Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a leader in global electronic design innovation, launched the Cadence OrCAD 16.6 design solution with new features, enhanced customization capabilities, and 20 percent simulation performance improvements that provide customers a shorter, more predictable path to product creation.
This latest release offers numerous improvements to tool usability and performance, but at the heart of 16.6 are three key benefits: enhanced miniaturization capabilities, timing-aware physical implementation and verification for faster timing closure, and the industry’s first electrical CAD team collaboration environment for PCB design using Microsoft SharePoint technology.
Enhanced miniaturization capabilities
Allegro 16.6 leverages the latest manufacturing advances to address the design requirements of ever-shrinking board sizes. The Miniaturization Option now allows users to embed components with dual-sided contacts and vertical components on the inner layers of a PCB. It also allows users to embed components in the dielectric of a two-layer PCB. These capabilities optimize board real estate.
Faster timing closure
Also new to Allegro 16.6 is auto-interactive delay tuning (AiDT) technology to accelerate timing-aware physical implementation. AiDT helps users meet timing constraints on advanced interfaces (such as DDR3) up to 50 percent faster. It allows users to rapidly adjust the timing of critical high-speed signals on an interface-by-interface basis or to apply it at the byte-lane?level, thereby reducing PCB trace tuning from days to hours.
Improved ECAD and MCAD co-design
Allegro 16.6 offers a new flow that reduces unnecessary iterations between electrical CAD (ECAD) and mechanical CAD (MCAD) teams. PCB Editor now supports EDMD schema version 2.0 for incremental ECAD-MCAD co-design. This allows PCB designers and mechanical designers to accept/reject changes and capture comments on an object-by-object basis. Such a design collaboration environment translates into faster product creation.
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