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AI-Driven PCB Design Boosts Productivity & Efficiency for Designers

Allegro X AI

Give Back Time

Time is one of your most precious and non renewable resources. Allegro X AI empowers design teams to significantly shorten design cycles, providing the opportunity for greater experimentation and optimization early in the process. By harnessing AI-driven PCB design, teams can achieve a tenfold increase in productivity, make swift, informed decisions, and concentrate on high-impact tasks, while AI efficiently handles the remaining workload.

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With Allegro X AI You Can

10X Your Productivity

Maximize designer productivity and free engineers up to focus on the highest value projects and tasks.

Optimize Upfront

Test more design possibilities in less time to ensure optimal configuration selection upfront.

Remove Bottlenecks

Evaluate design alternatives and identify bottlenecks early before committing to hardware.

AI Assisted PCB Design Where it Matters Most

Leverage AI during the most time-consuming part of the design process to dramatically improve outcomes.

Dramatically Reduce PCB Placement Times with Allegro X AI

PCB Placement is one of the most critical and time consuming steps in the PCB design process. Effective placement can make or break a design and will have direct effect on routability, testability, and ultimate project success.

With Allegro X AI you can generate options for component placement, taking into consideration mechanical requirements for fixed component locations, height restrictions, assembly rules, room assignments, and connections giving you a fast path to finished placement reducing tasks from days to hours or even minutes.

Use Models:

  • General Placement Acceleration
  • Test Placement Alternatives
  • Fit Studies
  • Route Congestion Evaluation

AI Assisted PDN Generation for PCB Designers

Determine the optimal power and ground plane configuration for your designs to create a robust power delivery network. X AI incorporates the power and ground nets, pin count, voltages, currents, desired layers, and more to generate the metal pours required for your PCB designs in minutes.

With power deliver becoming increasingly complex and challenging X AI brings much needed automation and assistance to help designers converge on an ideal PDN quickly.

Use Models:

  • Copper Pour Acceleration
  • Power Delivery Analysis

AI Assisted Routing for Fast and Accurate PCB Completion

Routing automation has long been a goal of PCB design teams. Allegro X AI brings an entirely new routing engine built from the ground up to leverage modern infrastructure and capabilities.

The X AI routing engine will help you achieve design closure faster with unparallel accuracy.

Use Models:

  • Full Board Routing Closure
  • Full Board Routing Closure
  • Design Routing Updates

Automatically Leverage Your Existing Design Data and Intent with X AI

Allegro X AI is built on the same data model you use today to design PCBs. This means X AI can access all the rules, settings, and requirements you already embed into your design today as guides for effective intent-aware AI automation. This helps you maintain a single source of truth defined in CAD that can be used for design, AI, simulation, and manufacturing. Have a look into the X AI configuration guidefor more info on how to utilize these signals in Allegro X AI.

What Data Does Design Aware Assist Use?

  • Electrical Constraints
  • Stackup
  • Board Outline
  • Rooms
  • Connectivity
  • DFM Rules
  • Physical Constraints
  • Component Type / Class

Building AI for PCB Design is Complex, Using Allegro X AI is Not

STEP 1

Load Your Design

Load your design into OrCAD X or Allegro X just as you would any other design to start using X AI.

  • Same CAD files and process as you use today
  • No new design files or external programs needed
  • Supports OrCAD X and Allegro X or any format that can be imported (Altium, Eagle, PADS, etc.)
STEP 2

Setup and Run

Follow the X AI workflow to walk you through the steps to setup and configure X AI.

  • Define standard elements (Outline, Mech parts, constraints, stackup, rooms, etc.)
  • Define power rails
  • Determine AI engine(s) to use: Place, Route, Copper
STEP 3

Review

With runs taking just minutes to hours, you won’t have to wait long until results are prepared.

  • Get results fast
  • Results displayed directly in CAD environment
  • Reports and analysis displayed directly in canvas to aid quick review

How-To?! Step-by-Step Instructions and Videos, by EMA

How to Configure Constraints for X AI

How to Configure Constraints for X AI

Learn how to configure constraints for X AI to ensure optimal results for component placement and copper pours using Allegro X AI in OrCAD X.

Details

How to Use AI to Generate Power Planes for PCB Layout

How to Use AI to Generate Power Planes for PCB Layout

Learn how to use AI to generate power planes and ground planes automatically with X AI in OrCAD X.

Have a look

How to Use AI to Quickly Place Components for PCB Layout

How to Use AI to Quickly Place Components for PCB Layout

Learn how to use AI to quickly place components in a PCB layout with X AI in OrCAD X.

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How to Configure Settings for X AI

How to Configure Settings for X AI

Learn how to configure settings for X AI to ensure accurate AI-generated PCB layouts.

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What Allegro X AI Is and Is Not

AI can mean a lot of things. Allegro X AI is purpose-built for the rigorous standards of production PCB design.

What Allegro X AI Is

  • Physics-driven AI optimization engine
  • Constraint-driven, repeatable outcomes
  • Native in Allegro X and OrCAD X
  • Built for high-capacity, production designs

What Allegro X AI Is Not

  • General purpose LLM / chatbot
  • Hallucinating or unpredictable AI
  • Third party plugin or bolt-on
  • Limited to test and prototype boards

Frequently Asked Questions

Allegro X AI is never trained on customer data and designs. Cadence uses their own library of designs along with their over 30 years of PCB design expertise to train Allegro X AI.

Runs can vary from minutes to hours based on design complexity. The focus and goal for X AI is to make sure run time is orders of magnitude faster than getting to that same point through manual methods. Take a look at some case studies (by EMA) to see examples of results.

Yes! This is a great way to test multiple experiments at once or kickoff multiple projects in parallel to help further increase the time savings from Allegro X AI.

Currently X AI uses a secure Amazon Web Services infrastructure to run the AI engine. This infrastructure is setup to protect your data at all times and at no time does Cadence or anyone else have access to the data being run in X AI. A on-premise solution is coming soon. Our team is happy to work with your IT or infosec teams to answer any questions they may have.

All that is needed is OrCAD X or Allegro X release 25.1 or above and access to Allegro X AI which is then run directly in the PCB design interface.

Currently Allegro X AI only works inside the OrCAD X and Allegro X PCB design tools, however design importers are built-in to allow you to bring in designs from other CAD solutions like Altium, KiCAD, Eagle, and PADS and run them with Allegro X AI.

The capabilities and solution space is constantly evolving. Currently X AI supports designs with 5,000 components and below and do not use flex or rigid flex. Please contact usto discuss if X AI is the right fit for the designs you would like to accelerate.

Yes! Please contact us and we would be happy to discuss the use of Allegro X AI in your design environment.

The best way to find out is for us try Allegro X AI on your designs. Contact us to set that up. In general customers are seeing 50% to 70% time reduction using the Allegro X AI technology often shaving weeks or more off design cycles. Take a look at case studies (by EMA) to see more detailed examples of results.

Yes! Please check out the Allegro X AI how-tos (by EMA) to help you get started. We will continue to add to this as we go forward.

The Cadence Early Access Program (EAP) is designed for customers who are interested in getting early previews to Cadence technology and working with us to help drive the development and functionality of upcoming projects. The AI Routing features in Allegro X AI are currently part of the early access program. If you are interested in participating, please contact us.

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