Re: PCB DESIGN.


G Patel wrote:
HOW CAN I DESIGN printed circuit board at home?
ANY Easy method..

Hmmm .... "easy method" is highly subjective. For small designs, most
of the demo or student versions of commercial products will do the job
- they support most Microsoft systems well. Or consider
http://www.cadsoft.de/ eagle which is supported by many shops as well.

My personal preference, which has been working well for many years now,
is PCB ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcb ) which has a fairly large
library of parts and it's gerber output will work for most pcb
fabrication shops. The current GTK version has some gross slowness, so
compile for lesstif or use the older 050315 version under Xaw which is
fully featured, fast and stable.

you might want to explore using tools from gEDA which includes PCB.
I've helped some others install gEDA to their linux systems from
steve's iso:

http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/

this article describes PCB on linux and homebrew boards:

http://lwn.net/2000/features/pcb/

I'd suggest using a commercial board house for double sided and
multilayer designs, as they will plate thru the holes and provide
solder mask for not much more. I have several favorties for simple
boards, for double sided you will find the guys at:

http://olimex.com/pcb/index.html

easy to deal with, and they will allow you to place several designs on
a single panel without additional charge ... most other shops restrict
you to one design, one board, which can triple your costs for several
projects all at once ... or prevent a homebrew club or roommates from
sharing the setup charges for a minimum run.

if you want to make simple single or double sided boards at home for
fun, and you have a laser printer available, the blue film transfers
work well:

http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/pcbs.html
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/vk3yng/pcb/making_pcbs.htm
http://www.techniks.com/index.htm
http://www.robotroom.com/PCB.html

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