i.MX RT1170 EVK Design Files for Altium

[Juozas]

Hello,

I have backordered the i.MX RT1170 EVK and would like to inspect the PCB layout. We use Altium and we cannot import Cadence Allegro format.  Would it be possible to get design files for this PCB in Altium format?

Regards,

Min

[Juozas]

I have backordered the i.MX RT1170 EVK and would like to inspect the PCB layout. We use Altium and we cannot import Cadence Allegro format.  Would it be possible to get design files for this PCB in Altium format?

Regards,

Min

[JAYMAKWANA]

I WANT MIMXRT1170 EVK DEISGN FILE FOR ALTIUM. CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE ME.

[carstengroen]

Yes, this is all nice.

But, it requires you to have Allegro installed in order to do the conversion. I would guess that not all Altium users also have a version of Allegro at the same time. Hence it would be nice if NXP could do this conversion once and for all so that all your customers (using Altium) don't need to invest in Allegro in order to do the conversion.

[jeremyzhou]

Hi,
Thank you for your interest in NXP Semiconductor products and for the opportunity to serve you.
Please try the recommendation as the post demonstrates to import the brd file to Altium Designer.
Have a great day,
TIC

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[carstengroen]

I would REALLY be interested in that too!

I have successfully imported the schematic into Altium (Orcad) but the layout is in Allegro which I can't import

[mjbcswitzerland]

Hi

Altimum can import Cadence Allegro ASCII format (but not binary) so you need to ask them to "save the present format as ASCII" and then it works - some of the other EVKs are available in that format.

See
https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-RT/MIMXRT1064-EVK-files-for-Altium-Designer/m-p/1171423
where there is no positive response
but
https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-RT/Looking-for-MIMXRT1050-EVK-Demo-Board-Altium-Files/m-p/916049
where it was possible (I confirm that I can import it into my Altium version).

Since there are a lot of Altium users it would make sense for NXP to invest an hour or so saving all EVK data to the ASCII format rather than having many engineers submitting the same requests - waiting days or weeks for a response and then either getting lucky or having to abandon plans and find alternative approaches.

Regards

Mark

[brock]

@mjbcswitzerland

Hi Mark,

Thank you for all your posts on this forum.  We need more of that kind of honesty.

Have you had any experience with the low power modes in the i.MX family?

We're in big trouble with no KL27 stock for (yet) another year.  All our stuff is battery powered and we need to get down to ~10uA while sleeping and able to wake up on interrupt.

Honestly, I'd rather abandon NXP like they abandoned us, but the ease of portability with FlexIO etc. would be nice.  We have about 20 different boards with Kinetis products, I really can't believe they have done this to us.

Thanks for your time.

Brock