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Learn by designing a simple board. Step-by-Step tutorial.

What you will learn

You will learn everything essential needed to start working with OrCAD and Allegro

After this course you will design a board

You will understand the complete workflow to design a board in Cadence software

You will know how to draw schematic, create schematic symbols and footprints, route PCB and generate outputs for manufacturing

Description

Cadence software is one of the most popular and frequently used CAD software for schematic design (OrCAD) and PCB Layout (Allegro). If you are planning to become a professional hardware design engineer, if you are moving to OrCAD & Allegro from different software or if you have never designed any board before and you would like to learn it, this course will help you.

Go through complete design process of a simple board and learn

– Draw schematic
– Create schematic symbol, pads and footprint libraries
– Route your PCB and do layout
– Generate the essential documents needed to manufacture a board

Goal of this course

The main goal of this course is to go through a complete board design process (Schematic + Libraries + PCB + Documentation), and this way to show, demonstrate and practice all the essential OrCAD and Allegro features which are also used to create more complex and advanced boards.


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Content and Overview

You will start with creating schematic symbols. After all symbols are finished, you will learn how to draw schematic, modify it, how to update your schematic symbol library and how to create footprints. You will learn how to transfer your schematic into PCB, how to do layout and by the end of the course you will generate all the essential manufacturing documents.

In this course you will learn how to:

– Draw schematic, update schematic and annotate schematic
– Create components, draw schematic symbols and footprints
– Place components into your PCB
– Route a simple PCB
– Create a 3D model of your board
– Generate Bill of Material (BOM)
– Create assembly drawings showing position of components on the board
– Generate Gerber files, Pick and Place, Drill file and other files needed for manufacturing

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Content

Schematic

Introduction
Starting a new project
Creating 1×2 header schematic symbol
Creating 360R resistor schematic symbol
Creating LED schematic symbol
Drawing schematic

Footprints

Creating a through hole pad
Creating an SMD pad for resistor
Creating an SMD pad for LED
Creating a VIA
Creating 1×2 header footprint
Creating 0603 LED footprint
Creating 0805 resistor footprint
Update and Annotate schematic
Fixing warnings and running DRC

PCB Layout

Starting a new PCB
Component placement
Setting up rules and stackup
Doing PCB Layout – Routing PCB
Adding changes into schematic and updating PCB
Editing footprints and updating PCB
Finishing PCB
Checking PCB for errors, Running DRC

Generating outputs for manufacturing

Generating Gerber files
Generating NC drill file
Printing Assembly Drawing and other layers
Generating Pick & Place file
Printing Schematic
Generating Bill of Material (BOM)