In the listing below you will find an overview of the new features in OrCAD/Allegro PCB Editor Release 16.6-2015.
Depending whether you are using Standard, Professional or Designer you will gain the following extra features by upgrading to Release 16.6-2015.
OrCAD | Allegro | |||
PCB Editor Feature (Click on the link for a video explanation) |
Standard | Professional | Designer | |
Application Mode | New | New | New | |
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New | New | Incl. | |
Full Skill Support | New | New | Incl. | |
Snake Routing for Hex pattern Ics | New | New | Incl. | |
Hug Contour Routing (Flex) | New | Incl. | ||
Impedance Single Ended Worksheet | New | Incl. | ||
Dynamic Heads‐up Display for critical rules | New | Incl. | ||
Differential Pair Static Phase Control rules | New | Incl. | ||
Propagation delay rules (Relative) for nets or groups | New | Incl. | ||
Propagation delay rules (Min/Max) for nets or groups | New | Incl. | ||
Net Scheduling, T‐Point rules (pin to T‐point), T‐Point definition | New | Incl. | ||
Via array / Shielding - Shape and Trace based | New | Incl. | ||
Group route Bus Route and via patterns | New | Incl. | ||
Extended (X)net rules | New | |||
Line Fattening | New | |||
Segment over void detection | New | |||
Spread lines between voids | New | |||
Dynamic Differential Pair Phase Control rules | New | |||
Backdrilling | New | |||
Updated free footprint library (750 footprints) | New | New | New |
The CB Team thanks our collegues at Parallel Systems in the UK for providing the detailed video's.