Allegro Tool Setup and Configuration

Length: 2 days

Course Description

In this course, you create a customized setup for many Allegro^® tools that you can apply to a single user or across an entire company site. This tool setup course makes it easier for you to use the Allegro tools, to get new designs started, and to establish a standard environment that maximizes productivity.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Identify default setup files located in the Cadence installation hierarchy
• Define a CDS_SITE variable to point to a tool setup and configuration area
• Create and test a custom setup for a complete front-to-back flow
• Distinguish between global, user, and project einvironment settings

Software Used in This Course

• Allegro Design Authoring PS2000
• Allegro Design Authoring High Spped Option PA1410
• Allegro PCB Designer PA3100

Software Release(s)

SPB172

Modules in this Course

• Intro to Tool Setup
• Design Entry HDL
• Packager-XL
• Rules Checker
• Cross Referencer
• DE-HDL Model Assignment
• DE-HDL Constraint Manager
• Design Sync
• Bom-HDL and Variant Editor
• Project Manager
• DE-HDL SKILL
• PCB Editor
• PCB Constraint Manager
• PCB SI
• PCB SKILL

Audience

This course is designed for a variety of Cadence customers. It can benefit large and small companies with simple or complex organizations. Some companies have an internal CAD group that is responsible for Cadence^® software. In other companies, Cadence software administration might be less formalized, falling somewhere between the IT group and the end users themselves. So the audience is quite diverse. The course content focuses on the environments that are most common, while still providing help with alternate scenarios.

Prerequisites

You must have experience with or knowledge of the following:

• Most Allegro tools and the front-to-back flow

Related Courses

• Allegro Design Entry HDL Front-to-Back Flow
• Allegro PCB Editor Basic Techniques
• Allegro PCB Editor Intermediate Techniques
• Allegro PCB SI Foundations
• Allegro Design Entry HDL SKILL Programming Language
• Allegro PCB Editor SKILL Programming Language

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This course requires a generic installation environment where you can customize and test project and tool setup. Special customer environments would need to be temporarily disabled to support lab activities. The most common operating system used by our SPB customers is Windows. The setup and customization labs are written mainly for the Windows platform, but may be adapted for use on Linux platforms as well.