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www.cadence.com 4 Allegro Design Authoring cal designs. The Multi-Style Option can be used throughout the design cycle, leveraging existing schematic symbols or no schematic symbols at all. The abil- ity to include schematic blocks and use schematic libraries protects your cur- rent library investment. The Multi-Style Option also understands extended nets (Xnets), buses, and differential pairs, and it provides advanced features for han- dling terminations, pull-ups, pull-downs, and decoupling capacitors. It includes an online DRC engine, powerful reports, and schematic generation capabilities that make this a complete design solution for PCBs and packages. Concurrent Team Design Team design authoring enables mul- tiple design engineers to collaborate asynchro¬nously in the hierarchical devel- opment of a logical design's definition. A design can be partitioned into user- defined levels of hierarchy and distributed to the defined members of the engineer- ing team, provid¬ing them with an iso- lated "sandbox" for the development and verification of their partition(s). The Allegro Design Authoring Team Design Option provides team assignment and notification capability to assign engi- neers to specific blocks they are going to author. It provides a dashboard view of the current status of each team mem- ber's block. This solution provides much- needed flexibility for large time-critical projects while accelerating the design creation process. SKILL Programming Engineers can write SKILL programs to customize Allegro Design Authoring and create custom commands. The custom programs can be used for querying and modifying the design data in schematic sheets. By placing these programs in a common area, it's possible for a team to share the efforts of all team members. PDF Publishing The Design Publisher Option converts Allegro Design Authoring schematics to content-rich Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files, creating a secure, single-file representation of the design. The PDF files provide navigation through the hierarchy as well as access to design attributes and constraints, making them ideal for design reviews. Intellectual prop- erty (IP) is protected through access con- trols that allow you to decide what design data is published for review. Additional Utilities Allegro Design Authoring provides addi- tional tools that shorten the time to author designs: • Part Manager tracks part usage to ensure that parts are always in sync with the design database • Automatic Table of Contents (TOC) creation and management speeds schematic documentation • Power pin signal assignment automates manual reassignment of power and ground connectivity commonly needed for large pin-count devices • User-defined mouse strokes allow you to execute single or multiple commands directly from within the canvas without using the toolbar, menus, or console • Function keys streamline design entry tasks by mapping complex or frequently used commands to a single key Feature Allegro Design Authoring Flat, Hierarchical Schematic Creation • Page Navigation, Management, Hierarchy Viewer • Variant Editor • Project Manager • Cross Referencer • Archiver • Design Differences • Properties Worksheet, Differential Pair Worksheet • Support for Net Classes • User Customization • Part Manager • Bill-of-Materials Generator • Physical Design Reuse, Hierarchical Block Reuse • Import Blocks and Sheets • Copy Projects or Copy/Paste Within and Between Designs • Check Plus Rules Checker • Verilog and VHDL Netlisting • AMS Integration •