- What is this course about
- Installing & Examples
- Starting a project, Creating Schematic Symbol
- Creating Footprint
- Adding 3D model to footprint
- Assigning Footprint to Symbol, Updating Symbol
- Drawing Schematic
- Importing Schematic into PCB and Placement
- Doing Layout
- Rules & Settings
- 3D model, Updating Footprint, Assembly layer
- DRC Check
- Generating outputs: Schematic PDF, Gerbers, Drill File
- Generating outputs: Assembly Drawing, Pick & Place, BOM
- Thank you
What you'll learn
- By the end of this course students will design a simple board and will get an idea about how KiCad works.
Description
KiCad is a very popular free CAD software to draw schematic and do PCB Layout. This course will help you to learn more about KiCad.
You will learn how to
Draw schematic
Create schematic symbol and footprint
Route a simple PCB
Generate documents to manufacture PCB
Goal of this course
The main goal of this course is to go through a board design process (Schematic + Libraries + PCB + Outputs) to demonstrate and practice all the essential KiCad features which can be then used to create more complex boards.
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About the instructors
- 4.67 Calificación
- 45740 Estudiantes
- 5 Cursos
Robert Feranec
Motherboard designer, Youtuber, Lecturer
Robert has designed motherboards based on Intel, AMD, VIA processors. His Youtube hardware design videos have over 7 million views. Robert also teaches Schematic Design and PCB Layout at FEDEVEL Academy.
Other Robert's courses
- Advanced PCB Layout (includes high speed layout)
- Advanced Hardware Design (Schematic & PCB Design Course)
- Learn Altium Essentials (Switching Power Supply Design Course)
- Learn the Essentials of creating uBoot, Linux and YOCTO
- Learn OrCAD & Allegro Essentials
Open Source Hardware Development
All Robert's courses are based on real projects. This way, everyone has an opportunity to practice and learn on real boards. Robert has lead and supported development of several Open Source boards used in his courses:
- 28Pins: Based on Arduino Project
- iMX6Rex: Boards based on iMX6 1.2GHz ARM CPU
- OpenRexKit: Education kit to learn programming and electronics
Robert has skills and experience in following areas (10+ years)
- electronic product hardware development (from idea to product)
- schematic design & PCB layout (including high speed design)
- hardware debugging, assembling, verification and testing
- processor and microcontroller board design (x86, MIPS, ARM …) based on Intel, VIA, AMD, Texas Instruments, Freescale, NXP, Qualcomm, Atmel, Microchip, ST ... including Linux and Windows CE compilation, driver modification, microcontroller firmware programming
- interfaces and peripherals: DDR3, DDR2, DDR, FSB, PCI Express, Gb Ethernet, SATA, PCI, ITP, GSM, GPS, CF, PCMCIA, IDE, ISA, LVDS, SDVO, RGB, Composite TV, VGA, HDMI USB, SD, PS2 Keyboard, Mouse, Audio, Touchscreen, JTAG, RS485, CAN, RS232, SPI, I2C, ISDN, PSTN, WiFi, miniPCI, PCIE minicards, COM Express, ZigBee, CPLD, FPGA designs (Xilinx, Altera ...)
- Software: Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro (Orcad, Spectra ...), PADS, Microsoft Visual C++, Delphi, Xilinx ISE, ispLEVER, AVR Studio ...
- programming languages C/C++, VHDL, ABEL, Assemblers, Html, Perl, PHP ...
- design for mass production / cost effective solutions
- EMC design, testing and measurement
Student feedback
Course Rating
Reviews
exellent
Very nice by Rober Fernac
I would HIGHLY recommend this course!! I believe there will be at least one lesson for everyone to learn from this course. This course was very efficient. It covered basic through more advanced topics. There is a lot of knowledge that the presenter has which is beyond the scope of a beginner, but it is easy to follow (specifically, knowing which layer does what and how/where to place components on each layer seems like industry knowledge). There also is no mention on how to search the library for components since KiCad has a very extensive library of existing components. Additionally, this is written for a different version of KiCad that the most current version of 7 (at least at the time of reviewing this class). The knowledge is presented very well, it is easy to follow his examples, and I would feel confident creating a PCB and shipping it to get created at a board shop after watching this tutorial.
great for those who want to start with kicad
Clear explanation and great!!!