Allegro Front to Back User Guide

Allegro Front-to-Back User Guide Getting Logical Design Ready for Physical Layout October 2019 47 Product Version 17.4-2019 © 1999-2019 All Rights Reserved. You have specified the properties that will be passed from the layout to the schematic.

• Cover
• c contents - Contents
• Preface
• About the Front-to-Back Flow
• How This Book is Organized
• Creating and Managing Libraries
• Allegro Front-end Tools Libraries
• Library Structure
• Creating and Managing Libraries
• OrCAD Libraries
• Capturing Logical Design
• Creating Project Using Allegro Tools
• System Capture
• You can also perform other page manipulation operations, such as creating a new page or deleting an existing page from the Project viewer. You can drag and move the pages up and down to change their order in the Project viewer.
• Allegro Design Entry HDL
• Creating Project Using OrCAD Capture
• Creating a Schematic
• Designing Schematic Using System Capture
• Creating Schematic Using OrCAD Capture
• Capturing Logical Designs using DE-HDL
• Capturing Logical Design Constraints
• Why Constraint Manager?
• Using Constraint Manager with Design Capture Tools
• All the constraints are stored in the Constraint Manager Database (CMDB) and saved in the dictionary and constraints file designname.dcf.
• Constraints in System Capture
• Capturing Constraints in Design Entry HDL
• Capturing Constraints in OrCAD Capture
• Creating Variants of Your Design
• Managing Variants in System Capture
• Creating Variants using Variant Editor
• Getting Logical Design Ready for Physical Layout
• Preparing a System Capture Design for Physical Layout
• Preparing a DE-HDL Design for Physical Layout
• Exporting a DE-HDL Design
• Forward Mode
• Preparing an OrCAD Capture Design for Physical Layout
• Exporting an OrCAD Capture
• Annotating the Design
• Packaging Your Design (Advanced)
• Generating a Bill of Materials
• Updating the Schematic With the Changes in the Board
• Passing Properties from the Layout to Schematic
• Designing Layout
• Physical Layout using OrCAD PCB Editor
• Creating a Board Outline
• Creating Symbols and Padstacks
• Importing Logic
• Defining Layers
• Defining Constraints
• Placement
• Routing
• Design Synchronization
• Physical Layout using OrCAD Capture
• Preparing the Schematic for Layout
• Property Flow from Capture to PCB Editor
• Generating Initial Board File
• Backannotation from PCB Editor
• Running Design Rules Check - Physical Rules
• Capturing Physical Constraints
• Using Constraint Manager with PCB Editor
• Synchronizing Schematics and Boards
• Need for Synchronization
• Design Synchronization Tasks
• Feedback Mode