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Allegro/OrCAD Rigid Flex Design Creation Best Practices _______________________________________________________________________ Learn more at Cadence Online Support - https://support.cadence.com Page 45 © 2016 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide. Summary The new capabilities in 17.2 that support the design of Flex and Rigid Flex products define in greater details the physical aspects of the design. The designers' well thought out stackup construction, and stackup zone definitions provide better details that are exchanged with the manufacturer and the mechanical designers. Information about bending requirements also enhance the designers ability to avoid conflicts during the design process and exchange details about bend details with mechanical and manufacturing requirements. Properly defined zones save time in placement as components are zone aware and pushed to the proper placement surface without the user having to modify or create alternate symbols. This saves time not only in the design process, but also in library management. This placement layer reference can also be passed to the assembly process as well as the mechanical design environment using IDX or STEP model export. InterLayer Checks provide the ability to create rules for various layer to layer checks to detect violations for clearances and overlaps during the design process. This saves the designer time by reducing or eliminating multiple passes in other checking processes. By understanding how all the new capabilities interact with one another and developing a good planning process, the designer can eliminate workarounds once used to design rigid flex designs, save time in the design process, and have a higher level of confidence in creating a producible and reliable product. Support Cadence Online Support provides access to support resources, including an extensive knowledge base, access to software updates for Cadence products, and the ability to interact with Cadence Customer Support. Visit https://support.cadence.com. Feedback Email comments, questions, and suggestions to content_feedback@cadence.com.