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Title: DipTrace Schematic - Main Board (Rev B).Are you looking for a professional and easy-to-use PCB Design software with powerful autorouter and reasonable price? Try DipTrace and you will be surprised! DipTrace is a complete state-of-the-art PCB Design System. It includes: Quick SpecDipTrace Crack is the world best and very famous program on the internet use in the hands of professionals and also in the hand of intelligent peoples who know very well how to create a PCB circuit kit because it enables you and also provides you a vast platform & also after creating your circuit you can re-edit also.
Schematic — Schematic Capture with multi-level hierarchy and export to PCB Layout, Spice or Netlist. Component and Pattern Editors — allow you to make new parts and footprints. Standard Libraries - include 100,000+ parts. I am not familiar with Diptrace, but look for 'keepout' in the documentation. You want to define keepout areas for each component. An alternate way to do this is to draw copper shapes under each component, such that the autorouter will not be able to use that space.
It has a clunky UI, but the community support can’t be beat. This got me researching options and I finally decided to give Eagle another go. I also knew that when it came time to do the layout, I’d have to shell out for a paid version of DipTrace. I made a few from scratch, but it was tedious and was bogging me down. I was held up a bit not being able to find device models using DipTrace.
It costs twice as much, but everything is neater and more electrically sound. The other half will be the “main unit” where the processor is housed along with all the sensor inputs, etc.Due to all the LED and LCD I/O, I decided to go with a four layer board. This will serve as the “dashboard” part of this project. I also found that making new device models from scratch was a breeze in Eagle so I soon found myself cranking them out myself rather than hunting for them.Using Eagle, i was able to finalize the design for the remote display PCB. I was able to find a few obscure device models such as the 12 LED bargraph in the Adafruit library. For example Adafruit and Sparkfun both share their schematics in Eagle and offer their libraries up for public use.After about 30 minutes of getting used to the UI, I was rolling.
On the right are three push buttons. It has an RGB backlight so the four trim pots on the left control its contract and background color. In the middle is a good old fashioned 20×4 character LCD. You can see the four 12 bar LEDs along the top that will act together as the shift light and also blink warning statuses. All components are on top.
Oh and there’s a power LED too!I decided to go with OSH Park for the PCBs. The two chips toward the outside are HT16K33 LED controllers and each drive a pair of the 12bar LEDs on the I2C bus as well. The connector on the left is a Molex Microfit which is easy to use, has good density, and has cheap off-brand crimp tooling.The middle chip is the MCP23008 demux that is running the LCD off the I2C bus.
When all the kinks are worked out with this Remote Display assembly, I’ll move on to ordering the Main Unit boards.This entry was posted in Digital Dashboard on Decemby admin. This way I’m only introducing one major variable at a time. My plan is to use this assembly with the LPC4088 dev base board acting as the main unit. In about two weeks i should have my boards!I’ll get the parts on order soon and if all goes well, I’ll have a functioning PCB assembly in the next few weeks.
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