Tags :SPB 16.2

Today\’s SPB 16.2 release is significant for the Cadence Allegro and OrCAD families of products, but more importantly, I think it brings a lot of new functionality for PCB designers. I will be talking about the improvements in this release over a few blog posts in coming days and weeks. First and foremost, we have added a Constraint Driven PCB Design Flow for build-up designs to accelerate miniaturization. As you know, customers in high-end consumer electronics market place, mobile phone makers, GPS navigation system makers have been dealing with miniaturization for quite some time now and have been using build-up process to fabricate PCBs. With smaller and smaller pin pitch BGAs being introduced — with 0.8 mm pin pitch or...