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What's New in Allegro X

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Discover the latest updates to the Allegro X platform, enabling faster design cycles, enhanced collaboration, and seamless integration across your enterprise workflows for comprehensive system design.

    24.1 Update

    The Allegro X 24.1 update expands upon our scalable, secure, and highly integrated environment with design accelerators, managed libraries, in-design analyses to ensure product compliance and reliability, ZTNA infrastructure, 3D board-level mapping, and routing enhancements to provide first pass success.

    Schematic Capture
    • Design accelerators
      • Part Manager
        • Cross probe from Part Manager to Schematic sheet for components
        • Sync for any part instance with user overwritten injected property value from the library
        • Enable part replacement for In-sync parts
      • Decap/Bypass
        • Define and use multiple Cap value parts for a single rail (group)
      • Global Find and Search for power and ground (22.1/23.1 ISR)
        • Using Voltage property/value
        • Property Delete
        • Visibility control
      • Multiple Page Delete (22.1/23.1 ISR)
    • Free System Capture Viewer (No license required)
      • View Schematic as Read-Only with the ability to navigate and search
      • Lightweight separate installer
    • System Capture enabled with Pulse Managed Library flow
      • Integrated Library management
      • Integrated Part Data Logical Symbol Authoring with version creation and management
      • Footprint creation and management
    • System Design
      • Functional overlays
      • Table driven design
      • Multi page system level design
    • Reliability
      • Schematic template-based audits
      • Device category creation support
    • Decap wizard improvements
    • Power tree analysis
    • InDesign Thermal Analysis
      • Workflow-assisted Thermal analysis
      • Ability To perform What-If analysis:
        • Change Power source from User, Rated or Stress derived
        • Change the placement of components on the board
      • Ability to view the final temperature and power of components in a tabular format
      • Ability to view Thermal visions for each layer
    • Analysis Model Manager (AMM) integration
    • Topology extraction – TopXP Integration
    Data and Library Management
    • Parts lists in Live BOM and Unified Search
    • Analytics roll-up
    • Attachments – Version Control
    • Infrastructure
      • ZTNA Web Proxy Deployment Support (OAuth)
      • User Management Package (Keycloak) upgrade
      • Java Upgrade
    • Publish to Manufacturing (PFM) Pre-Validation
    • PLM Feature/Support Matrix
    • Schematic Symbol Authoring (All licenses)
      • Logical library authoring environment, Limited to Schematic model
      • Support for symbol templates – Create shapes and symbols.
    • Schematic Symbol Authoring + (Allegro Library Authoring) (aka PDV)
      • + Verification framework, schematic symbol, and logical to Physical compatibility
      • + Import CSV pin list
      • + Import other data formats (Future)
    • Managed Library Authoring
      • + Complete CAD library development and management platform
      • + Unified authoring and data management environment
      • + Supports structured library authoring capabilities such as templates, access control, versioning etc.
      • + Support verification framework for the complete part and associated object
      • + Data exchange and Report generation
      • + Metadata extraction for physical CAD models and make it searchable parameters
    PCB Layout
    • 3D minor updates
      • Board Level Mapping in 3DX Canvas
        • Footprint, Device, or Mechanical
        • Individual columns for Browse for model, Delete, and model Color
        • Search – wild cards before and after are implied
        • Sort models alphabetically up or down by clicking on the column header
        • Refined Search while browsing for models
      • Import and Export of Mapping File
      • Navigate 3DX Canvas without a mouse
        • Use the Arrow keys to move directions
        • Use "_" and "=" to zoom in and out
        • Use the SHIFT key + Arrow keys to rotate
      • USD (Universal Scene Description)
        export now available as an output type
        • Required for nVidia Omniverse
      • Legacy STEP Package Mapping in 2D Canvas is no longer available, 3DX Canvas mapper should be used
    • Cross Section – Impedance Physical Rules
    • Incremental Frozen Shape Update - ability to update dynamic voids selectively
    • Void Adjacent Layer Shapes
    • Via Stub Reduction – Layer Transition Count
    • Fiber Weave Awareness - DRC to flag routing that are likely over voids in fiber weave, above *RSS length
    • Diff Pair Routing between Diff Pair Pads
    • Display
      • Embedded Reference Designators
      • Enhanced Display Embedded Names
    • Parameterized Artwork Film Records
    • Interactive Routing Enhancements
      • Differential Pair Controls
        • Improve Diff Pair gather during trace width/space transitions and region entries to avoid manual clean-up
      • Pad Entry Controls
        • Revise Diff Pair Pad Entry with pad geometry-based calculations, increasing Diff Pair coupling while meeting manufacturing guidelines
      • Custom Smooth Usability
        • Provides the ability to ignore electrical timing rules to complete route smoothing to reduce connection lengths before tuning
        • It is important to preserve layer space while meeting electrical timing rules, preventing overall interface length from increasing

    To learn more about Allegro X, click here to read the datasheet.