An Electromechanical Approach to a Printed Circuit Board Design Course

Author

Dankovic, Danijel ; Vracar, Ljubomir ; Prijic, Aneta ; Prijic, Zoran

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electron. Eng., Univ. of Nis, Niš, Serbia

Volume

56

Issue

4

fYear

2013

fDate

Nov. 2013

Firstpage

470

Lastpage

477

Abstract

This paper describes a printed circuit board (PCB) design course based on electromechanical workflow. The course relies on the premise that a PCB is an integral component of any electronic apparatus, along with its other electromechanical and mechanical components. To emphasize this to students, electrical and mechanical computer-aided design tools are used in synergy. The course content is described in detail, and the design workflow is illustrated, using a project to design a data acquisition instrument as an example.

Keywords

circuit CAD; data acquisition; educational courses; electronic engineering education; printed circuit design; data acquisition instrument; design workflow; electromechanical components; electromechanical workflow; electronic computer-aided design; mechanical computer-aided design; printed circuit board design course; Assembly; Connectors; Design automation; Instruments; Integrated circuit modeling; Layout; Solid modeling; 3-D modeling; electrical computer-aided design (ECAD); mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD); printed circuit board (PCB) design;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TE.2013.2257784

Filename

6507652