Overview

Redefining System Design with Unmatched Productivity Boosts

The Cadence Allegro X Design Platform is the ultimate solution for navigating modern electronic complexities that help support your diverse PCB design needs. As a full-stack engineering platform, it provides a scalable and highly integrated environment for multi-board electronic system design.

Allegro X Design Platform ensures that your 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. 

Allegro X Design Platform

Elevating PCB design with unparalleled flexibility and comprehensive integration at all phases

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Key Benefits

Revolutionizing PCB Design Workflows

Engineering Cockpit

A unified schematic, PCB layout, and in-design analysis environment with centrally managed and versioned design data that decreases design cycle time

Multi-Domain System Design

Leverage the seamless integration across electrical, mechanical, and thermal domains as they communicate through common file formats and powerful automation languages to reduce design iterations and accelerate time to market

Augmented Intelligence

Explore the solution space with cutting-edge technology that assists engineers in optimizing design for performance and cost

Verification and Optimization

Simulate, iterate, and optimize using integrated solvers with bi-directional integration, along with Optimality Intelligent System Explorer, an AI-based optimization engine, to meet necessary design requirements

Data Integrity and Security

With enterprise-level access control and encryption standards, data is managed and versioned, facilitating seamless project management and enabling collaboration in an IT approved environment

Multi-Discipline Team Design

Avoid conflicting design data and enable concurrent team design for both schematic and PCB engineers to enhance productivity through in-tool collaboration

Applications

Work Cohesively Across Teams to Support Your System Design

  • PDN Design

    As electronic systems evolve, power integrity becomes increasingly critical. Allegro X Design Platform offers a team-based, constraint-driven design flow that empowers specialists to focus on advanced analysis tasks while automating setup and analysis for swift design iteration. Navigate power delivery network (PDN) specific requirements effortlessly with DRC markers and cross-probing, manage multiple power rails, and streamline layout and routing adjustments. With an intuitive interface, hardware designers gain invaluable insights into PDN topology, facilitating early analysis and alignment with design criteria. Integration features bridge the gap between power integrity engineers and PCB designers, enabling seamless communication and resolution of design issues. Empower your team with Allegro X Design Platform and revolutionize your approach to PDN design today.

  • 3D System Design Solutions

    In today's complex PCB landscape where high-speed signals cross multiple layers of your board, ensuring optimal signal integrity requires comprehensive analysis of the entire signal path. Traditional methods often fall short, relying on separate models for each interconnect piece and risking errors during the 3D transition from PCB to the connector. Allegro X Design Platform seamlessly merges mechanical structures like connectors and cables with the PCB, enabling holistic modeling and optimization of critical 3D structures, with automatic back-annotation saving time and eliminating errors. The intuitive interface supports all MCAD formats, allowing users to create, edit, and import 3D solid models effortlessly, offering flexible parameterization for simulation optimization. Experience accelerated system designs and reduced time to market with Allegro X Design Platform.

  • IC/Package/PCB Co-Design

    Revolutionize your IC to package to PCB co-design process with Allegro X Design Platform—a groundbreaking solution that harmonizes IC, package, and board data within an intuitive, unified design environment. This platform redefines cross-domain co-design planning, empowering engineers to optimize connectivity for performance, cost, and manufacturability upfront, reducing iterations and accelerating development cycles. With seamless integration and immediate feedback on connectivity scenarios, engineers can rapidly explore design options and streamline iterations, all while managing the entire system design from a common source. Experience unparalleled flexibility and efficiency by seamlessly exchanging data with Allegro X IC package and PCB technologies, facilitating smooth implementation and system-level co-design. Elevate your co-design capabilities and unlock new levels of innovation and efficiency in your design process.

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Capabilities

Mastering Precision: Elevate Your PCB Design Workflows

Rise Above Competition with Enhanced Component Libraries and Simulation

Allegro X Design Platform provides access to a comprehensive collection of pre-defined components and models via third-party content providers and the PSpice extensive model library, so you can focus on your design instead of component creation. Reduce unnecessary errors and enhance your design process by utilizing validated and read-to-use parts. These pre-defined libraires make it easy to simulate your circuits under various operating conditions so you can ensure optimization and reliability.

