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.