Design for Manufacturing

Ensure your designs perform as intended and can be successfully manufactured in high volumes.

  • Label Tune: Allegro Productivity Toolbox0:46

    Label Tune: Allegro Productivity Toolbox

    Automatically adjust text to improve readability during documentation, manufacturing and testing with Label Tune in the Allegro Productivity Toolbox.

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  • Mask Generator: Allegro Productivity Toolbox1:03

    Mask Generator: Allegro Productivity Toolbox

    Quickly create oversized masks to adhere to manufacturing requirements and improve yield with the Mask Generator in Allegro Productivity Toolbox.

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  • PCB Design for Manufacturing & Assembly

    PCB Design for Manufacturing & Assembly

    Before defining DFM and DFA and how to best utilize them, we explain the manufacturing process and the importance of optimizing this stage of PCBA development.

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  • PCB DFM and Assembly Guidelines and Principles Explained

    PCB DFM and Assembly Guidelines and Principles Explained

    Following good DFM guidelines and principles based on your CM’s equipment and processes is essential for efficient PCBA development.

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  • Prevent DFM Errors in Real-Time with OrCAD

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  • Quick Tutorial: How to Automatically Create Fillets in OrCAD

    Quick Tutorial: How to Automatically Create Fillets in OrCAD

    This quick tutorial will provide step-by-step instructions on how to automatically create fillets or teardrops on traces with OrCAD PCB Designer.

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    How to Automatically Create Fillets in OrCAD

    This quick tutorial will provide step-by-step instructions on how to automatically create fillets or teardrops on traces with OrCAD PCB Designer.

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  • RIT PCB Design Program - Visit Your Fab Day

    RIT PCB Design Program - Visit Your Fab Day

    RIT's PCB Design Program teaches electrical engineering students to design and build printed circuit boards according to DFM standards, visit your fab day helped underscore the importance of this.

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  • 3 Key Principles You Need to Know to Become Confident at PCB Design

    3 Key Principles You Need to Know to Become Confident at PCB Design

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  • Manufacturability - DFM - Discover Allegro2:07

    Manufacturability - DFM - Discover Allegro

    Identifying potential problems before you finish the design and before you begin the manufacturing process helps reduce costs and eliminate added expenses.

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  • DFM: Integrated Manufacturing Constraints

    DFM: Integrated Manufacturing Constraints

    Manufacturing rules are managed as constraints in the familiar constraints manager, coexisting independently with electrical rules which can have more or less constrictive constraints.

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  • Top DFM Issues to Check and Avoid During PCB Layout

    Top DFM Issues to Check and Avoid During PCB Layout

    Knowing and avoiding the top DFM issues is a requirement for efficient PCBA design and development.

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  • DFT

    DFT

    Easily ensure test points are accessible in your designs.

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  • How does your stack-up, stackup?

    How does your stack-up, stackup?

    In this webinar, you'll learn: Why your stackup is critical to overall design success Key elements that comprise PCB board stack-ups (power planes, balance, flex / rigid-flex, etc) Material...

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  • Real-Time Design for Manufacturability (DFM)

    Real-Time Design for Manufacturability (DFM)

    Post-design DFM checks are too late. Even if you’re able to find a mistake, you’re going to lose hours, days, even weeks adjusting your design. OrCAD gives you the full DFM, Design for Fabrication...

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  • Prevent DFM Errors in Real-Time with OrCAD

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  • Slideshow: Allegro DesignTrue DFM Overview

    Slideshow: Allegro DesignTrue DFM Overview

    Allegro DesignTrue DFM technology provides real-time manufacturing checking to the PCB design process. Why wait to find all your DFM issues at the end when you can be resolving them while you design.

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  • 10 Common Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Issues and How to Solve Them

    10 Common Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Issues and How to Solve Them

    Every day is a busy day for PCB Designers; strict schedules and tight deadlines are a normal occurrence. From layout to manufacture and testing, a single holdup can cost a business untold amounts...

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  • IPC DesignersCouncil San Jose July 2018

    IPC DesignersCouncil San Jose July 2018

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  • On-Demand Webinar: Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Why it Matters

    On-Demand Webinar: Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Why it Matters

    Prevent time-to-market delays by identifying manufacturing issues before they become a costly mistake. It’s not uncommon for designs to be submitted to manufacturing only to have problems...

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  • Allegro - DFM Integrated Manufacturing Constraints1:16

    Allegro - DFM Integrated Manufacturing Constraints

    Extensive design for manufacturability rules coexist with all other design rules in the constraints manager. In total, there are over 200 checks available. Adding a new rule is easy; just find th

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  • Best Practices: Real-time DFA Analysis

    Best Practices: Real-time DFA Analysis

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