PCB design for manufacturing
Owner: Dr Ali Mohammadi
Number of students: 2
Formative Deadline: Friday W22
Learning Outcomes
Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) provide a scalable platform for design and manufacture of electronic systems. Despite massive automation in this technology, familiarity with electronic components and layout design techniques are among the top skills in electronics industries. Creating and editing footprints for electronic components, netlisting circuit schematics, placing the components, routing the copper etches and generating standard design files (called Gerber files)
Knowledge Requirements
For Knowledge, you should complete the “PCB” Moodle quiz available on this unit’s Moodle page.
Application Requirements
Requirements: 1) Completion of the knowledge requirements 2) To claim this skill, your page should include the following evidence of work carried out in ORCAD. All screenshots of the PCB must show your username in the etch layer. Screenshot of schematic symbols created based on a datasheet using different methods in ORCAD Capture. Screenshot of the created/edited PCB footprint netlisted in accordance with the schematic symbols. Screenshot of the PCB layout and the schematic of the circuit it is based on (e.g., an audio amplifier circuit). Demonstration of the application of appropriate design for manufacturing guidelines. (50-100 words). Screenshot of a generated multilayer board layout. Screenshot of the circuit schematic that the designed board is based on. Justification for the decision to use a multilayer scenario, including performance and cost factors with reference to estimated costs from a PCB supplier (50-100 words).
Synthesis Requirements
Completing the application requirements for an independent project in combination with all the PCB design skills. 1) Screenshot of the circuit diagram, which needs advanced manufacturing compared with previous levels. 2) Screenshot of the PCB layout, with clear graphical annotation of five DFM rules, (Student IDs in etch layer) 3) Provide brief explanation of necessity for following DFM rules with mapping between manufacturer capabilities and component/system datasheets.
Knowledge Opportunities
After the lecture W21
Application Opportunities
During lab until W21