Your cart is empty.
Keep shoppingDesign with KiCad (Basic)
219 students
Design with KiCad (Basic)
Step by Step Tutorial of Electronic Design
Created byMichael Chang
Last updated 10/2023
English
What you'll learn
- General process and steps of electronic products design
- Features of KiCad design software
- How to download, install and setup KiCad as our electronic design tool
- User interface and key function modules of KiCad
- How to create component symbol in KiCad Symbol Editor
- How to create component footprint in KiCad Footprint Edictor
- How to capture schematics with KiCad Schematics Editor and make the schematics beautiful, readable, and error-free
- How to design layout with KiCad PCB Editor and make the layout functional, reliable, and manufacturable
- How to export design documents with KiCad and Plugins of KiCad
- Follow the demonstration to design an electronic project from scratch with KiCad
Explore related topics
Course content
9 sections • 44 lectures • 5h 33m total length
Requirements
- You are expected to have some basic knowledge of electronic physics.
- You are expected to have a computer with “decent” hardware specifications. Windows 10 is preferred as the operating system.
- You are expected to have interest and desire to learn electronics design.
Description
This course is designed for electronic design beginners to learn how to design an electronic project with KiCad as design tool.
At the beginning of the course, it introduces general process and steps of a typical electronic design project. This is important and beneficial to an electronic designer even when you decide to use other EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools in the future.
The main sections of the course focus on designing a simple project with KiCad. The project is a DC/DC step down circuit. The course is not to tell you how to design the DC circuit itself, instead, it will show you step by step of how to design this project with KiCad from nothing to design release. It covers components creation, library management, schematics capture, PCB layout, and design documents export.
In this course, I will not only show you how to design an electronic project in my demonstration, but to provide a “homework” to design a similar project by yourself. In addition, there are some quizzes in the course, which will let you know those important points in some sections.
The course will make you have the ability to design a simple project with KiCad as quick and correctly as possible. Therefore, the course doesn’t cover every corner of KiCad software tool, and it doesn’t have numerous sections and lectures either. Instead, it shows you the most important and necessary skills to complete an electronic design independently.
After this course, you are expected to design relatively simple project by yourself. However, you are NOT expected to gain all the knowledge and skills to design a complicated, multi-layer, high-speed signal board in this course. That needs some more advanced training and practice after learning this course.
Who this course is for:
- Students who major in electronics
- Hobbyists who wish to design their first PCB board
- Entry level electronics engineers who just begin their design career