TABLE OF CONTENTS Now that we have covered the construction of a PCB and know PCB Editor's role in it, we go through a simple design example so that you get a feel for the overall design process. This simple example sets the stage for Chapter 3, in which we dig deeper into the details of the process and learn more about PCB Editor itself and the PCB Design Examples.
This section illustrates the basic procedure for generating a schematic in Capture and converting the schematic to a board design in PCB Editor. The basic procedure is as follows:
Start Capture and set up a PCB project using the PC Board wizard.
Make a circuit schematic using OrCAD Capture.
Use Capture to generate a PCB Editor netlist and automatically start PCB Editor and open the project as a .brd file.
Make a board outline.
Position the parts within the board outline.
Route the board.
Generate manufacturing data files.
If you do not have a full version of OrCAD, you can go to the OrCAD Web site and download the latest demo. If you are using an older version of PCB Editor, most of the following information in this book still applies, but some of the dialog boxes and menu items may be different.
Before you make a PCB layout, you need to have a circuit to lay out. You use Capture to make the schematic, so the first...
