KiCAD PCB Design For Embedded Systems & Electronics Projects

Learn KiCAD For PCB Circuit Design & Create Your Own PCB Boards

4.45 (124 reviews)

Udemy

platform

English

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Hardware

What you will learn

KiCAD 5.1

Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design With KiCAD

PCB Design Workflow (Methodology)

Documentation For HW Requirements & TLD

From Idea or Requirement To Actual PCB Product

BOM Selection Process

Schematic Design & Capture

Assigning Footprints To Symbol Parts

PCB Layout Editing & Routing

Gerber Output Files Generation For Fabrication

Generating SMT Files For Automated PCB Assembly

Project-Based Course (Flasher LED Board, Create Your Own Embedded Dev. Board, and a USB-Powered Device)

Why take this course?

This course will help you to know the basics of KiCAD and how to use it as a tool for PCB design projects. And it'll also teach you how to formulate a project/product idea and document it in such a way that it becomes easier for you to plan and design each part of the complete system.

And ultimately, help you develop a systematic way to approach PCB hardware design projects. Both as a hobbyist or as an engineering student. This course is Project-Based. You'll learn KiCAD by doing practical project examples through this course.

Design 3 PCB Boards and Learn The Essentials of KiCAD

Simple LED Flasher Board
PIC18F-Based Development Board
STM32-Based USB-Powered LED Controller Board

Course's Contents and Overview

The course starts with an introduction to printed circuit boards (PCB) technology. And then shifts the attention to PCB design CAD software tools and mainly focusing on KiCAD which is the main topic of this course. Then, you'll get introduced to KiCAD tools for schematic capture and PCB layout editing through a very basic example board.

Afterward, I'll teach you a very intuitive PCB design methodology to get any project done just in 10 actionable steps. And we'll be sticking to this methodology for all the project examples we'll be doing thereafter.

Then, the last 3 sections will be dedicated to the 3 projects for this course. And in each one of them, we'll be doing:

HW Req. Statement
Schematic Design
Schematic Capture
ERC Check
Footprints Assignment
PCB Layout & Routing
DRC Check
Generating Fab.-Ready Output Files (Gerber)
Generating BOM File
Generating POS For SMT services

You'll learn when and how to do each step in detail through this course and three times in 3 different projects. Just to make sure you've got a very good understanding and vision for the PCB design workflow.

Enjoy The Course!

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Reviews

Kenneth

December 8, 2022

I know a bit about designing PCBs and have made many in the past manually, using hand drawn artwork. So far, the author has filled in what holes I had in my knowledge as to what the elements of modern PCBs are.

Daniel

September 10, 2022

I'm a beginner with no prior experience designing PCBs. This course does a fair job at introducing the concepts of PCB design with KiCad. Instructor can be difficult to understand sometimes but the course still offers a lot of value. I like the instructor's design methodology. It's already proven helpful. Overall I'm happy I bought this course.

Aryaman

August 5, 2022

I wasn't able to find the bonus lecture explanation at the end. In the second project, the annotations get covered so, I had difficulty confirming the designator values for my components and the ones shown in the video. Otherwise, it was a great course and has prepared me to start tinkering with STM32 hardware.

Sael

October 20, 2021

It was a great course! Starts on basics concepts. It is an Introductory course to Kicad with a lot of good content.

John

October 11, 2021

There is little response from the teacher to students enquiries. He is difficult to understand, but I manage. I would check out other available courses in KiCAD.

Nasrulla

June 15, 2021

Cons:- 1. Using Multiple Sheets 2. Creating Footprints 3. Bonus Lecturers Missing Pros - 1. Easy Flow 2. Nice Explanation 3. We will learn to design basic boards with existing library 4. Logo Creation

Gerrit

January 3, 2021

I chose this course because the presenter of the other favoured course could not even pronounce KiCAD ("kikkedd", so something), so what hope was there learning something from that guy? This course runs at a quick pace without getting bored, which is what I wanted. By the end I felt I knew enough to design a complex board, which I managed to do. The presenter, however, is not fluent in English and stridently mumbles and stutters along with appalling grammar, clichés and all, and this does become a real strain to have to put up with after a while. The mouse movements and screen clicks could have been highlighted, as I frequently needed to rewind to see what he clicked, or typed, or having to decipher what he said he clicked or typed. And what is it with the constant dribbling sound of a leaky toilet cistern in the background? Unfortunately, he does not address the many PCB design issues considerations, e.g. capacitance between tracks, other than saying that "it's bad", or resistance of long tracks, which was explained in a protracted and cringe worthy way. The fact that one is designing PCBs should surely assume that one is familiar with basic electrical concepts?

Francisco