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www.cadence.com 4 Allegro EDM Solution Allegro Part Information Manager The Allegro Part Information Manager's parametric component search ties into your company's preferred components database, providing access to approved and preferred parts, thereby helping lower costs and reduce inventory. Users can search and select parts based on parametric and business data, and view schematic symbols, PCB footprints, and component datasheets during the selection process. The selected parts are used to build a preliminary BOM from which they can be added directly into the schematic. Allegro Team Design Options The Allegro Design Authoring and Allegro PCB Team Design options allow multiple design engineers or PCB designers to collaborate asynchronously in the development of a logical design or PCB. Schematic designs can be user-partitioned at the page level or hierarchical block level, and assigned to specific members of the engineering team, providing them with an isolated "sandbox" for the development and verification of their partition(s), block(s), or sub-design(s). The Team Design dashboard provides the user with a visual reference as to the state of various sub-designs, current versions of the shared project versus a local working project, and a set of functions that allow the management of sub-designs. Benefits • Improves control over the design by allowing a team lead to grant access to specific areas of the design to specific team members • Reduces configuration management overhead by enabling teams of engineers and designers, even in geographically disperse regions, to work concurrently on the same project using a common dashboard • Improves predictability and consistency by isolating changes to the master design through a sandbox WIP area for each user and by versioning design objects during each check-in • Enables a design-reuse methodology Specifications System Requirements • Cadence Allegro Data Manager vault Platform/OS • Windows 7 (64 bit) • Windows 8 (64 bit), all service packs • Windows 10 (64 bit) • Windows 2008 Server R2 • Windows 2012 Server, all service packs • Linux RHEL 5.10/6.5/7.1 (64 bit) • SLES 11 SP2/SP3 (64 bit) Master Project GPS USB VIDEO Audio Sub- Project GPS USB VIDEO Audio Sub- Project GPS USB VIDEO Audio Sub- Project GPS USB VIDEO Audio Sub- Project GPS USB VIDEO Audio Figure 4: The initial "master" project is automatically replicated in each team member's own area, allowing controlled synchronization and updating of modules to/from the "master" as the design progresses; team members can develop and validate asynchronously without disrupting other team members or the master project until requested or required Figure 5: Configurable design flow guides users through the design process and brings appropriate design tools to the user's desktop in each step of the process