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The Pads Logic Training class will teach you the workflow of creating a design.
You will be guided through the steps necessary to capture schematics. Course highlights include
generating electrical components, adding/updating parts, generating netlists, generating reports
(BOM), and interfacing with PowerPCB.
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Detailed lab exercises help reinforce what is discussed during the lectures and provide
you with extensive tool usage experience under the guidance of our industry expert instructors.
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What will you learn?
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• Customize and work with the Pads Logic interface
• Create 2D Lines and Text
• Create Parts Types, Gate Decals, Terminals, Connectors and Off Page symbols
• Capture a schematic using parts, connections and busses
• Prepare the PCB Layer Stackup and Design Rules
• Create Netlists, Report Files, Printing Plots and ECO Files
• Use the OLE Interface to Pass Netlists and Cross Probe with Pads Layout
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Hands-On Labs - Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience
under the guidance of our expert instructors. Hands-on lab topics include:
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• Navigating the Interface
• Creating and Modifying Drafting Items
• Creating Libraries and Library Objects
• Designing a two-page Schematic
• Setting Board Properties
• Outputting Netlists and Plots
• Cross probing - Pads Layout integration
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Who should attend?
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• Electrical Engineers new to Pads Logic software
• PCB designers that need to understand the front end of the design process using Pads Logic
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Prerequisties
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• An understanding of electrical CAD
• Basic Microsoft Windows Skills
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Key Topics
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• User Interface
• Mouse Functions and the Main Toolbar
• The Status Window and Toolbars
• Design Preferences and Display Colors
• File Management
• Modeless Commands
• Libraries
• The library structure
• Using the Library Manager
• Library List
• Searching Libraries
• Creating Part Types
• Using the CAE Decal Editor
• Creating a New Library
• Create an IC Decal and Part Type
• Using the CAE Decal Wizard
• Drafting
• The Drafting Toolbar
• Adding Text
• Creating 2D Lines
• Design Preparation
• Design rules – Hierarchy structure, rules interface, Default rules and extended rules option, Clearance, Routing and High Speed rule categories, Conditional rules and printing rule reports
• Board layer preparation – number of layers, naming, routing and plane types, assigning nets to planes, routing direction, increasing and decreasing layers and documenting physical board make-up
• Designing a Schematic
• Printing and Documentation
• Print/Plot Schematics
• Report Files
• Bill of Materials Setup
• Creating a Netlist
• OLE
• Object Linking and Embedding
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