Leverage Comprehensive Design Rules for Precision and Efficiency

Tackle complex projects effortlessly with a constraint-driven environment offering dynamic visual feedback. Electrical, physical, spacing, manufacturing, and more help ensure functionality and manufacturability while improving production efficiency across various industries.

Concurrent Engineering and Collaboration

The Allegro X Design Platform allows PCB teams to collaborate globally with concurrent engineering during the PCB layout design cycle. This allows multiple designers to work on the same design simultaneously. Changes are updated in real time across a common database, ensuring design consistency without copy and paste actions.

Improve Your Designs with Optimized System Analysis and Design Integration

Allegro X Design Platform enables team design collaboration and access to all workflows of PCB design

High data transfer rates, noise, improper component placement, and poor delivery networks are some of the factors that can cause signal and power integrity issues. With the integration of system analysis technologies like signal and power integrity, thermal analysis, and electromagnetic (EM) analysis, engineers and PCB designers can easily rely on the integrated analyses such as IR drop, impedance, return path, and more within Allegro X Design Platform to identify and resolve any issues for optimal system performance.

Integrated Design Management and AI-Powered Automation

With the Allegro X Design Platform, streamline CAD library management with automatic version control and collaborative workflows. Harness the power of AI for efficient component placement and routing, reducing design tasks from days to minutes. Additionally, benefit from the industry's broadest design rules for advanced substrates, supporting specialized IC packaging features.

Collaborative, Modern, and Efficient ECAD-MCAD Co-Design 

The seamless bi-directional integration between Allegro X and all the major MCAD tools fosters an efficient and collaborative experience which ensures that your design data is synchronized and versions controlled throughout your PCB design process. Easily push and pull changes as needed from electrical and mechanical domains, visualize design form and fit, and minimize design iterations.

Ensure Reliable Circuit Performance and Longevity in the Field 

Utilize PSpice and the integrated reliability checks such as mean time between failure (MTBF) and electrical overstress (EOS) to simulate your circuits and ensure that they are electrically and thermally dependable. Easily identify whether your components can withstand environmental conditions or are exceeding device limits due to current, voltage, or power. 

Effortless Setup to Ensure Manufacturable High-Quality Products 

Comprehensive DesignTrue design for manufacturing (DFM) rules, interlayer checks, and high-density interconnect (HDI) rules allow you to design rigid, Rigid-Flex, and compact designs while adhering to design requirements. Set up design rules and validate early in the design cycle versus post-design to dramatically reduce the back-and-forth with your manufacturing partner so you can avoid costly re-spins and field failures.

Meet Length and Phase Constraints

In high-speed designs, timing is critical for preventing data loss and achieving optimal signal performance. Allegro X Design Platform makes maintaining the signal integrity (SI) of your high-speed designs easy! With the Allegro X TimingVision environment and in-design length and phase constraints, you can rely on color-coded visuals to help you identify and resolve any delay and phase information directly on your canvas, ensuring that your signals meet timing requirements.

Products

Innovative Design Solutions – Streamlining PCB Development

Allegro X PCB Designer

Unleash your designers' potential with our industry-leading technologies. Comprehensive design checks, powerful routing engines, instantaneous feedback, and seamless integrations across engineering teams ensures a smooth journey from prototype to production. Forget complex workflows – it's as easy as 1, 2, 3.

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  • Collaborate seamlessly on a global scale with concurrent team design capabilities to accelerate design tasks such as routing, optimization, and simulation, while design review and mark up help you provide feedback to your team by commenting or annotating on specific design elements.

  • Utilize interactive etch-editing commands, timing vision, auto-interactive phase tune (AiPT) and auto-interactive delay tune (AiDT) capabilities, as well as dynamic shape voiding during routing, to accelerate the time to route and tune advanced interfaces like DDRx in one-third of the time it takes to do it manually using traditional methods.

  • Take advantage of HDI technology and inter-layer checks to keep your designs compact and address the demands for smaller form factors without sacrificing quality.

  • Minimize post-analysis rework by identifying and resolving any critical signal and power integrity issues earlier in the design cycle with access to analysis workflows such as impedance, crosstalk, reflection, IR drop, and more without leaving your PCB design environment. 

  • Accurately verify designs with the interactive 3DX canvas. Bending and collision detection helps identify form, fit, and enclosure compatibility on your rigid and flex designs as well as electromechanical design optimization opportunities. Support for importing STEP models helps ensure accurate visualization and validation of your PCB assembly.

