA-style packages have a significant...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Select by Lasso or Path? 16.6 Has It!
The 16.6 Allegro PCB Editor release contains two new selection options, lasso and path, which are available with commands that normally support temp groups; ‘Move’ and ‘Highlight’ are two examples of...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Vertically Placed Components? It’s in...
The ‘dual_sided_component’ property in the Allegro PCB Editor 16.6 release can be leveraged to support vertical component applications. Apply the property ‘dual_sided_component’ to the symbol...
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What's Good About OrCAD Capture’s Customization Capabilities? 16.6 has...
The 16.6 release of OrCAD Capture/Capture-CIS provides several areas for you to customize the environment.Read on for more details … Customized TooltipsYou can now utilize TCL that can override the...
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Customer Support Recommended—Modeling Voltage-Controlled Oscillators (VCO)...
A voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is an electronic oscillator whose oscillation frequency is controlled by a voltage input. The applied input voltage determines the instantaneous oscillation...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Thieving? 16.6 Has Several New...
The following enhancements have been made to the 16.6 Allegro PCB Editor Thieving application.Thieving outline: New ‘Rectangle’ option added to the list. If selected, the user is required to make only...
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What's Good About Using Sigrity to Gain Signal Access? Check Out This Expert...
This week, you can view a video where a customer describes how they used the Cadence® Sigrity™ PowerSI® tool to enable their team to run what-if cases to gain insights that lead to useful changes in...
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