PCB Design

Allegro X

Streamline your PCB and system design with this intuitive, comprehensive design solution covering schematics, PCB design, signal and power integrity analysis, and more

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A Comprehensive Enterprise PCB Design Platform Built to Scale with Your Business

The Allegro X Design Platform from Cadence is the ultimate solution for enterprise businesses navigating modern electronic complexities, supporting diverse PCB design needs. As a full-stack PCB development solution, it provides a scalable and highly integrated environment for multi-board electronic system design. The platform provides a single, cohesive environment for schematic design, electrical analysis, PCB design, signal and power integrity analysis, and more.

Allegro X ensures that global teams can effectively and concurrently collaborate to minimize project risks, lower production costs, and ensure design compliance and standards are met. Electrical engineers and PCB designers can make data-driven decisions with access to constraints and integrated analysis workflows reducing turnaround time while ensuring product reliability, manufacturing, and first-pass success.

Key Features & Benefits

Advanced High-Speed Design

Leverage auto-interactive delay and phase tune, automatic rules-based routing, timing vision with color-coded results, backdrilling support, and reusable electrical rules sets to quickly and successfully complete high-speed designs while reducing signal integrity issues.

Automated HDI & Miniaturization

Create reliable, powerful, compact designs, and ensure project success by enabling a rules-driven HDI design flow with parameters for HDI spacing, stacking, and micro-via insert. Additional capabilities and manufacturing rules for embedded package components guarantee overall design success and reliability.

Design for Manufacturing

Achieve first-pass manufacturing success by verifying the PCB design against manufacturer’s rules and capabilities during the PCB layout with integrated design for manufacturing (DFM) rules using the DesignTrue DFM Partner Portal and DesignTrue DFM Wizard.

Real-Time Collaboration

Leverage access restrictions and a single design database to complete a PCB layout simultaneously, eliminating the need to merge revisions, reducing errors. With embedded design review and markup, stakeholders and designers can easily comment on and review the layout, streamlining the PCB design process.

Constraint-Driven Design

Manage complex designs with rule-driven design, including comprehensive support for timing, reflection and crosstalk, differential pairs, simultaneous switching noise (SSN), creepage and clearance, DFM, physical and spacing requirements, and more to efficiently correct the layout as you design and produce a successful PCB the first time.

Shift-Left with EE Cockpit

The “EE cockpit” includes integrated stress analysis, smart schematic audits, and more, while also allowing the design process to shift-left, embedding vital design information into the database, reducing PCB layout iterations, and driving the PCB design to success directly from the schematic.

In-Design Analysis

Integrate signal and power integrity analysis directly in the PCB design canvas for efficient evaluation of impedance, coupling, return path, IR drop, crosstalk, reflection, power inductance, and more. Easily identify problem areas with tabular results and graphical, color-coded overlays.

Exceptional Solutions, Even Better Support

Creating the best products requires the best solutions, training, and support. With a little insight into your product development process, our team of pros can point you to the tools you need to expedite your workflows.

But it doesn’t end there. We’ll stay with you every step of the way, helping solve complex design issues, answering 3D printing application questions and so much more. No matter where you’re at, both in your process and geographically, we’re here.

Engineering Success Together

Services & Customer Benefits

Technical Support

Cadence Products, including Allegro X, come with comprehensive technical support. This ensures swift assistance for any technical issues from our certified engineering team.

Unmatched Training

Thanks to our collaboration with EMA Academy, we offer extensive self-paced training content conveniently segmented into short, easily digestible videos. Empowering you to learn anytime, anywhere.

Professional Services

Along with our partners, we offer implementation and design services to help simplify the process to get your entire team up and running on this powerful CAD platform with ease.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between OrCAD X and Allegro X?

OrCAD X and Allegro X are both industry-leading software solutions for complete printed circuit board (PCB) design. While they share similar technology, Allegro X takes PCB development to the next level with tools for multi-board design, advanced DFM, support for HDI, micro vias, high-speed designs and much more.

What operating systems can I use Allegro X with?

Allegro PCB Editor is supported on both Windows and Linux operating systems.

Does Allegro X include simulation functionality?

Yes, with a library of over 35,000+ passive and active components, PSpice System Designer offers robust circuit simulation capabilities for true mixed-signal simulation which covers analog, digital, ADC, and DAC devices.

Does Allegro X support electronic package design?

While separate from PCB Editor, the Allegro X Advanced Package Designer Platform offers design tools for popular package types including PBGA, Package-on-Package, and RF Module Design.

How is Allegro X licensed?

Allegro X can be purchased with either named user or network shared licensing, with both perpetual and term-based options.

Do I need special hardware to run the Allegro X Design Platform?

No, Allegro X requires a modern PC-based workstation or laptop with 16GB of RAM.

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