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Verified User in Semiconductors

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/17/2023

"Review for Allegro PCB Design."

4/5

What do you like best about Allegro X PCB Designer?

Cadence Allegro pcb designer is rich in features and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Allegro X PCB Designer?

Expensive, not easy to use by every user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Udit A.

Team Leader-PCB Design

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/27/2022

"Fantastic tool for high level PCB Design"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Allegro X PCB Designer?

Allegro Pcb design tool is a very great tool for all of your pcb design solutions specially for high speed designs having impedance control requirements and for complex designs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Allegro X PCB Designer?

The tools is not much user friendly so you need to have to work first for few months to get the detailed idea about its options and commands, once you understand and get aware about it, you can use it conveniently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Allegro X PCB Designer:

For small sized Simple single layer to complex multiple layers pcb design, Allegro pcb design is a good tool to fulfill your design requirements. But it is mostly suitable for high speed complex designs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Allegro X PCB Designer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Once your schematic is ready for layouting, you can switch to Allegro pcb design tool for your pcb layout, you can do placement, Set design rules, can define layer stack up, can do routing and Gerber generation and release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Sudhir C.

Manager administration

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/12/2022

"Best Tool for learners"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Allegro X PCB Designer?

Complex Circuits can be easily drawn, User friendly interface and library Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Allegro X PCB Designer?

Considering amount of library, it's user interface, looks more like an enterprise solution which requires latest upgraded system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CC

Verified User in Consumer Electronics

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/25/2022

"One of the best tool out there"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Allegro X PCB Designer?

Easy to use. One of the best library available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Allegro X PCB Designer?

Size of entire application and cost of the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UE

Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/17/2020

"Good Software for PCB simulation and PCB design"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Allegro X PCB Designer?

I used this software for layout and simulation, It is very easy for multilayer PCB layout. the custom rules are very simple in this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Allegro X PCB Designer?

The footprint making and PCB layout, The customer command is very difficult because it is based on the script, so for customer command, we have to assign key for easiness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Allegro X PCB Designer:

In the PCB layout market, the majority for software use is for Altium and Allegro so if you know that software it is good for your carrier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Allegro X PCB Designer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Doing simulation, PCB schematic design, PCB footprint generation, placement and PCB layout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UC

Verified User in Consumer Electronics

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/12/2022

"Good but need updates"

4/5

What do you like best about Allegro X PCB Designer?

Easy to review various layers without many complications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Allegro X PCB Designer?

User experience needs to be updated. Real-time background review and suggestions will be good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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TEJAS D.

Hardware Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/2/2019

"User friendly with quick learning"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Allegro X PCB Designer?

It is very helpful for PCB design it allows user to create schematics of PCB and also used to find errors in board file as well as in schematic just by comparing existing schematic with user deigned schematic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Allegro X PCB Designer?

Library symbol creation takes time. It takes 9-10 days to create symbol so it will interrupt your schematic creation also sometime software faces some slow server which takes lot of time to complete your work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Allegro X PCB Designer:

It is very good software for electrical PCB designs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Allegro X PCB Designer solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is very useful to create PCB design so that user can study PCB layout and aslo very useful to find out errors and unconnected nets in PCB. It also creates animated board file to study PCB board. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Omprakash D.

Hardware Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/2/2019

"Quick learner application"

4/5

What do you like best about Allegro X PCB Designer?

Best thing I liked from cadence that it very easy application for PCB designing and other layout designing.Tool are best here and very easy to Access.Complete stage of PCB making are in single application as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Allegro X PCB Designer?

While accessing the component it take delay and take longer time to start the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Allegro X PCB Designer:

Nice software for learner or experience also lot to learn the things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Allegro X PCB Designer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Through this software we compare out existing PDF schematic with our drawn schematic in software through this we drawn correct schematic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Narayan M.

Hardware Design Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/20/2019

"This is most commonly use and easy to handle included all the new features like design partioning."

3/5

What do you like best about Allegro X PCB Designer?

User friendly than any other software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Allegro X PCB Designer?

Component finding is somewhat difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UD

Verified User in Defense & Space

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/6/2019

"The most adwanced design tool for large projects."

5/5

What do you like best about Allegro X PCB Designer?

Capabilities, full scale integration, team design, large design handling. Different, optimized interface for different roles in the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Allegro X PCB Designer?

distributor chain is not the best, pricing is extreme in some cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.