A Basic Introduction for Designing a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) with EAGLE eCAD/CAM Software

Abstract

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are ubiquitous elements of modern electronic systems. In DoD research, PCBs play a vital role in creating reliable, economic, and deterministic circuits, apart from their bread-board or perf-board counterparts. The art of transitioning a circuit's schematic to a physical manufacturable board can be challenging, but electrical computer-aided design (eCAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software, such as the Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor (EAGLE), provides the creator with complete control of the circuit's design and streamlines the PCB fabrication process. This report serves as a general introduction to formulate a custom circuit schematic and two-layer PCB, as well as to process necessary files for design production.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 14, 2020
Accession Number
AD1117857

Entities

People

  • Kenneth Kwashnak

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assembly
  • Circuit Boards
  • Circuits
  • Compilers
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Electrical Circuits
  • Fabrication
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Manufacturing
  • Operating Systems
  • Printed Circuit Boards
  • Printed Circuits
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems