Course Description
PADS
PADS Professional
The PADS Professional Flow course teaches you the basic workflow of Library creation and management, Schematic capture design, and PCB layout in the PADS Professional environment. The flow focus of this course is to take you through the three different flows of the PCB. You are guided through the steps necessary to start a new Central Library, copy elements between libraries, create partitions, and create user-defined text properties, to learn the initial steps in working with PADS Designer. And finally designing a printed circuit board using the PADS Pro Layout. Course highlights include symbol creation, part creation, packaging design, placing parts, routing connections, generating reports, and generating Gerber outputs.
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.
Prerequisites
- A basic understanding of the PCB design process
- Familiarity with Windows operating systems
PRIMARY COURSE TOPICS
What You’ll Learn
- Customize and work with the PADS Professional interface
- Create Symbols, Cells, and Parts using PADS Library Tools
- Add Components and Library Symbols
- Add Nets and Power Nets
- Create a Multi-level Hierarchy Schematic
- Create Board Outlines, Keepouts, and 2D Line items
- Create Parts Types, PCB Decals, and Pad Stacks
- Perform Project Integration, define the board stack up, and set design rules
- Place parts manually and use cross-probing capabilities
- Route a design using manual/interactive routing and editing tools
- Create copper shapes and plane areas
- Verify the design
- Generate Gerber Data
Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience using the PADS Professional software. Hands-on lab topics include:
- Using Library Tools
- Creating Symbols, Cells, and Parts
- Create Layout Templates
- Starting a new schematic project
- Adding Components and Nets
- Hierarchy Design
- Project Integration with Designer
- Design Documentation
- Using the PCB Editor and Display Control
- Defining the Layer Stackup
- Creating and Modifying Drafting Items
- Placing Parts
- Verifying the Layout
- Setting Routing Constraints
- Routing a Design
- Generating Planes
- Creating Silkscreens
- Generating Gerber and Output Documents