5 Tips to become a Professional PCB designer | Vaibhav Sugandhi
Summary
TLDRIn this video, passionate PCB designer and tech startup founder, Bible Savindi, shares five essential tips for aspiring PCB designers in the electronics industry. The video emphasizes the importance of understanding PCB design fundamentals, practicing with real-time projects, adhering to industrial standards like IPC and IEEE, gaining practical experience through internships at startups, and learning from expert tutorials. Savindi also introduces a beginner's course for PCB design, available for free, to help newcomers grasp the basics and kickstart their careers.
Takeaways
- 🔍 Understand the fundamentals of PCB designing, as it's crucial for building a strong foundation in the field.
- 🛠️ Practice with real-time projects to gain hands-on experience and apply the learned fundamentals.
- 🏭 Familiarize yourself with industrial design standards such as IPC, IEEE, and IEC to ensure your designs meet industry requirements.
- 💼 Work as an intern at a startup to gain practical experience and bridge the gap between education and industry.
- 👨🏫 Watch expert tutorials and learn from experienced PCB designers to acquire advanced skills and techniques.
- 🔗 Networking and communication are key in the industry, so learn how to collaborate effectively in a team.
- 📚 Engage in continuous learning to stay updated with the latest tools and technologies in PCB design.
- 💡 Be open to experimentation and innovation, as they are integral to advancing in the field of PCB design.
- 🎓 Consider taking courses or certifications to enhance your knowledge and credibility as a PCB designer.
- 🌟 Seek mentorship and guidance from experienced professionals to navigate the complexities of the industry.
Q & A
What is the first step to becoming a PCB designer according to the video?
-The first step is to deeply understand the fundamentals of PCB designing, which includes understanding terms like tracks, clearance, footprint, schematic symbol, and their roles in PCB designing.
Why is practicing with real-time projects important for a PCB designer?
-Practicing with real-time projects helps a PCB designer apply their fundamentals in reality, understand the role of tracks in PCB designing, and learn about industrial standards and methodologies used in the industry.
What are the industrial design standards that a PCB designer should be familiar with?
-A PCB designer should be familiar with standards such as IPC (International Printed Circuit), IEEE, and IEC standards, which dictate how components are placed on PCBs, track creation, track width maintenance, and overall circuit design according to product application requirements.
How can working with a startup company benefit a beginner PCB designer?
-Working with a startup as an intern exposes a beginner to real-time product development cycles, allowing them to design PCBs according to IPC and company standards, and gain practical experience under expert guidance.
What does the speaker recommend for learning from experts in PCB designing?
-The speaker recommends watching expert design tutorials, specifically mentioning YouTube channels like Altium Designer, Carl Bujjija, and Grid Squad, to learn from their use of EDA tools and techniques in designing PCBs for various applications.
What is the role of documentation in PCB designing according to the video?
-Documentation plays a crucial role in PCB designing as it helps maintain design records, facilitates communication between team members, and is essential for project management and reporting work progress within a company.
Why is understanding industrial project management standards important for a PCB designer?
-Understanding industrial project management standards is important for a PCB designer to work effectively in a team, communicate designs, and maintain industry-level documentation, which is vital for large-scale industry operations.
What is the significance of DRC and ERC checks in PCB designing?
-DRC (Design Rule Check) and ERC (Electrical Rule Check) are significant in PCB designing as they help identify and rectify errors in the design process, ensuring the PCB meets the required standards and specifications.
What is the advice for someone who is new to PCB designing and finding it difficult to understand expert terminologies?
-For beginners who find it challenging to understand expert terminologies, the speaker suggests starting with an absolute beginner course for PCB designing, which covers the fundamentals and basic terminologies in detail.
How can one access the beginner course for PCB designing mentioned in the video?
-The beginner course for PCB designing can be accessed for free and is open source. Interested individuals can find the link in the video description or click on the 'I' button on the video to join the course.
What is the importance of understanding the fundamentals of PCB designing before starting a career?
-Understanding the fundamentals of PCB designing is essential as it provides a solid foundation, introduces the real world of PCB designing, and helps one decide whether to pursue a career in this field or not.
Outlines
🎓 Fundamentals of PCB Designing
The video begins with the speaker, Bibil Savindi, a passionate PCB designer and technology startup founder, introducing five important tips for aspiring PCB designers. The first tip emphasizes the importance of understanding the fundamentals of PCB designing, like knowing the alphabets of a language. Just as language requires understanding words and sentences to grasp grammar, PCB designing requires understanding terms such as tracks, clearances, footprints, and schematic symbols. These basics are crucial for anyone starting their journey in the PCB designing industry.
