Duration: 3 Half Days
Pricing: $1,050 USD
Course Part Number: 220191
Contact us for details about training at your site Course Overview
The PADS Logic webcast will teach you the workflow of creating a design. You will be guided through the steps necessary to capture schematics. Course highlights include generating electrical components, adding/updating parts, generating netlists, generating reports (BOM), and interfacing with PADS Layout.
One to two hours of lecture are followed by independant lab exercises to help reinforce what is discussed during the lectures and provide you with extensive tool usage experience under the guidance of our industry expert instructors. See FAQ's.
You will learn how to
- Customize and work with the PADS Logic interface
- Create 2D Lines and Text
- Create Parts Types, Gate Decals, Terminals, Connectors and Off Page symbols
- Capture a schematic using parts, connections and busses
- Prepare the PCB Layer Stackup and Design Rules
- Create Netlists, Report Files, Printing Plots and ECO Files
- Use the OLE Interface to Pass Netlists and Cross Probe with PADS Layout
Hands-On Labs
Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience under the guidance of our expert instructors. Hands-on lab topics include:
- Navigating the Interface
- Creating and Modifying Drafting Items
- Creating Libraries and Library Objects
- Designing a two-page Schematic
- Setting Board Properties
- Outputting Netlists and Plots
- Cross probing – PADS Layout integration
Audience
- Electrical Engineers new to PADS Logic software
- PCB designers that need to understand the front end of the design process using PADS Logic
Prerequisites
- An understanding of electrical CAD
- Basic Microsoft Windows skills
Key Topics
Session 1 (appx 2 hours lecture)
User Interface
- Toolbars
- Status Window
- Selection Filter
- Project Explorer
- Output Window
- Mouse Operations and Keyboard Commands
- Global, Design, Text Tab, and Line Width Tab Options
- Selection Modes
- Modeless Commands
- Display Colors
- Fonts Display
- File Management
Drafting
- Adding Text
- Creating 2D Lines
- Combining Lines and Text
- 2D Library Items
Session 2 (approx 2 hour lecture)
Library
- Library Structure
- Library Manager
- Manage Library List
- Searching the Libraries
- Updating from Library
- Creating Parts
- Part Editor Main Toolbar
- Edit Electrical
- New Part Type
- Edit Gate Decal
- Pin Decals
- Adding Terminals
- Off-page Decals
Schematic Generation
- Adding Parts
- Add Sheets
- Adding Connections
- Floating Connections
- Hierarchical Design
- Busses
Session 3 (approx 2 hour lecture)
Setup and Constraints
- Layer Setup
- Rules Hierarchy
- Design Rules Main Interface
- Rule Categories
- Default Clearance Rules
- Default Routing Rules
- Routing Rules
- Non-default Markers
- Conditional Rules
- Rules Report
Output Generation
- Creating a Netlist
- Reports
- Bill of Materials
- Managing Basic Scripts
- Plotting Output
- Customizing Plot for Pen Plotting
- Customize Plot for Photo Plotting
- ECO
Using OLE and Cross-Probing
- OLE in PADS Logic
- Linking and Embedding Objects in PADS Logic
- OLE Cross-Probing with PADS Layout
- OLE Cross-Probing with PADS Router
