📘✨ PCB Designing with EasyEDA – Course Outline

🟢 Module 1: Introduction to PCB Designing

• 🔌 What is PCB? Types (Single layer, Double layer, Multilayer, Flexible)
  
  

• 🛠️ Real-world applications of PCBs
  
  

• ✅ Advantages of PCB over breadboard/wiring
  
  

• 🌐 Overview of EasyEDA (Web + Desktop)

🟠 Module 2: Basics of Electronics for PCB Design

• 📐 Understanding schematics (symbols, nets, ground, VCC, etc.)
  
  

• 🔋 Basic electronic components (Resistors, Capacitors, Diodes, LEDs, Switches, Relays, ICs, Connectors)
  
  

• ⚡ Power supply basics (Battery, Regulators, Voltage levels)
  
  

• 📄 Reading datasheets (importance in PCB design)

🔵 Module 3: EasyEDA Environment Setup

• 👤 Creating an account & project in EasyEDA
  
  

• 🖥️ EasyEDA interface walkthrough (schematic editor, PCB editor, libraries)
  
  

• 📦 Importing and managing components
  
  

• 🗂️ Using the LCSC Component Library

🟣 Module 4: Schematic Design

• 🧩 Placing components on schematic editor
  
  

• 🔗 Wiring (nets, bus, ground planes)
  
  

• 📝 Assigning values & footprints
  
  

• 🛡️ Checking ERC (Electrical Rule Check)
  
  

• 🗂️ Hierarchical schematic design (for complex circuits)

🟡 Module 5: PCB Layout Design

• 📥 Importing schematic to PCB editor
  
  

• 📑 Understanding PCB layers (Top, Bottom, Silkscreen, Solder Mask)
  
  

• 🎯 Placement of components (guidelines & tips)
  
  

• ✍️ Manual vs Auto-routing
  
  

• 📏 Trace width calculation (for power & signals)
  
  

• 🌐 Ground plane & power plane design
  
  

• ✅ Design Rule Check (DRC)

🔴 Module 6: Advanced PCB Concepts

• 🕳️ Via types (through-hole, blind, buried)
  
  

• 📡 Signal integrity (high-speed traces, differential pairs)
  
  

• ⚡ EMI/EMC considerations
  
  

• 🔥 Thermal management (heat sinks, copper pours, thermal relief)
  
  

• 📚 Multi-layer PCB design (4-layer, 6-layer overview)

🟢 Module 7: Design for Manufacturing (DFM)

• 📋 PCB stack-up basics
  
  

• 📂 Gerber files generation
  
  

• 📑 BOM (Bill of Materials) preparation
  
  

• ⚙️ Pick and Place file
  
  

• 🧩 Panelization (multiple PCBs in one board)

🟠 Module 8: Simulation & Testing

• 🧪 Circuit simulation in EasyEDA (DC/AC analysis, transient analysis)
  
  

• 🎛️ Signal testing & debugging before fabrication
  
  

• 💡 Best practices to minimize design errors

🔵 Module 9: Fabrication Process

• 🚀 Uploading Gerber to JLCPCB (or others)
  
  

• 🏭 PCB manufacturing process (etching, drilling, plating, solder mask, silkscreen)
  
  

• 📏 Choosing PCB thickness, copper weight, solder mask colors
  
  

• 💰 Cost optimization tips

🟣 Module 10: Assembly & Soldering

• 🔧 SMD vs Through-hole assembly
  
  

• 🪛 Soldering basics (hand soldering, reflow, wave soldering)
  
  

• ⚠️ Common soldering issues & troubleshooting
  
  

• 🔋 First power-up & testing checklist

🟡 Module 11: Real-Life Projects

• 💡 Simple LED blink circuit
  
  

• 🔋 Power supply PCB
  
  

• 🤖 Arduino Nano shield design
  
  

• 🌐 IoT sensor PCB (ESP32/ESP8266 based)
  
  

• 🛠️ Mini product design workflow

🔴 Module 12: Final Wrap-Up

• 🚫 PCB design mistakes to avoid
  
  

• 📏 Industry standards (IPC rules)
  
  

• 👨‍💻 Job opportunities & freelancing in PCB design
  
  

• 📈 Next steps: moving from EasyEDA to Altium / KiCad