July Allspice updates: Hierarchy & DRCY enhancements
July was all about you! We've been heads-down turning your feedback into meaningful improvements, from smarter, more repeatable reviews to a clearer look at your schematic hierarchy and richer API documentation. Here's what's new.
📝 View all product updates in detail on our Headway changelog. Updated every other week.
🏛️ See your schematic hierarchy, not just a flat list
Your schematic sheets, as they were meant to be viewed
Design Reviews used to show every schematic sheet in one flat list, even when your design was built from parent and child sheets. Now it displays that hierarchy, so you can see which sheets nest under which, the way you already do in your ECAD tool. Support is live for Cadence De-HDL, Cadence System Capture, and Cadence OrCAD to start, with the rest on the way.
📍 Pick up where DRCY left off with review resume
Automatically down-select to unreviewed pages
If DRCY runs out of time and posts a partial review, you can now resume with just a few clicks; open the “Request DRCY” menu and click “Resume” to automatically uncheck the reviewed pages so you can quickly kick off DRCY on the remainder of the design.
💬 Give DRCY feedback with @DRCY comments
Improve a review, correct a mistake, or add new context
Inject critical design context by adding a comment to the Design Review, starting with “@DRCY”. You can tell DRCY about your design patterns, such as using attributes for DNP, or system context such as a connected-device. You can respond to a DRCY comment to correct a component misunderstanding or describe operational logic.
🧩 New examples in our API documentation
Moving forward you can see specific examples for the core and relevant endpoints within our API wrapper (py-allspice) to understand its usage and implementation. You can see them by going to an endpoint doc like Allspice API and then selecting py-allspice in the example box on the right.
That’s it for this month’s product updates. We’re excited to keep making hardware development faster and easier, and we appreciate everyone who shares feedback along the way. Questions, feature requests, or demo requests are always welcome!
