Maximizing Productivity in Your PCB Design Webinar - Part I
With the task of designing complex boards at narrow deadlines becoming prevalent, managing design tasks like annotation of user and system defined attributes and assigning special properties on pins can save valuable efforts and reduce the overall development time. The OrCAD® PCB Designer suite (based on Allegro® technology) of tools provides a tight integration between schematic design entry and PCB layout process and can effectively handle large and complex board designs.
This webinar will feature product technology demonstrations on some of the most frequently asked questions for OrCAD Capture CIS and OrCAD PCB Editor.
Featured products:
• OrCAD Capture
• OrCAD PCB Editor
Who should attend?
• Current OrCAD PCB Editor users
• Current OrCAD Capture CIS user
What you will learn…
• How to annotate system and user defined attributes between OrCAD Capture CIS and OrCAD PCB Editor
• How to assign POWER_GROUP/ POWER_PIN property in OrCAD Capture CIS and OrCAD PCB Editor
• How to connect two nets together at a tie point
PSpice Advanced Analysis—Automatically Fine-Tune Your Circuits Webinar
Basic simulation is just the first step in creating a good PCB design. Predicting a circuit’s behavior by varying tolerances of the components used along with their stress limits is instrumental in producing designs that exceed expectations. Optimizing designs to meet new goals and specifications, parametric simulation and statistical analysis of the simulation results not only cuts down the time spent on re-working existing designs but also reduces the time-to-market for the final product.
PSpice® Advanced Analysis is a tool that can respond to any serious simulation requirements. It is used in conjunction with PSpice A/D to improve design performance, reliability and yield.
Who should attend?
- PSpice A/D users
- PSpice Advanced Analysis user
- Circuit design engineers
- Project managers
What you will learn…
- How to detect and understand limitations due to component operating limits
- How to identify critical components in a design
- How to identify non-critical components in the design
- How to optimize existing designs to reach new goals and specifications
- How to determine yield, standard deviation, 3 Sigma, 6 Sigma and other mass manufacturing predictions
- How to sweep multiple design parameters graphically
PCB Design Fundamentals using OrCAD PCB Editor Webinar
Designing a printed circuit board (PCB) can be quite a challenge when you don’t understand the capabilities of your design tools. Creating designs with critical requirements and narrow deadlines requires engineers to have comprehensive knowledge of the CAD tool you use daily. Even understanding some of the fundamental operations like importing / exporting mechanical CAD data, creating a PCB library of
footprints, physical constraints management etc., can save time and make your job easier and more productive.
In this webinar we will demonstrate how OrCAD PCB Editor, a key product within the OrCAD PCB Designer suite, offers an extensive feature set to address today’s design challenges and manufacturability concerns. You’ll also discover how the constraint-driven PCB layout editing tool derived from Cadence® Allegro technology can provide the ability to communicate necessary information back and forth with other tools involved in the design process.
Who should attend?
• New OrCAD users
• Current OrCAD PCB Editor users
• PCB design tool users
What you will learn…
• How to import mechanical CAD data
• How to create Padstacks with special shapes
• How to create Flash data for Padstacks
• How to build PCB Footprints
• How to place by “Room Properties”
• How to set and create physical constraints
• How to create negative split planes
• How to use “Zcopy” command to create multiple planes
• Layout structure (“class”/subclass” structure)
Define and “Reuse” Design Modules between Schematic Entry and PCB Layout Webinar
With the increase in design complexities and reduced time-to-market, today’s PCB design flow demands tighter integration between the schematic entry and PCB layout environment. PCB design tools that can communicate and easily share data can reduce development time and increase overall productivity. Allegro Design Entry CIS and Allegro PCB Editor allow designers to define and reuse design modules between the schematic entry and PCB layout process–creating a re-usable library element.
This live webinar will illustrate the latest release of Allegro Design Entry CIS and Allegro PCB Editor – demonstrating the tight integration between design entry and the PCB layout process. We will also demonstrate new feature enhancements that can reduce the time needed for ECOs and other design tasks–helping design teams meet their aggressive schedules.
Who should attend?
• Current Allegro Design Entry CIS
• Current Allegro PCB Editor users
• PCB design tool users
What you will learn…
• How to create reuse modules in both Allegro Design Entry and Allegro PCB Editor
• How to convert an existing schematic design into a reuse module
• How to utilize reuse design created in Allegro Design Entry CIS within another design
• How to replicate constraints stored in blocks in higher level designs
• How to cross-probe and cross-place design modules
• How to manage design variations
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