Designing Circuit Boards with EAGLE · Make High-Quality PCBs at Low Cost by Scarpino, Matthew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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About This eBook Title Page Copyright Page Praise for Designing Circuit Boards with EAGLE Contents Preface

Structure of This Book Example File Archive

Acknowledgments About the Author Part I: Preliminary Introduction

Chapter 1. Introducing EAGLE

1.1 A Whirlwind Tour of EAGLE 1.2 Obtaining EAGLE 1.3 Licensing 1.4 Organization of This Book 1.5 More Information 1.6 Conclusion

Chapter 2. An Overview of Circuit Boards and EAGLE Design

2.1 Anatomy of a Printed Circuit Board 2.2 Overview of Circuit Design with EAGLE 2.3 Conclusion

Chapter 3. Designing a Simple Circuit

3.1 An Inverting Amplifier 3.2 Initial Steps 3.3 The Inverting Amplifier Schematic 3.4 Board Layout 3.5 Routing 3.6 CAM Processor 3.7 Conclusion

Part II: Designing the Arduino Femtoduino

Chapter 4. Designing the Femtoduino Schematic

4.1 Initial Steps 4.2 The Reset Switch 4.3 Voltage Regulation 4.4 The ATmega328P Microcontroller 4.5 Header Connections 4.6 Net Classes 4.7 Electrical Rule Check 4.8 Generating the Board Design 4.9 Framing the Schematic 4.10 Attributes and Assembly Variants 4.11 Conclusion

Chapter 5. Layout and Design Rules

5.1 Layers 5.2 Board Layout 5.3 Design Rule Check 5.4 Conclusion

Chapter 6. Routing

6.1 An Overview of Routing 6.2 Manual Routing 6.3 Follow-Me Routing 6.4 The Autorouter 6.5 Home PCB Fabrication 6.6 Conclusion

Chapter 7. Generating and Submitting Output Files

7.1 Jobs and the CAM Processor 7.2 Viewing Gerber Files 7.3 Drill Files 7.4 Submitting Design Files 7.5 Conclusion

Part III: Advanced Capabilities

Chapter 8. Creating Libraries and Components

8.1 Creating the Library 8.2 Creating the SIMPLE-TQFP16 8.3 Creating the VACUUM-TH 8.4 Creating the TW9920 8.5 Conclusion

Chapter 9. Simulating Circuits with LTspice

9.1 Introducing LTspice 9.2 Designing a Schematic 9.3 Simulating the Circuit 9.4 Exchanging Designs with EAGLE 9.5 Conclusion

Part IV: Automating EAGLE

Chapter 10. Editor Commands

10.1 Introducing Editor Commands 10.2 Schematic Editor Commands 10.3 Commands for Board Designs 10.4 Commands for Library Interface 10.5 The Assign, Change, and Set Commands 10.6 Configuration Scripts 10.7 Conclusion

Chapter 11. Introduction to the User Language (UL)

11.1 Overview of UL 11.2 Simple Data Types and Functions 11.3 Builtins 11.4 Control Structures 11.5 The exit Statement 11.6 Conclusion

Chapter 12. Examining Designs with the User Language

12.1 UL-Specific Data Types 12.2 Schematic Designs (UL_SCHEMATIC) 12.3 Board Designs (UL_BOARD) 12.4 Conclusion

Chapter 13. Creating Dialogs and Menu Items

13.1 Predefined Dialogs 13.2 Custom Dialogs and Widgets 13.3 Dialog Layouts 13.4 The Menu Command 13.5 Conclusion

Part V: The BeagleBone Black

Chapter 14. Schematic Design for the BeagleBone Black

14.1 Overview of the BeagleBone Black 14.2 Advanced EAGLE Schematics 14.3 AM3359 Memory/JTAG Connections 14.4 AM3359 I/O Connections 14.5 System Memory 14.6 Power Management 14.7 Ethernet and the Universal Serial Bus 14.8 Graphics Display 14.9 Conclusion

Chapter 15. Board Design for the BeagleBone Black

15.1 Configuring the Stackup 15.2 Creating and Routing Ball Grid Arrays 15.3 Trace Length and Meander 15.4 The BBB Board Design 15.5 Conclusion

Appendix A. EAGLE Library Files

A.1 Anatomy of a Library File A.2 Settings, Grid, and Layers A.3 Overview of Library Elements A.4 Symbols A.5 Packages A.6 Devicesets A.7 Conclusion

Appendix B. The Gerber File Format

B.1 Introducing the Gerber Format B.2 Setting Global Properties B.3 Aperture Definitions B.4 Drawing Shapes B.5 Custom Apertures B.6 Conclusion

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