PCB Designing

  • PCB design process

  • Introduction
  • PCB Editor workspace

  • PCB Material.
  • Using the PCB Editor panel.
  • PCB Editor Preferences.
  • Board Options dialog.
  • Board Layers and Colors.
  • Grids.
  • Browsing footprint libraries

  • Introduction to Library Design.
  • IPC standards in Foot print design.
  • Pad Design.
  • Foot print design.
  • Creating a new PCB

  • Creating the Blank PCB.
  • Defining a sheet template.
  • Defining the Board Shape & Placement Boundary.
  • Exercise – Creating a board outline & placement / routing boundary.
  • Transferring design information to the PCB

  • Design synchronization with schematic tool.
  • Resolving synchronization DRCs.
  • Design transfer using a Net list.
  • Exercise – Transferring the design
  • Setting up the PCB layers

  • Enabling Layers.
  • Layer definitions.
  • Defining the Electrical Layer
  • Defining Mechanical layers.
  • Defining PWR/GND layers.
  • Exercise – Setting up layers.
  • Design rules and design rule checking

  • Adding design rules in constraints manager
  • Design rules concepts.
  • How rules are checked.
  • Where rules apply.
  • Constraint region setting
  • Exercise – Setting up the design rules.