Demonstrate workflows used in circuit board design
Stages:
Deciding and exploring a software to design
Design with all software tools.
Testing
This assignment is my fisrt door for me on building and do something in electronics feild from scratch, Drawing a circuit is very insightful and a great experience for me.
It wasn't hard to decide which software i gonna use in this beacuse Eagle is the best for me, It has a user friendly interface, Easy to fine a tutorials and also all my colleages use it, So i chose it
You can go through this tutorial, It was very helpful to me
I chose to made my final project circuit in this assignment, So that what you gonna find here in the end.
From "Add part" open the list of components(little arrow beside the botton opens the recent components opened), Also you can search for a specific component(But make sure iy's the exact name in the list if not won't appear in search results.
Select "Net" to start connect the components togather"
Add more, Connect more and make sure from pollarity for each part (resistor dosen't has polarity but other components have, So stay focus on this)
After finishing your circuit connections, check by looking for all connection, Polarity (as we said before) and make sure nothing forgotten, Then let's move to another view from this up left botton from Schematic view to Board view.
Usually you will find a very messay order for the components, So organize them as much you can based on the connections between components and your general vission for the final result.
For example here in organizing i've put the resistor and capasitor which connected to microcontroller besid the pins will connect, the jack plug and poer plug in the edge of the circuit.
Then select the width of paths i will connect the components with, from 6mill to more than 100 mill( based on the size of the whole circuit, Components size and the cutting tool you can use in the fabrication
"route airwirw" botton use it to draw the connections as you want, or use Auto routing(but from my humble experience in this and some recommendations from my colleages, Auto routing isn't good enogh to get you the best result you need)
I can tell you a small tips for routing but i see it's very important:Start with connecting everything connected except VCC and ground, Leave then to the end beacuse they made alot of confusion in connections if you started with
Now lets test the paths if it will work will or we need to adjust anything of route or the width.
Set the width you use, Tool width you will use, Then let's test.
Be careful from overlapped paths
Open layers management list, Hide and appear layers to get the result of only traces and nodes appear, Then press OK.Emporting the circuit picture to implement
Make monochromatic(black&white), 500dpi and window to capture only the window view you open
