PCB Design
PCB Design
From schematic to a manufactured, debugged board.
Days 4-6 · 10 lessons · 8 h 25 min
Day 4
- ✓Circuit fundamentals you actually useOhm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, dividers, time constants and the mistakes that bite on real boards.45 min
- ✓Passives: resistors, capacitors, inductorsPackages, tolerances, dielectrics, ESR, saturation, and the DC-bias trap in ceramic capacitors.45 min
- ✓Active components: regulators, op-amps, MCUsLDOs vs bucks, op-amp rules, and what a microcontroller needs around it on a board.50 min
- ✓Components in action: one board, every lawPower up the robot's motor-driver board one part at a time and watch Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, the RC time constant and the right-hand rule work on real values.55 min
Day 5
- ✓Schematic capture: drawing a circuit people can readSymbols, reference designators, nets, ERC and the conventions that make a schematic reviewable.45 min
- ✓PCB layout and stack-upLayers, copper weight, vias, trace width and placement strategy.60 min
- ✓Power integrity, signal integrity and EMIReturn paths, decoupling, impedance, crosstalk and keeping motor noise out of your ADC.50 min
Day 6
- ✓DFM and how boards get madeFab capabilities, Gerbers, reflow profiles, tombstoning and what a DFM check catches.50 min
- ✓Board bring-up and debuggingA bring-up plan, the right instruments, and a systematic way to find faults.45 min
- ✓Practical: design the robot's motor-driver board in KiCadA complete KiCad workflow from schematic to a fab order for the course robot's driver board.60 min