The theory behind this course is learned by the students in course CADD210, a classroom course which must be taken concurrently. Students produce industry quality drawings including layouts, detail and assembly drawings, schematics and wiring diagrams. Topics include energy, structure of matter, electrical units, wire calculations, series, parallel and compound circuits, magnetism, capacitors, inductors, transformers, and simple motors and generators. This course is an introduction to Autocad and Mechanical Desktop, computer graphics softwares. This course deals with the principles and practices of printed circuit drafting and design, for both analog and digital circuits.
Students learn the theory of printed circuit design and commonly accepted industrial procedures.
The content of this course is applied by the students in course CADD260, a laboratory course which must be taken concurrently. Topics included are circuit board fabrication processes, design factors, analog design, digital design, logic diagrams, detail and assembly drawings. A CAD laboratory course in which students design printed circuit boards using a schematic or a logic diagram as a starting point. Projects include single and double sided boards, analog and digital. Industry quality drawings are created for each project.