Allegro X System Capture

This modern schematic authoring solution is built from the ground up with multi-board systems and concurrent engineering in mind. Collaboration is seamless and secure with multi-user team design, powerful version management, and flexible access control. The tight integrations into AWR Design Environment Platform, Sigrity X Platform, electromagnetic (EM) analysis, thermal analysis, and PSpice technologies makes Allegro X System Capture the fully integrated engineering experience you’ve been waiting for.

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  • With fast wiring and interconnectivity, teams can manage large pin counts and complex signal handling effortlessly with net and port groups, electrical constraint sets, and smart wiring features for accurate and efficient design.

  • Integrated library and unified part search allows teams to update part and model information with ease, as well as search in your curated library network for the exact reference information necessary for your designs. 

  • Built with reuse and version control in mind, Allegro X System Capture enables your engineers to customize and templatize repeatable sections to ensure that they don’t have to lay out the same pin array on several unique occasions, while allowing multi-user access and editing capabilities at both block and page levels for secure and collaborative design management.

  • Validate your electrical designs and prevent common errors with access to advanced electrical rule checks and intelligent defaults. Easily configure your design checks, parameters, and power and ground rules to meet your specific design requirements with dynamic notifications of any violations. 

  • With an always up-to-date bill of materials (BOM), complete with real-time supply chain insights, electrical engineers can make data-driven decisions and keep track of the parts needed to mitigate any design risk and ensure the timely delivery of products.

PSpice

With access to various IC vendors and a vast model library of over 35,000+ passive and active components, PSpice offers robust simulation capabilities for verification, manufacturing optimization, and mixed-signal designs, helping reduce design time and allowing engineers to focus on intricate and challenging design tasks. This virtual SPICE simulation environment provides true mixed-signal simulation, covering analog, digital, ADC, and DAC devices.

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  • Comprehensive analysis capabilities to conduct bias point, time, frequency, Monte Carlo (worst-case), and AC/DC domain analyses.

  • Tight integration with MathWork’s MATLAB and Simulink allows you to co-simulate with PSpice and perform electrical, mechanical, and system-level simulations to model, analyze, and optimize the performance and behavior of your systems. 

  • Easily evaluate circuit performance with access to customizable plot windows and measurement functions for precise analysis of voltage, current, and other parameters over time.

  • Save cost by utilizing reliability and fault-tolerant analysis to design for component tolerances, and real-world environment optimization, and accurate yield assessments within advanced PSpice analysis options. 

  • Use non-linear magnetics and transmission line modeling for full signal simulation.

Allegro X Pulse

Allegro X Pulse manages and distributes your design and library data all while providing tight access control and intelligent version management. Its IT approved, encrypted, and lightweight implementation ensures that users are spending maximum time in their cockpit with data served directly into their tools. Product lifecycle management (PLM) connectors and API access provide integrations and flexibility, ensuring that your data is seen and synchronized anywhere it’s needed. Additionally, Allegro X Pulse ensures that you always have up-to-date bill of materials (Live BOM), real-time team design and collaboration, and intelligent design reuse.

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  • Access to unified part search and a collaborative and configurable new part request (NPR) system provides extensive ECAD library management and gives teams the ability to create and curate verified library IP, ensuring technically and supply chain-accurate library components.

  • Access to version control, along with design IP stored in a central database, makes it easy to keep track of any revisions and allows for known good circuits to be reused.

  • Extend collaboration beyond the CAD desktop. Using a simple web browser, non-engineers can interact and track the progress of your designs in real time.

  • Extend collaboration into the enterprise with direct integration to leading PLM systems. 

  • With real-time access, multiple stakeholders can track and influence the BOM as the project progresses.

Allegro X AI

As a Cadence.AI application, Allegro X AI leverages the scalability of the cloud to provide significant cycle-time compression for PCB design, enhancing an engineer’s productivity. This generative AI technology helps cut down on placement and routing tasks, leaving more room for iteration and exploration without compromising quality. It automates component placement, power plane creation, and critical net routing, allowing electrical engineers to explore the solution space for higher quality and alternative design solutions while ensuring that the design is electrically correct and manufacturable.

