PCB design guidelines

Hello all,

Can you provide me with the general pcb design guidelines? I had a research on internet looking for this, but cannot find a good one.

Thanks and Best Regards,
David Wuf

What exactly do You need ?

Some standards ? or how to make PCB at home ? or something else ?

Hi, Tpetar,
Both generic design guide and power circuit plus RF circuit design guide. please share with me if you have any of the related information.

Thanks,
David

Search this forum, this is a topic that has been discussed several times. There are previous threads with numerous links.
Also I have had no trouble finding links to do with PCB design on the internet, you need to leartn where to look and how to phrase your searches.
What knowledge of PCB design and electronics do you currently have, and how long due you have to learn, as PCB design comes under two categories:
The theory and knowledge of electronics.
Laying out PCB's, ie experience, this takes time, years in fact...

HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE IPC, if not get info on the IPC as they do most of the documentation you are going to design your boards to, the C1000 series of documents should be a good start.

hello,
i recommend you to download some video from youtube.. by searching --> how to make pcb at home.
here some usefull video for you
1)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie7hUKlCzO4
2)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKEe3otWstM
use eagle software for similation of your circuit design .

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hello,
i recommend you to download some video from youtube.. by searching --> how to make pcb at home.
here some usefull video for you
1)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie7hUKlCzO4
2)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKEe3otWstM
use eagle software for similation of your circuit design .

General PCB Design Guidelines will ask you to take care of Signal Integrity with respect to below issues and others:
1. Impedance Matching
2. Crosstalk
3. EMI/EMC Issues
4. Taking care of current return paths
5. Thermal Check
6. Proper routing and layer stacking

Go through the links I have provided, you should find sites such as Henry Ott, Eric Bogatin and Howard Johnson that will cover most of what you want. Those links should then provide more searches and reference material to read and study.

Hi,

The most important thing is components placement. More time you spend on component placement, the better PCB you get. The measure is, if you spend 90% of time on placement, and 10% of time on routing, then you should get a very good PCB design. But if you have to take more time on routing than this, it means that your placement is not good (from my experience). So you should go back to do placement again, and then re-route the board. When this condition meets (that means if after placing all the components, the routing is very easier), your PCB design is perfect. Other things also matters, like, you should keep the Analog and Digital grounds separate.
You should read lot of documentation on this subject, if you have decided to make career in this field. I have just put some words here from my experience. Best of Luck.