Latest Prerelease 2.95 Build 258

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Prerelease Brd2Apv 2.08 is available.

Brd2Apv is not licensed. Run on a machine with Allegro installed, it will use Cadence's Extracta.exe to first extract, then format this information into an .APV file that Doctar can process.

Brd2Apv will review the versions of Cadence installed on the local machine, in 2.08 and beyond, the application will attempt to use the oldest to newest versions of extracta.exe, as found in the Cadence installed folders.

A log of the process is captured in c:/Cad-e/Logs/brd2apv.log.

This file is appended to on each run. Cadence system error messages, when available are reported here. Path information for Cadence tools must be correct.

Prerelease 2.08 Information:

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Prerelease Release Version 2.95 Build 258 is available.

This release works to address the 17.4 support for Orcad DSN and Allegro.

Users MUST ensure that CDSROOT is set and pointing to their cadence install path - typically c:\Cadence\SPB_17.X

Users MUST ensure that CDSROOT\tools\bin is in their system path, for example c:\Cadence\SPB_17.2\tools\bin

Pre Release Rev X 2.95 (Build 258) Information:

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Prerelease Version 2.95 Build 257 is available.
This addresses a parsing issue for PADS Logic netlist files, that were being mapped to POWER PCB PCB files. This version also does explicit licence file checking for the Doctar license file - license.txt and if a floating license the file license.dat It does not have the changes in the 254 release.
Pre Release Rev X 2.95 (Build 257) Information:

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Prerelease Version 2.95a Build 254 is available.
This release is a stop gap for companies that can not get DSN processing to work. This is a re-release of our older approach to pulling data from DSN files. For 17.2 designs, please set your CDSROOT variable to c:\Cadence\SPB_16.6 We are hoping to have a long term fix to DSN issues soon.
Release Rev V 2.95a (Build 254) Information:

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