Week 5 PCB Design

✅ group assignment: use the test equipment in your lab to observe the operation of a microcontroller circuit board

For our group assignment, we met in the MARS lab where Quentin demonstrated how to use various testing instruments for electronics debugging. We explored digital logic concepts and were introduced to several tools, including an oscilloscope, logic analyzer, and multimeter.

✅individual assignment: use an EDA tool to design a development board that uses parts from the inventory to interact and communicate with an embedded microcontroller extra credit: try another design workflow extra credit: design a case for it

For this week I tried to do a simple PCB design with microcontroller

Add a new library into KiCAD

Look for the fab class project https://gitlab.fabcloud.org/pub/libraries/electronics/kicad and add to KiCAD

Starting to add components with this button, I choose the RP2040 Xiao with LED and Resistors

After done with schematic layout, switch tab into PCB design, and do the puzzle of routing the paths

That's your PCB