Chapter 5 addresses the mechanical aspect of PCB design—design for manufacturability
(DFM). The chapter explains where parts should be placed on the board, how far apart, and in
what orientation from a manufacturing perspective. OrCAD Layout’s design rule checker is
then considered relative to the manufacturing concepts and IPC’s courtyard concepts. To aid
in understanding the design issues, manufacturing processes such as refl ow and wave solder-
ing, pick-and-place assembly, and thermal management are discussed. The information is then
used as a guide in designing plated through-holes, surface-mount lands, and Layout footprints
in general. Tables summarize the information and serve as a design guide during footprint
design and PCB layout.
Chapter 6 addresses the electrical aspect of PCB design. There are several good references
available on signal integrity, electromagnetic interference, and electromagnetic compatibility.
Chapter 6 provides an overview of those topics and applies them directly to PCB design.
Topics such as loop inductance, ground bounce, ground planes, characteristic impedance,
refl ections, and ringing are discussed. The idea of “the unseen schematic” (the PCB layout)
and its role in circuit operation on the PCB is introduced. Look-up tables and equations are
provided to determine required trace widths for current handling and impedance as well as
required trace spacing for high-voltage designs and high-frequency designs. Various layer
stack-up topographies for analog, digital, and mixed-signal applications are also described.
The design examples in Chap. 9 demonstrate how to apply the layer stack-ups described in
this chapter.
Chapter 7 explains how to construct Capture parts using the Capture Library Manager and
Part Editor and the PSpice Model Editor. Heterogeneous and homogeneous parts are devel-
oped in examples using four different methods. Different methods are used depending on
whether a part will be used for simple schematic entry, design projects intended for PCB
layout, PSpice simulations, or all of the above. The chapter also demonstrates how to attach
PSpice models to Capture’s schematic parts using PSpice models downloaded from the Inter-
net and basic PSpice models developed from functional Capture projects. The Capture parts
can then be used for both PSpice simulations and PCB layout as demonstrated in Chap. 9.
Detailed coverage of padstacks and footprints is covered in Chap. 8. The chapter intro-
duces the Layout Library Manager, Layout’s footprint naming conventions, and the basic
composition of a footprint. Then a detailed description of the padstack (as it relates to PCB
manufacturing described in Chaps. 1 and 5) is given, as it is the foundation of both footprint
design and PCB routing. Design examples are provided to demonstrate how to design discrete
through-hole and surface-mount devices and how to use the pad array generator to design
footprints for pin grid arrays and ball grid arrays with dogbone fanouts included with the
footprint.
Chapter 9 provides four PCB design examples that use the material covered in the previ-
ous eight chapters. The fi rst example is a simple analog design using a single op-amp. The
design shows how to set up multiple plane layers for positive and negative power supplies
and ground. The design also demonstrates several key concepts in Capture, such as how to
connect global nets, how to assign footprints, how to perform design rule checks, how to
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