KiCAD

KiCAD is a complete environment for the design of electronic circuitry from schematic drawing, through netlisting, to layout design and Gerber processing for the manufacture of printed circuit boards.

This course requires a working knowledge of electronic circuitry, components, etc, and is primarily intended for those wishing to be able to design and prototype electronic assemblies from scratch.

Although the KiCAD package has considerable documentation to assist the learning process, however, with hands-on guided usage, the required skills can be acquired more rapidly.

• * How to use the schematic editor to draw circuit diagrams.
• * How to use the layout editor to design PCBs.
• * How to use symbol and component libraries.
• * The operation of netlisting for the transfer of schmatic to layout.
• * Assigning and referencing components.
• * Using netlisted components during the layout phase.
• * How to draw electronic symbols and create libraries.
• * 3D visualisation of PCBs.
• * Using multiple schematic sheets on one layout.
• * Creating of Gerber files for manufacture.