Board Station Comprehensive

Duration:  5 days
Price:  3.250 EUR
Course Part Number:  056144

Description

The Board Station suite of PCB design tools provides the most comprehensive technology available for board design. You will examine every step of the design process in lectures; including schematic packaging, component placement, interconnect routing and manufacturing data generation. Lab exercises provide you with hands-on tool usage experience under the guidance of our industry-expert instructors reinforcing the design process steps covered in the lecture. 

You will learn how to

• Create a board outline geometry
• Create and edit mapping and catalog files to control packaging of logic symbols into components
• Package a PCB design automatically and interactively
• Setup design rules for automatic clearance checking
• Use placement tools to automatically or interactively place components on a board
• Use routing tools to complete route trace connections
• Create filled or hatched copper areas, split power planes, and thieving
• Create the data necessary to manufacture the board including: artwork, and drilling data; and fabrication and assembly drawings

Hands-On Labs

Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience in using Board Station under the guidance of our expert instructors. Hands-on lab topics include:

• Adding schematic properties to control component placement in layout
• Building a board outline geometry
• Packaging the board design
• Placing components on a board using various interactive and automatic techniques
• Setting PCB design rules including rules for layers and clearances
• Routing net connections interactively
• Creating copper areas for power and ground planes
• Generating artwork, drill and mill data
• Creating fabrication and assembly drawings
• Creating a bill of materials

Audience

• PCB Designers and Technicians
• Electrical Engineers who will be directing or performing their own circuit board layout
• CAD Engineers and Managers who are responsible for integrating Board Station into their design flow
• Members of CAD supports groups who are responsible for increased productivity of PCB design teams

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of PCB design techniques and theory. Experience designing printed circuit boards is a definite plus. 

Key Topics

• Design Manager
• Board Station RE
• Palette Menu
• Menu Bar
• Pop-up Menu
• Strokes
• Soft Key and Command Line
• Board Station and LMS
• Creating a Design Directory
• Navigating Through Directories
• Creating a Schematic
• PCB/DA Personality Module
• Location Maps
• Invoking Design Architect
• Adding Properties to Symbols
• Adding Properties to Nets
• Design Hierarchy
• DA to LMS
• Checking Schematics
• Saving Schematics
• Board Geometry
• Creating a Board Outline
• Types of Layer Categories
• Viewing Layers
• Data Reporting Layers
• Electrical Layers
• Data Storage Layers
• Top/Bottom Mapping Layers
• User-Defined Layers
• Geometry Creation
• Drawing Board Graphics
• Placement and Routing Outlines
• Component Geometries
• Reading in Geometries
• Component Mapping
• Catalog Files
• Component Geometry Definition
• Pin Arrays
• Geometry Text Setup
• Creating Part Numbers
• Mapping Geometries to Part Numbers
• Mapping Logical to Component Pins
• Checking Geometries
• Saving Geometries
• Invoking PACKAGE
• PACKAGE Results
• Library Hierarchy
• Loading Catalogs into PACKAGE
• Automatic Packaging
• Changing Geometry
• Modifying Reference Designators
• Resolving Geometries
• Interactive Placement
• Invoking LAYOUT
• Placement Setup
• Mapping Components to Board
• Placing Components by Reference
• Placing Components by Schematic Sheet
• Placing Components Automatically
• Creating Placement Groups
• Placing Component Groups
• Protecting Components
• Fixing Components
• Swapping Components
• Moving Components
• Rotating Components
• Pivoting Components
• Flipping Components
• Adding Rule and Keepout Areas
• Routing, Placement, and Rule Areas
• Setting up the Display
• Setting up for Placement
• Mapping Components Into Layout Session
• Pivoting and Rotating Components
• Fixing the Components
• Adding a Placement Rule Area
• Placing a Circuit Group (Auto Placement)
• Placing Decoupling Capacitors
• Flipping Components
• Improving Placement
• Layers in LIBRARIAN and LAYOUT
• Design Rules for LAYOUT
• Physical Layers
• No Connect Rules
• Buried and Blind Via Rules
• Layer Rules
• Net Type Rules
• Adding Nets to Net Type Rules
• Net Type to Net Type Clearance Overrides
• Net Type Layer Rules
• Pin Rules
• Saving Design Rules
• Basic Routing Properties
• Edit Layer Setup
• All Angle Routing
• Snap Direction
• Routing Vias
• Interactive Routing
• Routing Techniques
• Routing Power Layers
• Grid Based Auto Routing
• Setting Up Routing Rules
• Shape Based Auto Routing
• AutoActive RE
• Auto Route Setup
• Completed Auto Route
• Route Protection
• Changing Reference Designators
• Changing Reference Designators Automatically
• Geometric Construction
• Area Fill Setup
• Defining Thermal Ties
• Creating Area Fills
• Connecting Area Fills
• Shape Edit Mode
• Plow and Heal
• Removing Area Fill Copper
• Changing Area Fills
• Edit Area Fills
• Artwork Order
• Editing Artwork Format
• Creating an Aperture Table
• Modifying an Aperture Table
• Adding to an Aperture Table
• Aperture Table Report
• Modifying Power Apertures
• Artwork Order Report
• Creating Artwork Data
• Viewing Artwork Data
• Creating a Drill Table
• Assigning Symbols to Drill Sizes
• Changing Drill Tables
• Changing Drill Format
• Creating Drill Data
• Viewing Drill Data
• Viewing Drill Symbols
• Drill Table Reports
• Creating Fabrication Drawings
• Creating Drill Schedules
• Adding Text to Drawings
• Setup Dimensioning Parameters
• Adding Board Dimensions
• Board Station Design Process
• Part Creation - LIBRARIAN
• Schematic Capture - Design Architect
• Logical to Physical - PACKAGE
• Manage Change - PCB Design Viewpoint
• Manufacturing Output - FabLink
• Manufacture PCB - Manufacturing