HN Hardware Hackers: Fundamentals of PCB Design

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There have been a number of discussions on HN about doing circuit boards and wanting to learn how. Here's a good intro by an recognized expert in high-speed PCB design:

http://www.techonline.com/electrical-engineers/education-training/courses/4000356/Fundamentals-of-PCB-Design

For the mechanics of actually designing the electronics and laying out a PCB I'd recommend the free training videos from Altium:

http://altiumvideos.live.altium.com/

intro:

http://wiki.altium.com/display/ADOH/Tutorial+-+Getting+Started+with+PCB+Design

Keep in mind that this is professional-grade software (not free).

A good KiCAD (FOSS) tutorial can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okAUlHsTcg0

http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/KiCad+EDA+Software+Suite

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