🛠️ Practical Experience with Real-Time Projects
The second tip focuses on the necessity of practicing with real-time projects to gain hands-on experience. The speaker suggests designing a power supply as a practical example to understand how PCB designing is applied in real-world scenarios. This practice helps in understanding the role of tracks, industrial standards, and methodologies used in PCB designing. The speaker also encourages moving from single-layer to multi-layer PCB designs to gain a comprehensive understanding of real-world PCB designing.
🏭 Understanding Industrial Design Standards
The third tip highlights the importance of understanding industrial design standards, such as the IPC standard, which is fundamental for PCB designers. These standards guide how components are placed on a PCB, track widths are maintained, and how circuits are designed according to product requirements. The speaker also mentions other standards like IEEE and IEC, emphasizing the need for understanding these before entering the PCB designing industry. Additionally, the speaker discusses the importance of documentation and communication within a team, which are crucial for successful collaboration in product design engineering.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡PCB Designing
💡Fundamentals
💡Real-time Projects
💡Industrial Standards
💡IPC Standard
💡Documentation
💡Internship
💡EDA Tools
💡YouTube Channels
💡Absolute Beginner Course
Highlights
Understanding the fundamentals of PCB designing is crucial, akin to learning the alphabets of a language.
Fundamentals include knowing what tracks, clearances, footprints, schematic symbols are in PCB designing.
Practicing with real-time projects is essential for a hardware design engineer to apply the fundamentals practically.
Designing a power supply is an example of a real-time project that helps in understanding PCB designing.
Understanding industrial standards like IPC is necessary for working in a team and following industry practices.
IPC standards guide component placement, track creation, and track width maintenance in PCB designing.
Other important standards include IEEE and IEC, which are followed in the PCB designing industry.
DRC and ERC checks are part of the design activity in the PCB industry for error checking.
Working with a startup as an intern provides exposure to real-time product development and industry standards.
Internships help bridge the gap between education and industry by providing hands-on experience.
Watching expert design tutorials is a learning mode that helps in understanding the use of EDA tools in industry.
YouTube channels like Altium Designer, Carl Bujjija, and Grid Squad are recommended for learning PCB designing.
Carl Bujjija's channel is known for experimenting with brushless motors and electromagnetic induction principles.
Grid Squad's channel helps in understanding the basics of electronics and circuit design.
Watching expert videos helps in learning skills, tips, and tricks for real-time product development.
Linked Frequency offers a beginner course for PCB designing covering fundamentals and basic terminologies.
The beginner course is free and open source, suitable for anyone starting in the PCB designing industry.
Transcripts
find tips to become a PCB designer in
electronic industry hi everyone I am
bible savindi passionate PCB designer
and Technology startup founder in this
particular video I'm going to share you
a 5 important tips which I followed when
I started my journey as a PCB designer
in electronic industry
so let's start
[Music]
first step is deeply understanding the
fundamentals of PCB designing I hope
everybody understands that without
knowing the alphabets of any language it
is difficult for anyone to understand
the words without understanding The
Words it is difficult to form a sentence
and without knowing the sentence and
creating a sentence you cannot
understand the grammar that's how the
fundamentals of that particular language
is very important in the similar way in
PCB designing industry you also
understanding the fundamentals like what
is a track with what is the clearance
what is footprint what is schematic
symbol all these things plays a vital
role to start your career in PCB
designing industry without even thinking
about a career just you want to know how
exactly PCB designing looks like you
must understand the fundamentals of PCB
designing in the first place once you
understand the fundamentals of PCB
designing probably will get to know how
exactly the terminologies and complex
methodologies are being used in PCB
designing engineering once you
understand how exactly the terminologies
are being used you can decide whether
you want to pursue your career as a PCB
designer or you would want to continue
with that because that is the place
where you get to know or you get
introduced to the real word of PCB
designing so that's why understanding
the fundamentals of any technology is
very much in that case understanding the
fundamentals of PCB designing industry
is very essential to start your career
as a PCB designer
second tip is all about practice with
the real-time projects of course it is
essential for a hardware design engineer
to practice more and more with respect
to real-time examples so that he or she
can understand how exactly PCB designing
is done in real time for example if you
want to learn the single layer PCB
designing try to design a power supply a
5 volt DC power supply 12 volt to DC
power supply or maybe a 230 volt AC to a
5 Volt or 3.3 Volt or a 12 volt
multi-voltage DC power supply in fact in
that particular process only you will
get to know how to apply your
fundamentals in reality you will
understand how exactly the track would
plays a vital role in PCB designing you
will also understand what are the
industrial standards are being used in
this particular design activity
nonetheless when you start designing the
single layer pcbs you are getting
introduced to the industry but when you
start designing a two layer pcbs with
practical examples you can experience
how exactly pcbs are designed in real
world so that's why practicing more and
more project with the Practical examples
makes a very important note as a tip
number two
third tip is all about understanding the
industrial design standards whenever you
want to enter into any industry it is
essential that you must understand how
exactly the industrial standards are
followed in the company because without
