Length : 2 days
Course Description
The Allegro® PCB Editor Intermediate Techniques course gives you a deeper understanding of the software, and includes 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 PCB Editor Basic Techniques course before taking this one or have the equivalent work experience.
This course requires the SPB17.2-2016 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
- 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 PCB Designer
Software Release(s)
SPB17.2-2016QIR6
Modules in this Course
- Reusing Design Constraints
- Copper Planes
- Unused Pad Suppression
- Testpoint Generation
- Interactive Etch Editing
- High-Speed Constraint Management
- More Constraints
- Differential Pairs
- Design for Assembly
- Tips and Tricks
- SKILL Commands in the PCB Editor
- Extraction of PCB Editor Views
- Glossing
- Debugging Problems
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 PCB Editor Basic Techniques.
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