HW106 - An Introduction to High-Speed Digital Design

Wearable Health Sensor Controller Design Course

After this course, you will know how to design your own boards in Cadence OrCAD. This microcontroller design is used as an example to demonstrate the whole process of designing a board. You can follow all the steps based on the video, repeat them and then design your own boards.

This course is perfect for beginners and anyone starting with Cadence OrCAD. Ideal for companies with fresh hires or young engineers. You will get many useful tips about designing an Internet of Things product and using Cadence OrCAD.

Why design an IoT compact board? They are used on almost every modern product, especially wearable technology!

THIS COURSE IS FOR: Beginners, Hobbyists, Students and young Engineers. No previous Cadence OrCAD knowledge is required. 

What will you learn?

It’s a step-by-step commented video that had been captured throughout the whole mixed-signal high-speed IoT design process. Even if you have never designed a board before, just by repeating all the steps in the video, by the end of this course you will design a USB-C controller board for an IoT device. When you design the board from this course, you will have all the most important knowledge about using Cadence OrCAD, you can continue all by yourself on your own projects and design your own boards.

• Starting a new project
  (Creating project, adding schematic pages, creating schematic symbol library)

• Creating schematic symbols
  (Creating a chip, resistors, capacitors, inductors, transistors, pads, …)

• Drawing a schematic
  (Placing components into schematic, connecting pins, …)

• Finishing schematic
  (About annotations and designators, adding text and descriptions, achematic compilation and check, …)

• Schematic Tips & Tricks
  (About net names, power names, about pull up/downs …)

• Creating footprints
  (Creating footprints, using component wizard, about layers in Altium, …)

• Stackup and Rules
  (Setting up stackup, setting up rules for layout)

• Component placement
  (How to place components into your PCB, what is important, how to select component in schematic and place it in PCB, …)

• Working in Altium
  (Explains all the important commands and settings, going through all the common situations that you may need)

• Doing PCB layout
  (What is important during layout, connecting pins and drawing tracks, working with polygons, …)

• Improving and finishing PCB layout
  (DRC check, clearing violations, setting up thermal relief, adding text, …)

• Generating outputs for PCB manufacturing
  (Output to PDF, NC Drill, Gerber files, …)