<p>Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has announced the newest release of its Allegro printed circuit board (PCB) technology, addressing customer need for a streamlined solution for efficient product creation. Allegro 16.6 accelerates timing closure for high-speed interfaces by 30-50 percent, through timing-aware physical implementation and verification delivered in the electrical CAD (ECAD) team collaboration environment for PCB design using Microsoft SharePoint technology.</p><p>"As chip designers are tasked with developing increasingly complex products with tight time-to-market deadlines, having quick and easy access to design teams and resources both locally and globally creates a real competitive advantage," said Simon Floyd, Director, Innovation and Product Lifecycle Management Solutions at Microsoft. "The Cadence PCB design tools, integrated with SharePoint, provide a unique environment that promotes team collaboration, design creation and control, and significant productivity improvements."</p><p>New features in the Allegro 16.6 product line enable enhanced miniaturization capabilities for embedding dual-sided and vertical components, timing-aware physical implementation and verification that accelerate timing closure, and improved ECAD and mechanical CAD (MCAD) co-design all crucial for accelerating development of feature-rich electronic products.</p><p>The Allegro suite's leading PCB design miniaturization capabilities were first introduced in 2011. The Allegro 16.6 product suite maintains to leverage the latest manufacturing advances in embedding active and passive components to address the specific design requirements associated with ever shrinking board size. Components can now be embedded vertically on an inner layer of a PCB leveraging the Z-axis, which greatly reduces X- and Y-axis real estate on the board.</p><p><a href="http://www.eeherald.com/section/news/nws20121019.html">Keep reading...</a></p>