Cadence Design Systems announced the Cadence Allegro X AI technology to accelerate the design of printed circuit boards.
Cadence Design Systems announced the Cadence Allegro X AI technology to accelerate the design of printed circuit boards as much as 10 times.
PCBs such as system motherboards are ubiquitous parts of electronics, and they always have to be designed to do a specific job at the lowest cost possible.
So Cadence is tapping AI with the Allegro X Design Platform to deliver transformative time savings for PCB design, with placement and routing (P&R) tasks, where the time for tasks is reduced from days to minutes. And the boards come out with equivalent or higher quality compared with manually designed boards from human engineers.
Of course, AI is nothing new at Cadence, as the company talked about “automating” chip design back in 1988 when the company was born. At that time, chips were getting so complex that engineers needed help from software that could ease the burden through automation. Now, the AI takes advantage of the latest gains in generative AI technology and it is used in conjunction with traditional computational algorithms used for layout design.
Place-and-route in PCB design is traditionally a manual time-intensive process that impacts time-to-market.
