The EASY-PC Handbook: PCB Layout and Circuit Design by Computer - Softcover

Sinclair, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750622814 ISBN 13: 9780750622813

Publisher: Newnes, 1995

Synopsis

This book is a guide to the leading and readily available computer-aided design package, EASY-PC. Ian Sinclair explains clearly, using EASY-PC, how to get the best out of a PCB layout and design system. This book covers EASY-PC in detail, with step by step examples.

Aimed in particular at the small-scale user of PCBs, professional, student and amateur, the book shows how to: edit layout until all connections are correct and no lines cross; produce silk-screen layouts and copper-etch diagrams; generate data to drive an NC drill. The book will also be useful for professionals requiring boards for development work and for production. The skills described and developed in this book will allow designers to: handle more complex circuit designs; show components and their interconnections; rearrange and move components and wiring and with the professional version; generate a rats-nest wiring diagram; use checking routines and generate reports; integrate the layout package with analysis programs; generate automatic PCB layouts.

About this title

About the Author

Ian Sinclair was born in 1932 in Tayport, Fife, and graduated from the University of St. Andrews in 1956. In that year, he joined the English Electric Valve Co. in Chelmsford, Essex, to work on the design of specialised cathode-ray tubes, and later on small transmitting valves and TV transmitting tubes. In 1966, he became an assistant lecturer at Hornchurch Technical College, and in 1967 joined the staff of Braintree College of F.E. as a lecturer. His first book, "Understanding Electronic Components" was published in 1972, and he has been writing ever since, particularly for the novice in Electronics or Computing. The interest in computing arose after seeing a Tandy TRS80 in San Francisco in 1977, and of his 204 published books, about half have been on computing topics, starting with a guide to Microsoft Basic on the TRS80 in 1979. He left teaching in 1984 to concentrate entirely on writing, and has also gained experience in computer typesetting, particularly for mathematical texts. He has recently visited Seattle to see Microsoft at work, and to remind them that he has been using Microsoft products longer than most Microsoft employees can remember. Ian Sinclair is the author of the following Made Simple books: Lotus 1-2-3- (2.4 DOS version) MS-DOS (up to version 6.22) PagePlus for Windows 3.1 Hard drives He is also the author of many other books published under our Newnes imprint.Visit Ian's website at http://website.lineone.net/~ian_sinclair

Edition details

• Publisher: Newnes
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750622814
• ISBN 13: 9780750622813
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288