What's Good About Innovation at Cadence? – It’s Alive and Well and Increasing!
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Gerald "Jerry" Grzenia
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November 3, 2009
I'm switching gears this week from my regular SPB technical product posts to focus on an annual Cadence event - Cadence Innovation Day . Today Cadence will honor the 2008 recipients of the Excellence in Innovation Awards. This year, 35 winners will
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What's Good About Net Color Override in Allegro? Check Out The SPB16.2 Release and See!
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Gerald "Jerry" Grzenia
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October 29, 2009
Color assignment in Allegro PCB Editor has been accomplished with either a class/subclass color assignment or a color assignment done with the highlight command. With designs becoming more complex, it's desirable to be able to assign colors, including
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What's Good About Package Power Integrity? You'll Need SPB16.2 To See!
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Gerald "Jerry" Grzenia
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October 21, 2009
As clock and data frequencies increase and high-speed systems become ever more densely populated, the distribution of power becomes a major challenge for package power/ground design. To ensure that high-speed systems continue to deliver the required performance
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What's Good About PDV Symbol Property Templates? The Secret's in the SPB16.2 Release!
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Gerald "Jerry" Grzenia
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October 7, 2009
Allegro PCB Librarian / Part Developer (PDV) Symbol Property Templates have been a very beneficial feature in the SPB16.2 release. IEEE standards define a certain set of properties and their attributes for a symbol. Adding these properties individually
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What's Good About APD's Design Integrity Check? - It's in SPB16.2!
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Gerald "Jerry" Grzenia
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September 30, 2009
The Cadence IC Packaging tools are complex, flexible tools that allow a designer freedom to create a package substrate layout in a myriad of ways. As a result, it becomes possible to run a particular feature at a time when the database is ill-configured
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What's Good About Allegro's Component Placement Changes? - More Features in SPB16.2!
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Gerald "Jerry" Grzenia
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September 23, 2009
In the SPB16.2 release of Allegro PCB Editor , there are two (2) new very helpful features (among the many others) that assist PCB designers with component placement - Component Alignment and Placement Replication. Component Alignment You can now specify
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What's Good About Eye Masks in PCB SI? You'll Need SPB16.2 to See!
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Gerald "Jerry" Grzenia
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September 9, 2009
Eye masks let you specify the acceptable parameters for what an eye should look like in order to extract clock transmissions and high-speed data to buffer models. The current method of creating and saving eye masks is tedious. SigWave has been enhanced
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What's Good About Split Parts in AMS Simulator? More Features in SPB16.2!
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Gerald "Jerry" Grzenia
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September 3, 2009
This new SPB16.2 feature allows Allegro AMS Simulator (PSpice) customers to simulate split parts as single components. The PSpice engine can identify different sections of a split part and simulate them as a single component by intelligently combining
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What's Good About Blogging? - The People: Readers, Posters, Cadence!
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Gerald "Jerry" Grzenia
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August 19, 2009
I'm taking a break this week from the technical type posts to say THANK YOU to the people who make blogging a success. Of course, Blogging and Blogs are only successful if they are read and people post their thoughts and questions to continue a discussion
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What's Good About DEHDL Usability Improvements? The Secret's in the SPB16.2 Release!
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Gerald "Jerry" Grzenia
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August 12, 2009
The Design Entry HDL (DEHDL) usability improvements are many and significant in the SPB16.2 release! The DEHDL product moves even closer to other Windows based applications, such as Capture CIS, Adobe Reader and Microsoft Office applications, in terms
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