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DATASHEET
The Cadence
®
Allegro
®
PCB RF Option is a mixed-signal
design environment, from schematic to layout with backan-
notation, proven to increase RF design productivity up to
50%. It allows engineers to create, integrate, and update RF/
microwave circuits with digital/analog circuits in the Allegro
PCB Design environment. With its rich layout capability
and powerful interfaces with RF simulation tools, it allows
engineers to start RF design from Allegro Design Entry-HDL,
Allegro PCB Editor, or Agilent ADS.
ALLEGRO PCB RF OPTION
PCB RF DESIGN
SOLUTION
PCB designers face significant challenges
in integrating RF circuits on a mixed-signal
design. Todays advanced designs are
more complex and need to incorporate
all design portions such as digital, RF/
microwave, and analog circuits on the
same board. To deal with this complexity
on a PCB, designers must be able to
create a mixed-signal design within an
integrated, production-ready PCB design
environment.
RF/microwave modules are different
from digital circuits in many respects.
For example, distributed RF components
are usually parameterized with widths
and lengths; RF circuits have symmetric
structures, with many large irregular
shapes used for RF layout. Designers
need a feature-rich, efficient, reliable, and
easy-to-use mixed-signal PCB design tool
to handle all of these design needs.
ALLEGRO PCB RF OPTION
The Allegro PCB RF Option is the answer.
This RF design solution combines the
strength of both Cadence Allegro and
Agilent ADS design environments for
designing and integrating RF circuits on
mixed-signal PCBs. The Allegro PCB RF
Option provides everything needed to
develop complex RF/mixed-signal designs
simply and quickly in an integrated
environment with Allegro Design
Entry-HDL (DE-HDL) and Allegro PCB
Editor.
The Allegro PCB RF Option provides
a robust set of layout functionalities:
parameterized etch element generation,
quick placement, RF-style routing, editing
of RF etch elements, and the ability to
place via arrays along user-specified
objects such as an RF component,
a connect line (cline), or a discrete
component. The generated etch elements
will be recognized as RF components with
parameters. Users can easily change the
parameters of the elements after they are
placed; the system will re-generate those
elements.
The Allegro PCB RF Option also supports
complex copper shape creation and
editing with its Flexible Shape Editor,
which is a supplement to the existing
shape functionality of Allegro PCB
Editor. With the ability to understand RF
components in PCB layout, the Allegro
PCB RF Option offers the unique capability
of layout-driven design, which generates
the RF circuit schematic changes in
Allegro DE-HDL for new RF elements
introduced in PCB design.
The Allegro PCB RF Option also supports
different design flows working with RF
design and analysis tools from Agilent.
It provides a bi-directional interface
for design data exchange (partial
or complete), a discrete component
translator, and import of schematics from
Agilent ADS.