Printed Circuit Board Design at EPFL Feel free to add or modify. Comments to Peter.Bruehlmeier@epfl.ch

News

 The new Altium Designer 19 Release

STI Services

There is a PCB Shop (ACI)  producing 2 layer bords of 150 micron precision and 0.3mm minimal drill.

PCB boards of any complexity are  routed at  (ACI-CAO) formerly ACORT. Netlist file as input from  Cadence Concept/OrCAD or Telesis netlist  generated with Altium Eagle schematic editor .  Please contact Peter Brühlmeier early on in the process of designing the PCB.

PCB Editors used at EPFL

• Altium Schmatic, PCB, FPGA, analog digital simulation, 3D (177 licenses)
• Cadence Concept/Allegro ( 1 license at ACICAO )
• Cadence ORCAD/Allegro ( no lic.)
• EAGLE Layout Editor  ( no lic.)

Componant Search Engines

• FindChips

 

3D Search Engines

• 3d Content Central
• TraceParts.com

Allegro2ProE(IDF)

Simulation

Verilog, SPICE, VHDL

Norms, Standards and Association

IPC, importants informations on component layout, size, origine and orientation.

IEEE electronic symbols

Outsourcing

List of Links

 

Books

Online:

• Signal integrity issues and printed circuit board design

EPFL Bib:

Printed circuits handbook

The Circuit Designer's Companion, Third Edition [Paperback] Peter Wilson (Author)

Acquisition of licenses

Currently there are 177 Altium  licenses available at EPFL. 

Cadence provides licenses through Europractice.