Electronic Engineering
KiCad and PCBs — Complete Edition
From Schematic to Fabricated Board, and from Materials Science to Additive Manufacturing
- 318 pages
- 2026
- pt
Designing the board and manufacturing it are two halves of the same craft, and they are almost always taught apart. Learn only the software and you draw things the factory cannot build; learn only the process and you cannot fix the drawing that caused it.
This edition brings both guides together in one volume: the thirty chapters of «KiCad, A Guided Course», which take you from the first schematic to the Gerber files, followed by the twelve chapters of «PCB Fabrication and Assembly», which follow the board through lamination, drilling, plating, SMT, soldering, inspection and IPC certification.
It is the whole journey, in the order it actually happens — and written by someone who made it in both directions: the author repaired the machines on the line before he designed his first board, and has been designing boards since 2006.
For anyone who wants only one of the halves, the two volumes remain available separately.
In this book
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01 Part I — KiCad, from schematic to Gerber (30 chapters)
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02 Part II — Industrial fabrication and assembly (12 chapters)
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