Allegro 17.2-2016 PCB design platform features comprehensive in-design interlayer checking technology said to minimize design-check-redesign iterations and a new dynamic concurrent team design capability that accelerates product creation time by up to 50%. Utilizing material inlay fabrication techniques, these new capabilities reportedly can reduce material costs by up to 25%. Includes embedded Sigrity technology, to ensure critical signals meet performance criteria and power integrity (PI) for power delivery and IR-drop issues.

Capabilities include:

• Rigid-flex design enhancements, to specify multiple rigid and flex stack-ups in the same database. Stack-up-by-zone feature can also be used in rigid designs to create material inlay regions leveraging a mix of expensive and inexpensive materials, enabling reduction of material cost by up to 25%.
• Unique and comprehensive in-design inter-layer checks for flex and rigidflex that saves manual effort and ensures all rules for advance flex designs are adhered to, avoiding many design-check-redesign iterations.
• PI for PCB designers that leverages Allegro and Sigrity technologies to provide faster, more reliable access to IR-drop analysis results, to efficiently meet power delivery network (PDN) design requirements.
• Interoperable Allegro and Sigrity technologies that provide an easy to use environment, which shortens design and verification time. This is achieved by avoiding unnecessary physical prototype iterations through improved route channel utilization using tabbed routing, new in-design backdrilling rules and efficient sharing of custom return path via structures optimized with Sigrity technology.
• New Native 3D engine that streamlines system design process and provides improved visualization and collision detection to avoid unnecessary MCAD/ECAD iterations.

Synchronous team design capability shorten design time by up to 50% for dense designs and increase efficiency by enabling the team to design synchronously. Allows up to five PCB designers to conduct real-time, concurrent PCB design work within the same design database, shortening time to route a dense design by up to 80%.

Cadence Design Systems, cadence.com/news/allegro172