Title: OrCAD PCB Editor
Duration: 3 Days
Schedule 2010
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Description
This 3 day course will cover all the necessary steps for designing a printed circuit board, from loading logic/netlist data through producing manufacturing/NC output.
Learn about the user interface for the OrCAD PCB Editor product.
- Construct design libraries
- Import logic design data
- Define design rules
- Use the Constraint Manager
- Compare technology files
- Use interactive and automatic placement
- Swap gates and pins
- Route interactively and automatically
- Run automatic glossing
- Create copper areas
- Generate manufacturing output and documentation
- Customize the OrCAD PCB Editor.
Audience
- PCB Designers
- Layout Designers
- Electrical Engineers
- Designers
- Design Engineers
- PCB Layout Designers
This course is for printed circuit designers and design engineers who have an understanding of PCB layout and manufacturing considerations.
Prerequisites
You should have a working knowledge of PCB design and a basic understanding of PCB manufacturing processes.
You must also be proficient with using Windows and standard Windows applications.
Related Courses
Course Agenda
- PCB Editor User Interface
- Identify the user interface components
- Navigate within the PCB Editor window and access UI features to tailor the tool for individual needs
- Managing the PCB Editor Work Environment
- Create and use scripts
- Use the Control Panel to locate board database objects and report information about them
- Padstacks
- Create a flash symbol user for thermal relief
- Use the Pad Designer to create padstacks for a number of typical pins, such as through-hole and surface-mount pads
- Component Symbols
- Use the Package Symbol Wizard to create a Package Symbol
- Use the Symbol Editor to create a surface-mount package
- Board Design Files
- Use the Mechanical Symbol Editor to create Board Mechanical Symbols
- Use the PCB Design Editor to create a Master Board Design
- Importing Logic Information into PCB Editor
- The Logic information can come from Concept, Capture, Third party
- Setting Design Constraints
- Assign Standard & Extended Design Rules for Spacing & Physical Dimensions
- Add, Change & Delete Properties of Components & Nets
- Component Placements
- Use Floorplanning to organise the placement of components with the same ROOM property
- Assign Reference Designators for preplaced parts
- Interactively place components
- Advanced Placement
- Turn rats nets on and off to selectively place components
- Use interactive and auto swapping for pins and gates
- Perform cross placement between PCB Editor and DE HDL or DE CI
- Routing and Glossing
- Define and Display etch grids used for Routing
- Add and Delete connect lines and vias
- Prepare for Autorouting by creating preliminary embedded planes
- Route net connections with PCB Router
- Use Slide and Replace Etch to improve routing
- Use the Cut option in conjunction with other etch editing commands
- Use Gloss to automatically clean up the routed etch in the Design
- Copper Areas and Positive or Negative Plans
- Learn how to generate Positive and Negative Plans
- Preparing for Post Processing
- Rename Reference Designators and backannotate changes made in the PCB Editor to the Schematic Environment
- Preparing the Board Design for Manufacturing
- Generate and Edit Silkscreen layers
- Use Reports available in PCB Editor
- Setup the Design File for Artwork - Preview before plotting
- Generate Drill Symbols and legend for fabrication drawing
- Create check plots
- Output a Drill file used for drilling the board holes in manufacturing
If you need to cancel your confirmed training course place within 5 working days of the course date, and are unable to send a substitute, cancellation fees will apply at 100% of the course fee.