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  • Automated placement feature combines traditional physical design algorithms with generative AI techniques, providing alternative options for placement of components on the PCB.

  • With automated power and ground plane generation, the technology automates metal pours, saving layout design time.  

  • With critical net auto-routing, it is easy to adhere to electrical and manufacturing constraints, reducing the time needed for designers to complete routing of the PCB.

features

Advanced Tools for Seamless PCB Design and Management

Allegro X Design Platform helps bring your innovative and bleeding-edge designs to life. The constraint-driven environment provides instantaneous visual feedback and ensures the functionality and manufacturability of your PCBs while allowing you to keep designing.

Feature name Description
Library and Design Management Create, share, and manage your libraries and design data from a centralized environment. Team members have access to up-to-date information, enhancing collaboration and reducing errors. Robust version control features help keep track of any changes and maintain a complete history of revisions, ensuring data integrity.
Design for Reliability Leverage model-based design, electrical overstress (EOS), and mean time between failure (MTBF) analysis to ensure all components function as intended for reliable, long-lasting product that meet regulatory standards.
Design Reuse Not every project you work on must start from scratch. With existing and proven design IP, you can save time and prevent design errors. By reusing known-good schematic blocks, PCB modules, and design constraints, you can easily streamline your engineering process and get to market with verified technology faster.
SPICE Simulation PSpice technology offers accurate and advanced circuit analysis for your PCB designs and ensures compliance with ISO 26262 standards for functional safety in automotive systems. With true analog and mixed-signal simulation, easily simulate and verify the behavior of your circuits before physical prototyping. Tailored for precision electronics, consumer, high-power industrial equipment, and high-reliability applications.
Constraint-Driven Design With a real-time constraint-driven flow, you can easily set up your physical, electrical, spacing, 3D, and manufacturing design rules to visually verify that your unique requirements are being met. This way you’ll have less stress at signoff, reduce design respins, and improve time to market.
Rigid-Flex Stack-up by zone allows you to create and manage advanced, multi-layered stackups for both rigid and flexible regions of your PCB. Easily define bend areas and specify material requirements, while utilizing the 3D visualization tools to ensure proper form and fit. Utilize inter-layer checks to ensure the integrity and reliability of your designs to prevent potential issues during manufacturing.
In-Design Analysis Leverage Cadence’s award-winning simulation technologies and solvers to analyze and evaluate your circuits and designs without ever leaving your schematic or PCB canvas. Sigrity, Clarity, and Celsius solvers provide workflows for checking impedance, crosstalk, return path, IR drop, temperature rise, reflection, and more, all with minimal setup thanks to intelligent defaults and on-the-fly model creation.
ECAD-MCAD Co-Design Simplify the sharing of design data. Strong integrations to MCAD tools such as Autodesk Fusion, Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS and CATIA, Siemens NX, and PTC Creo allows for bi-directional exchange of mechanical and electrical data.
Concurrent PCB Team Design Collaborate seamlessly with global PCB design teams through a shared canvas, ensuring consistency and eliminating the need for copy/paste. Maintain consistency across projects as updates occur in real time, allowing for split-second design decisions while streamlining the design cycle.
Design for Manufacturing Real-time design for manufacturing (DFM) checks, including design for fabrication (DFF), design for assembly (DFA), and design for test (DFT), can help you identify potential problems while you design, so that you can avoid costly respins which ultimately derail your project timeline.
PLM Integration Access out-of-the-box connectors for all the major PLM systems from Oracle/Agile, PTC Windchill, Siemens Teamcenter, Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE and 3DEXPERIENCE WORKS. Once connected to PLM,  you will have up-to-date part information supplied by the PLM system and the ability to update the PLM with the current BOM, 3D model data, and manufacturing deliverables with a single click.
Generative PCB Layout Combining traditional physical design algorithms with generative AI techniques, Allegro X AI produces compelling placement of components on the PCB. Exploring a much larger solution space than what is possible through manual methods, the technology drives optimization of metrics, such as shorter wire lengths, while adhering to the design constraints.
Miniaturization and HDI Design Packing complex technologies in a small area has its challenges, but with HDI technology and embedded components, it’s possible to maintain signal integrity and performance. Shorter signal paths and via stub elimination make it easy to create reliable, powerful, and compact designs.

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