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News Release from: Cadence Design Systems | Subject: Allegro platform version 15.2
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 July 2004
Platform boosts PCB designer productivity
The latest release of the Cadence Allegro system interconnect design platform is designed to shorten the PCB design cycle and provide significant productivity gains
Allegro platform version 15.2 takes constraint-driven PCB design to the next level and brings multiple new products to market that address the ever-evolving design challenges of integrated chip packaging and multigigahertz signals. The Allegro platform, version 15.2, introduces innovative collaborative design and library data management solutions.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 July 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The newest version of the Cadence Allegro platform has been selected by Tektronix as our primary analogue/mixed-mode ASIC, packaging, and PCB development tool suite", said Bart Welling, Director of Engineering Tools, Tektronix.
"The new functionalities of the Allegro platform reduce prototype turns, enabling a constraint-driven design flow from the very beginning at our engineers' desktops".
New constraints across Allegro platform products are able to account for critical signal delays inherent in IC packages and vias.
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These new constraints eliminate the time-consuming need for designers to link to the package database or manually account for these critical signal delays, allowing engineers more flexibility and enabling increased accuracy during the design process.
A key product in the latest Allegro platform release, the Allegro Design Entry HDL, provides front-end support for the creation and simulation of equivalent extended nets in design entry.
The Allegro Design Entry HDL product helps enhance productivity through improved page management operations and improved constraint application across signal nets.
This release also introduces new features and technologies for the Allegro platform's Allegro PCB Editor, the Allegro PCB SI and the Allegro Constraint Manager.
The Allegro PCB Editor adds undo/redo capability and interactive etch tuning functionality that provides real-time feedback.
The Allegro PCB SI adds improvements for ease of use, support for Ibis 4.0, integration with a 3D field solver for package design, and support for new rules which can shorten post layout verification time.
Finally, Allegro Constraint Manager can boost productivity with a new properties worksheet and usability improvements.
"The Allegro platform version 15.2 provides engineers with a whole new level of easy-to-use design flow capabilities", said AJ Incorvaia, Group Director for the Silicon-Package-Board Business Unit at Cadence.
"Our aim is to continue our leadership and innovation in silicon-package-board design technology and bring shortened design cycle times to the engineering community through our unique constraint-driven design flows".
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