Hierarchical approach speeds PCB layout tasks

Cadence Allegro users can automate and accelerate the tedious process of component placement using CircuitSpace software.

Component placement is time consuming, and has traditionally proved to be difficult to automate in PCBs with high levels of replicated circuitry.

With component counts on the rise and 10,000-part boards becoming commonplace, managing placement is a difficult task and can take months to complete.

CircuitSpace, available from Parallel Systems, uses a patented approach to break down the tedium of "click-and-drag" placement tedium and accelerates the whole design process.

Created by DesignAdvance, CircuitSpace seamlessly integrates with Cadence Allegro and allows users to achieve board layouts in a fraction of the time it would take to complete by hand.

Many customers have literally taken weeks of manual replication down to minutes.

CircuitSpace implements a hierarchical approach to printed circuit board design through enhanced autoclustering and replication technologies.

CircuitSpace also expedites the design process through the use of template generation for global library usage across divisions, template usage with and without etch, automated layout reference designator propagation and automated change report between layout designs.

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