Learn PCB Design with Eagle

Eagle (Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor) is a software for us to design PCB and send them to the manufacture. By following the video tutorial, I learned how to design PCB with Eagle. Followed is my learning process.

Download 2 useful libraries: Adafruit and Sparkfun.

Activating the libraries and design my first schematic.

Design my first board and place all the components.

Create my own library.

Designing my custom component with the help of data sheet.

Putting my custom voltage regulator with AT25P. One thing to mention is that besides connecting them with lines, we could also give them the same name, and the program will connect them automaticly.

This is the board view of my prokect.

And before sending our design to the manufacture, we need to Electric Rule Checking and Design Rule Checking (ERC & DRC). The following picture shows how ERC works.

 

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