1. Creating a Single Source of Truth for
Electronic Product Creation: Integrating
PTC Windchill with Cadence PCB
Design Data
Gopakumar (Gopu) Achath
Director of Technical Operations, EMA Design Automation Inc.
06/09/2015

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Business Objectives
Best-in-class organizations are obsessed with addressing the following:
 Consolidate Disconnected Data Sources
 Decrease Time To Market
 Improve Quality and Compliance

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Disconnected Data Sources
• Creating a Single Source of
Truth for Electronic Product
Creation
• Centralize ECAD Libraries and
Promote Reuse
• Automated data storage and
retrieval
Designers spend ~26% of their time correcting data
integrity issues.
Best-in-class designers have cut that wasted time
almost in half…this is largely a result of:
0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0%
What percentage of
your time is spent
correcting data
integrity issues?
Best-in-Class
All Others
26%

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Objectives to Achieve Corporate Initiatives
Disconnected Data Sources
• External
– Component Manufacturer Website
– Component Distributors
– Environmental Compliance
• Internal
– PLM : AVL/AML, Compliance Status
– ERP : Cost, Lead Time, Inventory
– ECAD Models/Library Repository
– Design Data Repository
– MCAD Collaboration

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Decreasing Time to Market
• Improve MCAD-ECAD
Collaboration
• Intelligent part selection
to avoid re-spins
• Zero Touch BOMs
53%
Product development’s top
pressure is time to market.
53% cite limited time to
develop PCBs as their #1
challenge
Why isn’t there more time to
design?
53%
32%
21%
19%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Limited time to develop PCBs
Need to support collaboration across
engineering disciplines
Manufacturing delays due to PCB
design data inconsistencies
Need better predictability of design
costs & progress
All Respondents Percentage of Respondents, n = 187
Source: Aberdeen Group September 2014

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Quality and Compliance
• Integration to compliance
data sources – internal
and external
• Traceability at the
component level
• Reduce ECAD
components count
Best-in-class companies are
seeing an increase in meeting
Quality targets
And a decrease in the amount of
time needed for PCB development
Source: Aberdeen Group 2015
Quality and Manufacturing groups are
now tasking the ECAD world with
‘compliance-aware design’ requirements
A SHIFT IS OCCURING…

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Ecosystem Challenges in Electrical CAD Design
Summary
1. Too many new parts being introduced and delays in NPR
2. Disconnected data sources – part status, compliance, life cycle, purchasing
3. Collaboration and Data Exchange with Mechanical CAD
4. BOM generation and formatting requires manual intervention
5. Work in process design data management

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Ecosystem Challenges in Electrical CAD Design
Summary
1. Too many new parts being introduced and delays in NPR
2. Disconnected data sources – part status, compliance, life cycle, purchasing
3. Collaboration and Data Exchange with Mechanical CAD
4. BOM generation and formatting requires manual intervention
5. Work in process design data management
Every new part
added can cost
as much as $15K

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Path to Business Objectives
Consolidate Disconnected Data Sources
• Single source of truth for your product configuration
Improve Quality and Compliance
• Integration of part obsolescence, time to EOL, compliance info
• Automated, controlled and easy to use new part introduction process
Decrease Time To Market
• Enabling Holistic Library and Product Creation - ECAD/MCAD and PLM/PDM

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Addressing Challenges to Achieve Corporate Intiatives
Leveraging PTC & Cadence technology to achieve collaboration and design data management
• Cadence ADW-Windchill integration
– WIP and released Design Data Management
– Parametric data synchronization for ECAD Libraries
– Automated new part introduction
• ECAD-MCAD Collaboration using IDX
• 3D representation of the board

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PTC and Cadence Collaboration
Providing a Foundation of Exceptional Solutions
Enabling Holistic Library and Product Creation - ECAD/MCAD and PLM/PDM
• Design Data Management
• Library(Meta) Data Management
• IDX for ECAD-MCAD Collaboration
PTC
Supplied
PTC WGM
for Cadence
TDO
Windchill
Gateway for
ADW
Cadence
Supplied
Allegro
Design
Workbench
PDM Option
Library
Workbench
& Server
Allegro Design Authoring
Allegro
PCB Designer
Allegro SI
Windchill
ECAD
WGM for
Cadence
ProSTEP
EDMD - IDX
ECAD-MCAD
Collaboration
Extension (ECX)

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Windchill – Cadence ECAD Library Integrations
Windchill Gateway for Cadence® Allegro® Design Workbench (ADW)
• Synchronize Part attributes between Windchill and ADW
– Create Windchill Part records in ADW
– Create ADW Part records in Windchill
• Synchronized metadata exchange enables:
– EE visibility into all part data from within ADW
• Sourcing, compliance, lead-time, availability - at their fingertips!
– Accurate part data for BOM and/or Where-Used analysis across
all Products and Projects
• Windchill “New Part Request” Workflow supports the
creation and library management of OEM components
– New part creation process can begin either in ADW or Windchill
Cadence® Allegro® Design
Workbench
08456529
ROHS = NonCompliant
Stock = 1000
LifeCycle = LastBuy
BOM
IC, 08200010
IO, 08456788
RES, 08456529
08456529
ROHS = NonCompliant
LifeCycle = LastBuy
Stock = 1000
Value=10K
Tol = 5%
Status = Released0805
Height = 20
Status = Released
RES
Status = Released

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Windchill Integration for Cadence® Allegro® Team Design Option
• Cadence® Allegro® Team Design Option (TDO)
– Team based ECAD Design Environment
– System level design approach
– Complex hierarchical design projects
– Block level IP reuse
– Available in SPB 16.6
• Data managed directly in Windchill enables
– Enables global team design for ECAD
– Early visibility to ECAD design modules
– Earlier & easier creation of consolidated BOM
– Robust and secure management of IP
– Handoff of Derived Content to MFG (IPC-2581)
– Available in Windchill 10.2 M010

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PTC Windchill Workgroup Manager for Cadence Team Design Option
CAD Documents
Cadence Allegro Engineer’s Desktop Windchill Enterprise View

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Derived Content
PDF, Manufacturing Files, Gerber, IPC-2581, etc.

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Derived Content
BOM
Forward Looking Information is Subject to Change © 2013 PTC

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Efficient ECAD-MCAD Co-Design Environment
• Cross domain change request management
• Support for incremental data exchange (IDX) between teams
• Preview updates, accept/reject individual changes
• Supports latest EDMD schema 2.0
Change
Categories
Accept or
Reject
Changes
Change History
Change
Notes
Allegro
PCB
Creo Parametric

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ECAD-MCAD Co-Design Collaboration Cross-domain visualization
Forward Looking Information is Subject to Change © 2010 PTC
ECAD/MCAD/Documents/
Images/Drawing views all
available in a single
viewing application.

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Cadence Allegro Native 3D Viewer
• Designed for PCB Designers to
provide a visual check of
components and enclosures
• Provide PCB designers with
accurate visual 3D models of
components
• Provide PCB designs with 3D
models of mechanical
enclosures

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