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Length matching is a critical element of high-speed design, usually solved by carefully tuning the lengths of critical routes. This release sees the introduction of new Trombone and Sawtooth tuning patterns, and improvements to the Accordion pattern.
This release sees extensive improvements to both single-sided and differential pair length tuning capabilities. New Trombone and Sawtooth tuning patterns have been added, which introduce the concept of a tuning sleeve. The sleeve concept simplifies moving and reshaping the tuning pattern, allowing you to slide the tuning pattern along the original route path and around bends.
Length tuning now supports all three popular tuning patterns: Trombone, Sawtooth, and Accordion.
Press Tab after launching the Length Tuning command to choose the pattern.
For the Trombone and Sawtooth patterns, the polygonal area that the pattern is constructed within an envelope that can be thought of as a sleeve. Click to select a placed pattern and display the sleeve.
The trombone and sawtooth patterns are built within a sleeve shape, which supports a variety of shape-change behaviors.
There a number of different movement and size-change behaviors available, depending on where you click and hold on the sleeve. There are three zones where you can click and drag, these are shown in the image above.
The Shift and Ctrl shortcuts can be included during a click and drag action, modifying the behavior in the following ways:
The PCB editor's accordion pattern has been updated to support the rotation of a placed accordion pattern.
To rotate a selected accordion, hold Ctrl then:
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