Managing the electronics product lifecycleThe Teamcenter Integration for Cadence Allegro PCB Design enables users to capture PCB designdata (schematic, physical layout, BOM, fabrication and assembly data) created under Allegro andstore/manage this information within Teamcenter – Siemens PLM Software’s digital PLM backbone.Teamcenter’s Allegro integration provides a comprehensive solution for the entire electronicsproducts lifecycle that extends from initial inception through creation, analysis, manufacturing, serviceand end-of-life disposition.

Providing a single source of product and process knowledgeTeamcenter’s Allegro integration enables users to access, manage and archive PCB design data in asingle secure location. The integration lets users open and save native design files, access approvedcomponents, populate electrical component BOMs and share fabrication and assembly data – as wellas create and manage derived files directly in Teamcenter.

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

Facilitating collaboration and concurrentengineeringTo facilitate the flow of accurate design data acrossmultiple domains, the Teamcenter integrationleverages PCB design and MCAD interchange filesthat allow the exchange of data such as boardoutlines, fixed component placements, keep-outareas and other placement restrictions.

Users can quickly understand and diagnosepotential design errors within one or more designdomains by leveraging the integration’s neutralviewer technology. This capability allows teammembers to view and mark up design issues.

Teamcenter Integration for Cadence Allegro ProductsIntegrating Allegro PCB design into yourTeamcenter PLM environment

BenefitsManages entire PCB productlifecycle

Provides a single source of productand process data

Facilitates today’s collaboration andconcurrent engineering initiatives

Leverages requirementsmanagement

Business challengesProduct development organizationsuse multiple ECAD and MCADdesign systems

Product teams need to access andshare all of the diverse informationthat they create

Design teams are located in multiplesites or dispersed across a multi-vendor supply chain

Product change and approvalprocesses take too long

SummaryTeamcenter® software’s integration for Cadence Allegro PCB design enables companies to accelerate time-to-market and reducedevelopment cost 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.

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

Complete requirements management and traceabilityTeamcenter’s Allegro integration enables users to leverageTeamcenter’s powerful requirements management capabilities.PCB hardware and software functions can be associated withspecific design requirements providing complete requirementstraceability throughout the entire PCB lifecycle.

Supported Allegro objects• Schematics• PCB layout• Components• Bill of material (BOM)• Fabrication and assembly

Supported functions• Create/load Allegro design objectsSchematicPCB designBOMFabrication dataAssembly dataECAD/MCAD interchange files (.idf format)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

Scalable solutionsSiemens PLM Software provides Teamcenter solutions that can be scaled to a company’s growing PLMrequirements, including:• Single source of product and process knowledge that enables companies to ensure all of their designdomains have access to an accurate product definition, including electronics, electrical/wire harness,mechanical and embedded software design elements

• Global collaboration capabilities that provide universally accessible viewing and markup functionality forcollaborative review and approval processes

• Requirements management capabilities that improve requirements visibility and compliance throughoutthe electronics product lifecycle

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FeaturesCreate, edit and store CadenceAllegro objects (schematic,components, PCB, BOM, etc.) asitems in Teamcenter

Manage designer’s selection and useof approved components

Establish relationships betweenTeamcenter objects and engineeringBOMs

Share PCB design data acrossengineering domains through openinterchange formats

Associate and trace productrequirements to PCB designs

Create new product revisions orversion updates for work inprogress

View, annotate and mark up designdata in a collaborative environment

Establish security and data accesscontrol policies in Teamcenter

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