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PCB Design with TINA

Posted by ganesh at 7:48 PM

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Create single, double-sided or multilayer PCBs of your circuits with a single mouse click, using automatically-placed and routed components. All components in TINA are "PCB-ready" and have associated footprints. If necessary, you can review and edit a component's footprint using the components' spreadsheet. TINA's unique 3D capability displays a schematic with the physical parts in place of their electronic symbols. You can also view the PCB in 3D from any angle to see how it will look after manufacture.

The fully integrated layout module of TINA 7 has all the features you need for advanced PCB design, including powerful autoplacement & autorouting, flexible PCBs, manual and "follow-me" trace placement, DRC, forward/back annotation, pin/gate swapping, keep-in/out areas, thermal relief, fanout, plane layers, Gerber file output and much more.


Single layer SMD circuit


Schemaric diagram


Schematic with 3D view of parts


Single sided layout


3D view of the circuit

Double layer through-hole circuit


Schematic diagram of a double-sided design


3D part preview on the schematic


PCB layout with Top (red) layer selected



PCB layout with Bottom (green) layer selected



3D view of the top side


Looking at the bottom layer

4-layer SMD circuit


Schematic diagram of the 4-layer SMD design



PCB layout of the 4-layer SMD design



3D view of the top side


3D view of the bottom side


Flexible PCB Layout (Flex PCB)

Flex PCBs are PCBs whose electronic devices are mounted on flexible plastic substrates. They are widely used in modern electronics where space is a critical factor e.g., cameras, mobile phones, etc. TINA supports Flex PCB design, which we will introduce by way of an example. Our example will consist of a conventional rigid PCB with two flexible extensions.

Example file „PIC Flasher DIP4SW flex top.TSC” from the Examples\PCB folder of TINA.

TINA can present a 3D view of the circuit board. Press the rightmost button (3D View) in the TINA PCB Designer program see the PCB as presented in the next figure.

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