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PCB Design Solution

The Cadence® PCB design solution offers the widest range of fully scalable PCB design technologies, which are ideal for everything from the simplest of boards to the most complex, high-speed designs. With an integrated, hierarchical constraint management system, the solution provides a consistent way to create, manage, and validate design intent across the entire design flow. Using this comprehensive approach to PCB design, teams can enable constraint-driven collaborative design across IC, package, and PCB domains to improve productivity, reduce costs, and accelerate time to market.



 

From large design teams to individual designers, everyone involved in the conception and implementation of PCBs is encountering unprecedented design challenges. Time-to-market pressures, shrinking schedules, increasing high-speed constraints, and the need for accurate data/parts management are all contributing to the complexities of PCB design. On top of these issues, today's advanced designs typically incorporate reusable intellectual property (IP) blocks, high-pin-count devices, complex bus interconnects, and imported design modules for RF sub-circuits.

To deal with all this complexity, designers need to define and constrain critical high-speed signals at any stage of the design process. They must also use sophisticated signal integrity (SI) and analysis, and be able to ensure that the final PCB meets performance goals regarding traditional manufacturing and test specifications. In addition, since virtually every new design contains high-speed signals, constraint management and validation are now required throughout the design process.

Cadence addresses these design challenges with the industry's most comprehensive approach to PCB design. The Cadence solution for PCB design includes the widest range of fully scalable PCB design technologies, which are ideal for everything from the simplest of boards to the most complex, high-speed designs. With an integrated, hierarchical constraint management system, the solution provides a consistent way to create, manage, and validate design intent across the entire design flow.




The PCB design solution reduces costs and accelerates time to market by enabling constraint-driven collaborative design across IC, package, and PCB domains. It is ideal for:

  • System interconnect modeling—enables collaboration throughout the design process via a unique co-designethodology that allows design and analysis of the system interconnect across IC, package, and PCB
  • Design capture for large-scale designs—reduces the time to capture designs with large-pin-count deviceand highly constrained backplanes by employing a multistyle design creation environment
  • High-speed PCB design—employs a complete high-end, high-speed design and analysis environment created for tes tasked with design of gigahertz-speed PCB interconnect
  • Team-based PCB design—allows multiple PCB designers working concurrently on a design to share access to a sgle database, regardless of proximity
  • Mainstream PCB design—offers affordable, high-performance Cadence® OrCAD® PCB design technologies that lerage proven Allegro® technology to boost the productivity of smaller design teams and individual PCB designs
  • Regulatory compliance—assists in the development of the compliance process/ specification, accelerates library data verification/conversion/creation, and ensures correct integration to parts selection tools—while minimizing time to migrate non-compliant products to compliancy