Electronic Mirror Control PCB Board Reverse Engineering
Electronic Mirror Control PCB Board Reverse Engineering
Electronic Mirror Control PCB Board Reverse Engineering consist of multiple layers of electrical copper and insulating material sandwiched together. Several Electronic Design Applications (EDA) exist to both create schematics of a circuit and transfer them to a working Electronic Mirror Control PCB Board layout drawing, schematic diagram, gerber file and list of component.
At the University of Florida, we have access to Protel 99SE for these functions. The resulting PCB design can then be sent to a company for a professional board with silkscreens, multiple layers, etc. MIL also has the ability, through a T-Tech Quick Circuit, to make single and double sided circuit boards PCBs out of copper-plated sheets of insulating material.
Electronic Mirror Control PCB Board Reverse Engineering
The latter process is unable to make complicated designs, but it both quick and cheap. This tutorial covers the creation of a sample design using Protel 99SE, and its preparation to be milled out by the T-Tech.
First we must create an overall database that will contain all the individual components of the design – the Schematics that describe the circuit, the PCB Designs that physically layout the components and their connections, and other assorted files.
Start Protel and select File/New. Use a MS Access Database and give it a name – this will create a Design Database file (extension .DDB) that contains all the parts of your design. In this case, we’ll call it Tutorial.DDB. Maximize the window – it makes it easier to have one title bar.
The Database has its own internal File System – go into the Documents Folder, select File/New and create a new Schematic Document. Always rename your files to something more descriptive (HC11 IO.sch, Power Regulation.sch, etc.) – this will make it easier to keep track of what information is in each document. We’ll stick to the pattern and call it Tutorial.sch.
Save often – both Windows and Protel can be buggy at times, and the last thing you want to do is lose over an hours work because of a crash.