i.MX8M Plus Eval Board Altium Design Files?

[JEaccelerate]

I have found the binary Allegro design files for the i.MX8M Plus eval board (LAY-46370_B.brd), but I am unable to import these files into Altium. Could I have access to the ASCII Altium importable version (*.alg)?

[sholland96]

Can you please share the .alg file with me as well?

[Manuel_Salas]

Hello @JEaccelerate 

NXP only provides the Allegro files, you can try converting the allegro files to an Altium files.

Best regards.

Salas.

[JEaccelerate]

The only way to convert into Altium files is with the ASCII (.alg) Allegro file, which is created in Allegro (using Cadence's extracta.exe utility). I do not have Allegro, so I am unable to perform this conversion myself. I've seen threads similar to this on other product lines where tech support was able to email out the .alg version. I would appreciate the same being done for this layout (LAY-46370_B.brd).

[Manuel_Salas]

Hello @JEaccelerate 

Yes, I sent you the .alg file directly.

Best regards.

Salas.

[JEaccelerate]

Alejandro,

Have you had a chance to look into this?

[Manuel_Salas · Accepted solution]

Hello @JEaccelerate 

Yes, I sent you again the correct one.

Best regards.

Salas.

[JEaccelerate]

It worked perfectly. Thank you!

[JEaccelerate]

Thank you for your help, though I think something went wrong with this.

The import didn't work and it looks like the file size is much too small (1kB). From the file name I think the wrong file may have been converted. I believe the file that needs to be converted with extracta.exe is "LAY-46370_B.brd" This brd file is 22.6MB so I imagine the resulting .alg file will be on the order of 10s of MB (if not 100s of MB).