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General overview of PCB design software

Printed circuit boards{Printed circuit boards}, also known as printed circuit boards, are providers of electrical connections for electronic components.
Printed circuit boards are often represented by "PCB", but cannot be called "PCB boards".
Its development has a history of more than 100 years; its design is mainly layout design; the main advantage of using circuit boards is to greatly reduce wiring and assembly errors, and improve the level of automation and production labor.
According to the number of circuit boards, it can be divided into single-sided boards, double-sided boards, four-layer boards, six-layer boards and other multilayer circuit boards.
Since the printed circuit board is not a general terminal product, the definition of the name is slightly confusing. For example, the motherboard used in personal computers is called the main board, and cannot be directly called the circuit board. Although there are circuit boards in the main board, They are not the same, so when evaluating the industry, the two are related but cannot be said to be the same. Another example: because there are integrated circuit components mounted on the circuit board, the news media call it an IC board, but in fact it is not equivalent to a printed circuit board. We usually say that the printed circuit board refers to the bare board-that is, the circuit board without upper components.

Whether in the SMT processing industry, in the PCBA processing industry, or even in the entire electronic processing industry, circuit board design is also called PCB design, because the full name of the circuit board in English is Printed circuit board, abbreviated as PCB, so Circuit board design is also called PCB design; circuit board design, from the beginning of manual drawing to the larger component library, powerful automatic layout and other functions, has become more and more convenient for our engineers to carry out circuit board design work.

A qualified electronic engineer, engaged in PCB design work, must master more than one type of circuit board design software. We have been committed to the teaching of PCB software, and strive to provide all kinds of circuit board design software for everyone who is ready to enter the electronics industry Teaching materials, now we have launched PCB software video tutorials, including two series of CAM350 video tutorials and Protel 99se video tutorials.

The development of the circuit board design work is a very long work, because when we are doing the circuit board design, we must choose a suitable circuit board design work. This article on our PCB resource network will give you Introduce the tools of circuit board design. When you choose, see which one is right for you. Of course, in your daily use, it is necessary to choose different circuit board design software for different tasks. No matter what kind of circuit board design software, it is not perfect. Guan Jian is a tool for everyone to find a way to collaborate on their own, which can quickly and easily complete their own circuit board design work.

The design of the circuit board can be divided into several parts specifically, namely schematic design, PCB design, circuit simulation, CAM engineering software, copy board software, etc. In this article, we mainly talk about circuit board design software, referring to the two parts of schematic design and PCB design.

Circuit board design software generally includes two major modules: schematic design and PCB design. The mainstream and powerful circuit board design software even includes the above modules. Now the mainstream circuit board design software is Protel, OrCAD, Viewlogic, PowerPCB, Cadence PSD, MentorGraphices Expedition PCB, Zuken CadStart, Winboard/Windraft/Ivex-SPICE, PCB Studio, TANGO, PCBWizard (PCB production software package for LiveWire), ultiBOARD7 (PCB production software package for multiSIM2001), etc. Wait.