Design with KiCad (Basic)

Design with KiCad (Basic), available at $74.99, has an average rating of 4.3, with 44 lectures, 6 quizzes, based on 35 reviews, and has 194 subscribers.

You will learn about General process and steps of electronic products design Features of KiCad design software How to download, install and setup KiCad as our electronic design tool User interface and key function modules of KiCad How to create component symbol in KiCad Symbol Editor How to create component footprint in KiCad Footprint Edictor How to capture schematics with KiCad Schematics Editor and make the schematics beautiful, readable, and error-free How to design layout with KiCad PCB Editor and make the layout functional, reliable, and manufacturable How to export design documents with KiCad and Plugins of KiCad Follow the demonstration to design an electronic project from scratch with KiCad This course is ideal for individuals who are Students who major in electronics or Hobbyists who wish to design their first PCB board or Entry level electronics engineers who just begin their design career It is particularly useful for Students who major in electronics or Hobbyists who wish to design their first PCB board or Entry level electronics engineers who just begin their design career.

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Summary

Title: Design with KiCad (Basic)

Price: $74.99

Average Rating: 4.3

Number of Lectures: 44

Number of Quizzes: 6

Number of Published Lectures: 44

Number of Published Quizzes: 6

Number of Curriculum Items: 50

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 50

Original Price: A$29.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

General process and steps of electronic products design
Features of KiCad design software
How to download, install and setup KiCad as our electronic design tool
User interface and key function modules of KiCad
How to create component symbol in KiCad Symbol Editor
How to create component footprint in KiCad Footprint Edictor
How to capture schematics with KiCad Schematics Editor and make the schematics beautiful, readable, and error-free
How to design layout with KiCad PCB Editor and make the layout functional, reliable, and manufacturable
How to export design documents with KiCad and Plugins of KiCad
Follow the demonstration to design an electronic project from scratch with KiCad

Who Should Attend

Students who major in electronics
Hobbyists who wish to design their first PCB board
Entry level electronics engineers who just begin their design career

Target Audiences

Students who major in electronics
Hobbyists who wish to design their first PCB board
Entry level electronics engineers who just begin their design career

This course is designed for electronic design beginners to learn how to design an electronic project with KiCad as design tool.

At the beginning of the course, it introduces general process and steps of a typical electronic design project. This is important and beneficial to an electronic designer even when you decide to use other EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools in the future.

The main sections of the course focus on designing a simple project with KiCad. The project is a DC/DC step down circuit. The course is not to tell you how to design the DC circuit itself, instead, it will show you step by step of how to design this project with KiCad from nothing to design release. It covers components creation, library management, schematics capture, PCB layout, and design documents export.

In this course, I will not only show you how to design an electronic project in my demonstration, but to provide a “homework” to design a similar project by yourself. In addition, there are some quizzes in the course, which will let you know those important points in some sections.

The course will make you have the ability to design a simple project with KiCad as quick and correctly as possible. Therefore, the course doesn’t cover every corner of KiCad software tool, and it doesn’t have numerous sections and lectures either. Instead, it shows you the most important and necessary skills to complete an electronic design independently.

After this course, you are expected to design relatively simple project by yourself. However, you are NOT expected to gain all the knowledge and skills to design a complicated, multi-layer, high-speed signal board in this course. That needs some more advanced training and practice after learning this course.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: About This Course

Lecture 2: Process of Electronics Design

Lecture 3: Why Design with KiCad

Chapter 2: Getting Started with KiCad

Lecture 1: KiCad Download and Setup

Lecture 2: KiCad Project Manager Interface

Lecture 3: KiCad Basic Setup and Configuration

Chapter 3: Design Requirement

Lecture 1: Project Requirements and Plan

Chapter 4: Symbol Creation

Lecture 1: Symbol Editor Introduction

Lecture 2: Create a New Library and a New Symbol

Lecture 3: Add Pins and Graphic Elements in a Symbol

Lecture 4: Add Further Information into Symbol Property

Lecture 5: Create a Symbol for an IC

Lecture 6: Let's Create Symbols

Chapter 5: Footprint Creation

Lecture 1: Footprint Editor Introduction

Lecture 2: Layers and Appearance Manager

Lecture 3: Plan Footprint Creation

Lecture 4: Create a New Library and a New Footprint

Lecture 5: Add 3D Model to Footprint

Lecture 6: Connection between Symbol and Footprint

Lecture 7: Create a Footprint for an IC

Lecture 8: Let's Create Footprints

Chapter 6: Schematic Design

Lecture 1: Structure of KiCad Schematics

Lecture 2: Create a New Project

Lecture 3: Schematics Editor Interface

Lecture 4: Schematics and Drawing Sheet Setup

Lecture 5: Place and Edit Symols

Lecture 6: Add Wires

Lecture 7: Other Things in Schematics Design

Lecture 8: Perform Electrical Rules Check

Lecture 9: Let's Design a Schematic

Chapter 7: PCB Layout Design

Lecture 1: PCB Editor Interface

Lecture 2: PCB Board Setup

Lecture 3: Create Board Outline

Lecture 4: Components Placement

Lecture 5: Route Tracks

Lecture 6: Add Copper Zones

Lecture 7: Final Steps in PCB Design

Lecture 8: Let's Design a PCB

Chapter 8: Exporting Design Documents

Lecture 1: Export Schematics by Printing

Lecture 2: Export Schmatics by Plotting

Lecture 3: Export PCB as PDF

Lecture 4: Release PCB Gerber

Lecture 5: Export BOM

Chapter 9: Final Section

Lecture 1: What is Next …

Instructors

Michael Chang
Electronics Engineer

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