Case Study: Imagine Communications achieves fewer re-spins and faster, higher-quality high-speed PCB designs with Cadence Design Systems' Allegro and Sigrity

Designing Complex, High-Speed Boards with Fewer Re-Spins

Imagine Communications, a Frisco, Texas–based supplier of live production and multiscreen video solutions, faced rapidly increasing PCB complexity—boards with dozens of layers, thousands of differential pairs and multiple high‑speed interfaces—and their legacy tools and simplistic simulations couldn’t keep up. Manual workflows and inadequate DDR4/10G signal analysis led to frequent prototype re‑spins, slowed time‑to‑market, and constrained design quality.

By adopting Cadence’s Allegro PCB Designer, Allegro EDM and Design Entry tools plus the Sigrity signal‑integrity suite, the teams gained integrated, power‑aware simulation, concurrent team design and managed libraries. The result: comprehensive pre‑fab validation, fewer iterations (from up to four down to one or two), roughly 50% faster turnaround through simultaneous editing, higher design confidence and quality, and cost savings from avoiding unnecessary retimers and reworks.

Imagine Communications

Boris Nevelev

Senior Hardware Design Engineer