PCB RF Technology and Design Methodology to Allegro PCB Design - Cadence

Cadence announced the addition of PCB (Printed Circuit Board) RF technology and design methodology to the its Allegro PCB Design XL and GXL. The new capabilities helps designer facing the challenges when designing PCBs with high-frequency and wireless requirements. The new versions of the Allegro PCB Design offerings provide RF-aware technology, a front-to-back flow, and interfaces to simulation. This features help PCB designers achieve shorter and more predictable design cycles by ensuring that RF circuits match design intent.

Because tiny variations of the RF layout have a major impact on circuit performance, manual design techniques and workarounds are required to address RF-specific design challenges. Unfortunately, manual techniques are slow and prone to error. Such challenges abound in a variety of PCB markets, including consumer electronics, communications, and wireless applications.

The suite of RF-aware capabilities, now available in Allegro PCB Design, include intelligent layout for parametrically creating and editing RF geometries, a flexible shape editor, and data-aware bi-directional IFF interfaces. Through bi-directional interfaces, RF circuits can be simulated and validated for signal quality and performance. The entire set of functionalities is vital to the successful physical design and implementation of RF circuits.

The new PCB RF technology and design methodology will be available as an add-on option for Allegro PCB Design HDL XL and Allegro PCB Design HDL GXL offerings in the Allegro system interconnect design platform 16.0 release scheduled for customer shipment in June 2007.

Source: Cadence  Adds PCB RF Technology and Design Methodology to Allegro PCB Design