Expedition PCB Introduction

Course Highlights

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

• 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