Printed Circuit Board Fabrication
Printed Circuit Board Fabrication
Printed Circuit Board Fabrication
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SOON CHIN FHONG
IGNATIUS AGUNG WIBOWO
PENERBIT UTHM
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CONTENTS
Preface ix
Acknowledgment xiii
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1
What is Printed Circuit Board? 2
Printed Circuit Board Option 5
PCB CAD Software 5
PCB Layout 6
The EAGLE Software 9
System Requirements for EAGLE Software 10
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Wiring the Power Supply and Ground 64
Wiring the Defaults Wires 67
Electrical Rule Check (ERC) and Troubleshooting 68
Display Control of the PCB Layout 73
Auto Route Board 78
PCB Layout Touch Up 86
Silk Screen Production 96
Parts List Generation 98
Summary 100
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Summary 148
Biblography 199
Index 201
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PREFACE
Printed Circuit Board Making Using Eagle was initiated with the intention
to help the undergraduate student to possess a skill in fabricating printed
circuit board for their graduation project through a CAD tool known as
Eagle. Indeed, the skill requirement is not just restricted to undergraduate
students, all technical school and college students who are doing an
electronic or electrical course must have the experience in producing a
printed circuit board. This book is also written to meet the needs of the
electronic hobbyist, perhaps, are interested to overcome the complexity
problem in electronic design by using Eagle as a tool. A major portion of
this book is practically oriented, and it has been carefully written in such a
way that step by step guidance is provided to straighten the learning path.
It makes your acquisition of a CAD tool skill so much easier at the end of
the day!
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because you will be utilizing a lot of the tools from this chapter. When you
are familiar with the graphic tools, assessing the icon is so much faster.
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To prepare the data for an automated PCB fabrication, Eagle provides the
facility to convert the board file into Gerber data which is understandable
by the photoplotter and Numerical Control drill machine. You will explore
the manufacturing data preparation steps in Chapter 8.
In the final chapter of this book, Chapter 9, you will have the opportunity to
explore the easy PCB fabrication technique in a very simple and low cost
approach. The whole process spanning from creating a transfer, manual
etching process to the preparing of PCB for component insertion will be
illustrated with lots of graphics.
Follow the instructions of the book should enable you to acquire the skill
in creating a useful printed circuit board with Eagle. Enjoy your learning
and all the best to you!
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acknowledgement
This is our combined effort in writing the second book. A high degree of
commitment has been put into it.
The drive of writing this book comes from our dear graduates Nicholas
Tan Jin Sheng and Low Si Khim and a lot of other students who have used
Eagle to fabricate the PIC microcontroller programmer and adopted Easy
PCB fabrication technique in their undergraduate project development.
The expression of many other students’ need to pick up CAD skill in PCB
design has made this book to be possible. To our colleague, Madam Cheng
Leong Yeok who has shown interest in finding out Eagle’s capability from
us, your enquiries has turned into motivation for us to carry on.
We are grateful to Mr. Khairul Bin Hj. Nani, our technician in the PCB
Fabrication laboratory of Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia who has
been very helpful in preparing tools and facility for the graphic production
in this book. We thank Mr. Mohd Jais Bin Che Soh and Mr. Mahmod bin
Munajat who has generously shared their knowledge with us during our
work in Advance PCB Laboratory.
We are also indebted to our Dean from Faculty of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering, Prof. Ir. Dr. Zainal Abidin Bin Ahmad, our department heads
Associate Prof. Siti Hawa Bt Ruslan and Associate Prof. Dr. Zainal Bin
Alam bin Haron. Their continuous support and encouragement are very
valuable and meaningful to us.
Last but not least, to our beloved family who has supported us
unreservedly.
Thank you very much!
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