Teamcenter Integration for Cadence Allegro Products

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Teamcenter® software’s integration for Cadence Allegro PCB design enables companies to accelerate time-to-market and reduce development costs by allowing users to capture their schematic, PCB, bill of material (BOM), fabrication, and assembly data in Teamcenter – the world’s most widely used product lifecycle management (PLM) solution.

• Manages the entire PCB product lifecycle
• Provides a single source of product and process data
• Facilitates today’s collaboration and concurrent engineering initiatives
• Leverages requirements management

•  Product development organizations use multiple ECAD and MCAD design systems. 

•  Coordinating ECAD/MCAD collaboration. 

•  Integrating the ECAD process into the product development process. 

•  Managing ECAD data in the context of the overall product configuration. 

•  Verifying environmental compliance. 

•  Product teams need to access and share all of the diverse information that they create 

•  Design teams are located in multiple sites or dispersed across a multi-vendor supply chain 

•  Product change and approval processes take too long. 

•  Ensuring that ECAD design implementation meets customer requirements. 

Teamcenter’s Allegro integration provides a comprehensive solution for the entire electronics products lifecycle that extends from initial inception through creation, analysis, manufacturing, service, and end-of-life disposition.

In concurrent engineering with Teamcenter’s Allegro integration users can quickly manage design data across multiple domains, the Teamcenter integration leverages PCB design and MCAD interchange files that allow the exchange of data such as board outlines, fixed component placements, keep-out areas, and other placement restrictions.

On an enterprise level, the integration allows widely dispersed PCB design teams to manage released design data, collaborate and execute design changes across the entire product lifecycle, thereby minimizing change-related rework.

Teamcenter’s Allegro integration enables users to access, manage and archive PCB design data in a single secure location. The integration lets users open and save native design files, access approved components, populate electrical component BOMs, and share fabrication and assembly data as well as create and manage derived files directly in Teamcenter.

With Teamcenter’s Allegro integration users can quickly understand and diagnose potential design errors within one or more design domains by leveraging the integration’s neutral viewer technology. This capability allows team members to view and mark up design issues.

Users can take advantage of Teamcenter’s ability to add 2.5D/3D elements to a physical layout to facilitate packaging analysis. This enables designers to analyze a package for appropriate thermal and mechanical interferences, as well as for other behaviors that need to be assessed to ensure product quality and reliability. 

Teamcenter’s Allegro integration enables users to leverage Teamcenter’s powerful requirements management capabilities. PCB hardware and software functions can be associated with specific design requirements providing complete requirements traceability throughout the entire PCB life cycle. 

The supported Allegro products are: 

• Schematics 

• PCB layout 

• Components 

• Bill of material (BOM) 

• Fabrication and assembly 

• Create/load Allegro design objects like Schematic, PCB design, BOM, Fabrication data, Assembly data, ECAD/MCAD interchange files (.idf format), and Visualization file 

• Save Allegro objects as versions or revisions 

• Open and save objects to Teamcenter 

• Extract property values residing on schematics and instances of schematics. 

• Create, edit, and store Cadence Allegro objects as items in Teamcenter 

• Manage the designer’s selection and use of approved components. 

• Establish relationships between Teamcenter objects and engineering BOMs 

• Share PCB design data across engineering domains through open interchange formats 

• Associate and trace product requirements to PCB designs 

• Create new product revisions or version updates for work in progress 

• View, annotate, and mark up design data in a collaborative environment 

• Establish security and data access control policies in Teamcenter 

• To help facilitate cost-effective electronics supply and assembly, Teamcenter provides robust capabilities for managing your commercial part vendors and their respective data. 

• Library administrators can use Teamcenter vendor management wizards to capture, manage and track all of the vital information that defines each vendor’s location and points of contact. 

• Teamcenter library administrators can define relationships between each commercial part, the vendors that supply the part, and whether a vendor is the preferred vendor. 

• Teamcenter enables you to attach the manufacturer’s documentation to each part. This documentation can include data sheets with performance parameters or the materials declaration forms for environmental compliance. 

Teamcenter-supported BOM grading capabilities enable you to monitor control quality and completeness of the parts list or the BOM being transferred to internal or contract manufacturers. You also can create different sets of rules to evaluate the part information based on contract manufacturer, markets, or regional requirements.