Expedition PCB Introduction
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Course Part Number: 236556
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Course Overview
Expedition® PCB Introduction presents the workflow and methods of laying out a printed circuit board using the latest version of Mentor Graphics Expedition PCB. From fundamental library concepts, to the PCB editor environment and the PCB layout process, you will gain hands-on experience in integrating a source schematic, placing and routing the board and outputting the fabrication data.
Hands-on lab exercises help reinforce lecture and discussion topics, and provide you with extensive tool usage experience under the guidance of our industry expert instructors.
You will learn how to
- Create Padstacks, Cell (footprint) and Part (PDB) definitions, and build intelligence into components.
- Create a Layout Template.
- Start a PCB Layout by integrating with a schematic design.
- Define Board Geometry
- Place parts, swap pins & gates and back annotate.
- Verify the Layout with on-line and batch Design Rule Checking
- Utilize the Constraint Editor System™ (CES) to define layout and routing constraints
- Route, using both manual/interactive and automatic tools.
- Add test points
- Generate Plane data
- Finalize the Silkscreen
- Generate Gerber Data
- Generate Drill Data
- Dimension and Document the Layout
Hands-on Labs
Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience using Expedition PCB software. Hands-on lab topics include:
- Library Overview
- Creating Padstacks, Cells, Parts, and Layout Templates
- PCB Editor Overview
- Starting a PCB Layout
- Defining Board Geometry
- Placing Parts
- Constraint Editor System
- Verifying the Layout
- Routing
- Adding test points
- Generating Planes
- Finalizing the Silkscreen
- Generating Gerber Data
- Generating Drill Data
- Dimensioning the design
- Creating drawings
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with concepts of PCB technology.
- Schematic Capture knowledge preferred.
- Familiarity with Windows operation system.