Learn to Design Circuit Boards to make World Class PCB: Part-1 (2 Layer PTH) with Design of Footprints of SMD Components

Welcome to the “knowledge-rich” practical training eBook on- “Learn to Design Circuit Board to make World Class PCB.” This is a Part-1 - TWO LAYER PTH PCB Design course. More than 2 layers PCB Design courses will be available in latter parts.
The author is a Graduate in Electronics from the prestigious institute, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and has spent more than 4 decades as design and application engineer in various industries in India & USA. The author is a renowned expert in PCB Design and has successfully designed a large number of electronics products for industrial and domestic use.

This eBook is EXCLUSIVELY for “BEGINNERS IN PCB DESIGN”. We will teach you PCB Design from scratch. It’s a highly systematic approach and suitable for those who have never designed a PCB. You can easily become a professional PCB Designer if you:
1. are a beginner and starting a career in electronics design.
2. think that PCB Design capability is a job requirement.
3. are an Electronics Engineer or Technician and want to include PCB design as part of your skill set.
4. are an Electronics Hobbyists, BE/M.Tech /Ph.D. student.
5. are connected with Electronics Product Design and Manufacturing Activities.
The course is built around an integrated design environment using standard tools required to capture circuit schematic to the design and layout of the printed circuit board (PCB). You can quickly familiarize with the design methodology using classroom managed lessons and easy to understand ‘hands on’ practical creative demonstrative Screenshots and Images. PCB Design is taught with or without Schematic Editor. Auto Routing PCB Design is mostly unsuitable for professional grade PCB production and hence manual routing is taught systematically. The most important aspect of PCB Design is building a Library of Land Patterns with Footprints for the SMD components. This eBook will teach you how to make Footprints of SMD Components which can be used directly for PCB Designing.
Today’s industry requirement is smart & compact PCB which will fit into a compact industrial console. To do this, designer has to be an expert in manual component placement and manual routing and this eBook has extensive lessons on this.
You will learn how to create your own library for Land Patterns and Footprints of all latest component packages.
An important aspect of PCB Design is the production of professional manufacturing data which will be accepted by the PCB manufacturer. Dedicated chapters will teach about generation of Gerber Files, Drill Data and other important data for PCB manufacturer.
PCB Design is taught through 2 practical examples in which step by step PCB Design techniques are taught through lessons ,images and screen shots. The eBook teaches how to use the General Toolbar and PCB Design Toolbar in “DesignSpark” software. The course will teach how to use Commands, Shortcut Keys, Units, Grids, Measurement Techniques, Component Symbols and use of Footprints and Land Patterns library. The course has extensive details of how to use PCB Design Editor to do Component Placements, Routing, Picking the Tight Areas, Pouring Copper into Areas, Checking Design Integrity, Design Rules Checking, Designing Power pane layers, Reports Generation, Preparing Parts Lists.
This is a “Self-Help” course and serious readers will learn professional grade PCB Designs within 2-3 weeks or may be earlier.
Objectives of this PCB Design Course
(A) Understanding design steps
(B) Schematic Capture to PCB layout
(C) Learning PCB design techniques and rules
(D) Developing skills in PCB design
(E) Component placement & routing
(F) Footprints & Land Patterns Design techniques
(G) Building component footprint library
(H) Generation of Manufacturing plots
Buy this eBook, apply the knowledge in practice and convert yourself a truly skilled PCB Design engineer.