knowing how to work in a group without
knowing how exactly the communication
happens between a two engineer it
becomes very difficult to play a team
role in the entire product design
engineering that's why in industrial
standards of PCB design industry there
are several standards you must
understand before entering into the
career of PCB designer one among them is
IPC standard which is international
printed circuit which is fundamental and
very essential to understand how to
place a component on the PCB how to
create a track on the PCB how exactly
the track width is need to be maintained
in the PCB designing or even that matter
how to design the entire circuit
according to the product application
requirement like IPC standards there are
IEEE standards IEC standards which are
being for follower in the design
industry of the PCB designing world so
you must understand all these
fundamentals before even entering into
the career of PCB designing once you
understand these fundamentals probably
you can understand how exactly
converting the present requirement or
maybe the customer requirement into
real-time product
nonetheless to check the errors we use a
DRC error check or maybe ERC check which
are again a part of the design activity
in the PCB designing industry once you
understand these industrial standards
probably you will become a technically
competent to work in a team which is
already working on a project in the
industry nonetheless you also need to
understand how to do the documentation
how to report the work to be done in in
the meeting or maybe you also need to
know how exactly you share your work
with other teammate in your project work
say for example if you are working in a
group of people or if you are working in
a company where group of people are
working on certain project you must
understand how to communicate between
one point to another Point how your
designs are need to be maintained in
fact in large scale Industries
maintaining a documents is one more
hectic task which is being solved by
artificial intelligence nowadays but
once you understand all these things
once you understand how exactly the
induscale people works by understanding
the industrial project management
standards then probably you can get into
the industry with ease of Designing the
products in PCB designing industry
four is working with a startup company
as an intern of course when you start
your career obviously will be not having
any experience and most of the companies
in their interview either they ask for
experience or they ask for internship
experience because without having
experience working in Industry it
becomes very difficult to answer
interview questions or participate in
the interview and to crack that
particular interview when it comes to
our education system and most of the
things that we learn in theory will not
be applicable in Practical that's why
there is a huge gap between our
education and our industry again it's a
big topic to discuss we'll keep it in
the other video but right now what we
can focus is you become a smart person
by taking more and more internship
activity in your college days or even if
you are done with your college you can
take another three month to six months
of time to do a certain internship with
a PCB designing software company or
maybe a PCB design engineer at certain
esdm company for example in our company
we hire interns to work on certain
projects three months of time or maybe
six months of time is allocated to them
to complete one project in that
particular project they are exposed to
the real-time product development
activity which is product development
cycle in esdm Industry on that time they
are literally designing the pcbs to
match the IPC standards as well as our
company standards to deliver the product
to the customer of course we will be
helping them in the process as expert or
guiding them to finish the project on
time however they will be given with a
chance to experience how exactly the
products are designed in real time
industry that kind of internship will
always help you to start your career as
a PCB designer tip number five is watch
experts design tutorials of course we
have a habit of learning from various
modes and one among them is watching
other experts doing that particular
piece of Designing when we watch
multiple videos which are posted on
YouTube most of the time and you can see
how the experts are using the tools and
techniques of that particular tool which
is a Eda tool by the way and to design a
PCB so one among them is Altium designer
is a YouTube channel which helps you to
understand how exactly ultim software is
being used in industry to develop a lot
of projects online and also the second
online Creator or a YouTube content
creator is Carl bujjija he is one of the
best person who will teach you how
exactly the pcbs are designed for the
various applications in fact he is one
who is experimenting with respect to
brushless motors I mean the PCB motor
design using electromagnetic induction
principle and the third YouTube channel
which I recommend is grid Squad because
this one channel will help you to lot a
lot to understand how exactly basics of
electronics is used and how exactly the
circuits are designed when you are
designing the product by electronic
means when we are watching these is kind
of videos you will get to know how
exactly experts are designing the
circuits by using a Eda tool by doing so
or by watching them you will learn lot
of skills or a lot of tips and tricks
that you can Implement while you are
developing your product in real time
however if you are a beginner who
doesn't have any experience of
understanding the terminologies of these
great creators then don't worry I have a
backup for you we at linked frequency
have created absolute beginner course
for PCB designing industry to start with
in fact in this particular course I have
covered the fundamentals of PCB
designing basic terminologies of PCB
designing and covered it in a very
detailed manner that you can literally
learn from scratch the link for this
particular course is given in the
description or you can click on the I
button here to join that particular
course of course it is free of cost and
it is open source for anyone to start
with and complete I believe these five
tips are going to help you to start your
career as a PCB designer in electronic
industry consider subscribing to our
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