Length: 2.5 Days (20 hours)
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Course Description
The Allegro® X PCB Editor Intermediate Techniques course gives you a deeper understanding of the software, including features and tips. You apply constraints, autoroute high-speed designs, and work with differential pairs. In this course, you also explore high-speed design rules, create areas in your design that require different routing rules, and generate testpoints. In the task-oriented labs, you use a combination of interactive and automatic tools.
This is the second in a two-course series. You need to complete the Allegro X PCB Editor Basic Techniques course before taking this one or have the equivalent work experience.
This course requires the SPB24.1 software or later.
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Work with split planes
- Use the Constraint Manager efficiently
- Autoroute high-speed designs
- Create rules and route differential pairs
- Use different fanout options
- Add via arrays to different objects
- Perform interactive bus routing
- Perform advanced interactive and automatic routing of critical nets
- Generate testpoints
- Place parts based upon design-for-assembly rules
- Write extract programs
- Use existing SKILL® programs in the PCB Editor
- Create designs with split and complex power planes
- Use the automatic glossing routines
Software Used in This Course
- Allegro X Designer or above
Software Release(s)
SPB24.1 or later
Modules in this Course
- Design for Assembly
- Interactive Etch Editing
- Unused Pad Suppression
- Copper Planes
- Intermediate Constraints
- High-Speed Constraint Management
- Reusing Design Constraints
- Differential Pairs
- Glossing
- Testpoint Generation
- Extraction of PCB Editor Views
- Tips and Tricks
- SKILL Commands in the PCB Editor
Audience
- CAD Engineers
- Designers
- Electrical Engineers
- Layout Designers
- PCB Designers
- PCB Layout Designers
Prerequisites
You must have experience with or knowledge of the following:
- Board Layout Design
Or you must have completed the following courses:
- Allegro X PCB Editor Basic Techniques
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Hao Li, Incoatec
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Debra Lefley, Broadcom
“This training was very good. In 15 modules I learned a lot about the PCB Editor, each lesson was finished with some tutorials to practice the work with the tool.”
Volker Rittmann, Incoatec
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Leonid Epshtein, Epsilor
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Florian Hoja, OMICRON
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