Cadence PCB Design Blogs: ADW's Design Migration

Cadence PCB Design Blogs What's Good About ADW's Design Migration? 16.6 has many new enhancements! Posted: 29 Apr 2013 11:24 AM PDT Prior to the Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) 16.6 release, the migration process required multiple executables: –    Netassembler –    Archiver –    Purge –    Packager It was also less robust with dependencies on external programs, and the error resolution was not always clear. With the 16.6 release, design migration is more efficient and less error prone. Below is a quick summary of what's new in ADW 16.6 Design Migration. Read on for more details … New 16.6 Design Migration Features and Settings Command line operation "Designmigration –help" for full list of options and use PART_NUMBER synchronization from the Library Flow <PCBDW_LIB>/distributions/env/libimport_parts.ini file Directive based migration The project .cpm file directives can be preserved during migration <ADW_CONF_ROOT>/<ATDM_COMPANY>/<ATDM_SITE>/cdssetup/pcbdw/MigrateDirective.txt Running Design Migration                       Please share your experience using the ADW Design Migration process.   Jerry "GenPart" Grzenia