Allegro X Design Platform
Redefining system design with greater productivity
An integrated environment for PCB and multi-board electronic system design. Concurrent collaboration, constraint-driven workflows and integrated analysis help teams reduce project risk and shorten design cycles.
Platform overview
One connected engineering workflow
Allegro X brings schematic capture, PCB layout, design data management and in-design analysis together in a single connected workflow — so engineers work from the same data, at the same time.
- Schematic capture
- PCB layout
- Design data management
- In-design analysis
Built for collaboration and scalable system design, the platform supports data-informed engineering decisions from first schematic to manufacturing.
Key benefits
Built for how system teams actually work
Engineering cockpit
Unified schematic, PCB layout and in-design analysis, with centrally managed, versioned design data.
Multi-domain system design
Coordinated electrical, mechanical and thermal workflows across the whole system.
Augmented intelligence
Tools that help engineers explore design options and improve performance and cost.
Verification and optimisation
Integrated simulation and analysis workflows, including Optimality Intelligent System Explorer.
Data integrity and security
Access control, encryption, versioning and managed collaboration.
Multi-discipline team design
Concurrent schematic and PCB design using shared project data.
Applications & team workflows
Every discipline, one design
See how each role contributes to the same shared project.
PCB designers
Place, route and verify boards against live constraints, sharing the same database as the rest of the team. AI-assisted placement and routing take repetitive tasks off the critical path.
↳ One shared, versioned design database
Testimonials
What engineering leaders say
“At Schneider Electric, turnaround time and the quality of the end product are absolutely critical for business success. With the Allegro X AI technology from Cadence, we see a great potential to significantly shorten our development cycle.”
Customer success
Designed with Cadence Allegro X
VSORA
Designed with Cadence Allegro X
SpiNNaker
Designed with Cadence Allegro X
Raspberry Pi
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Capabilities
From library to manufacturing
Component libraries and simulation
Integration with Ultra Librarian, access to over 18 million IPC-7351B and ANSI-compliant symbols, footprints and 3D STEP models, plus PSpice models.
Constraint-driven design
Electrical, physical, spacing, manufacturing and other rules with visual feedback.
Concurrent engineering
Multiple designers working on shared design data with real-time updates.
System analysis
Signal integrity, power integrity, thermal and electromagnetic analysis — including impedance, return path, IR drop and temperature.
Design management and AI-powered automation
Library and version management, AI-assisted placement and routing, and advanced-substrate design rules.
ECAD-MCAD co-design
Bi-directional exchange with Autodesk Fusion, SOLIDWORKS, CATIA, Siemens NX and PTC Creo.
Reliability
PSpice simulation and checks such as MTBF and electrical overstress.
Design for manufacturing
DFM, fabrication, assembly, test, interlayer and HDI checks.
Timing and phase constraints
Visual length and phase constraints using the Allegro X TimingVision environment.
Supply-chain visibility
Sourcing intelligence, availability and pricing, supplier verification and part-alternative evaluation.
Products
Part of the Allegro X family
Allegro X PCB Designer
Constraint-driven PCB layout for designs from simple to highly complex, with integrated schematic, rigid-flex, HDI and manufacturing outputs.
PSpice
Industry-standard analogue and mixed-signal circuit simulation for verifying and optimising circuit behaviour before layout.
Allegro X AI
AI technology built on the Allegro X platform that automates placement, power-plane generation and critical net routing.
Features
Feature overview
- Library and design management
- Centralised, versioned libraries and design data.
- Design for reliability
- Stress and reliability checks driven by simulation.
- Design reuse
- Reuse proven circuit and layout blocks across projects.
- SPICE simulation
- PSpice analogue and mixed-signal simulation.
- Constraint-driven design
- Rules defined once and enforced from schematic to layout.
- Rigid-flex design
- Layer-stack and bend-aware rigid-flex layout.
- In-design analysis
- Sigrity, Clarity and Celsius workflows inside the design flow.
- ECAD-MCAD co-design
- Bi-directional exchange with major MCAD tools.
- Concurrent PCB team design
- Several designers working in one database simultaneously.
- Design for manufacturing
- DFM, assembly, test and HDI checks.
- PLM integration
- Connect design data with enterprise PLM systems.
- Generative PCB layout
- AI-driven placement and routing exploration.
- Miniaturisation and HDI design
- Microvias, fine-pitch and dense interconnect support.
Free viewer
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