PCB Design

Increase Your Design Skills, Knowledge and Capabilities

Find the courses you need to increase your own skills or expand your entire team's capabilities. IPC's PCB design curriculum has courses for every level of knowledge and covers critical topics like aerospace, rigid-flex and advanced packaging.

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Introduction to PCB Design I

This introductory course will focus on front-end design concepts such as schematic capture, library parts creation, basic electrical engineering concepts, and documentation.

PCB Troubleshooting and Defect Analysis

Taught by an IPC-certified industry expert, this four-week program utilizes interactive webinars, on-demand recordings, and job-specific exercises to facilitate mastery of the key concepts required for successful printed circuit board troubleshooting and defect analysis.

Introduction to PCB Design II

In this course, participants employ the lessons learned in Introduction to PCB Design I to effectively implement their designs using techniques such as multi-layer routing, signal integrity, transmission lines, and more.

Introductory and Intermediate PCB Design Courses

Introduction to PCB Design for Manufacturability

This series of ten micro-modules introduce some of the key concepts required to optimize the design of printed circuit boards for manufacture. If you'd like to learn more after completing the series, consider taking the IPC Design for Manufacturability course. More Less

Introduction to PCB Design I

Learn the fundamentals by focusing on front-end design concepts such as schematic capture, library parts creation, basic electrical engineering concepts, and documentation. More Less

Introduction to PCB Design II

Building on the content in PCB Design I, student implement their designs using techniques like multi-layer routing, signal integrity, transmission lines, and more. The course also focuses on how manufacturing and assembly techniques impact design, documentation and manufacturing file generation. More Less

PCB Design for Manufacturability

This two-and-a-half-week course covers all the knowledge and skills necessary to reduce or eliminate design, documentation, and capability issues that often arise when completed PCB designs are sent to the fabricator for production. More Less

Advanced PCB Design Courses

PCB Design for Military, Aerospace Applications

This course addresses specific challenges encountered in military and aerospace applications, including the effects of vibration, shock, radiation, altitude, extended operating temperature range, and other design considerations for high-reliability applications. More Less

PCB Design for Rigid-Flex Boards

Participants learn the skills necessary to effectively implement designs requiring flex and rigid-flex circuits in accordance with product requirements. The class also explores the impact of these designs on manufacturing and assembly techniques, documentation, and manufacturing file generation. More Less

PCB Design for Radio Frequency (RF)

Learn the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to meet the design, manufacturing, and routing challenges of high-speed and radio frequency (RF) printed circuit boards. More Less

Advanced Design Concepts

The course will start with HDI and advanced packaging concepts. This will be followed by embedded component design and the students will see how concepts from HDI are used in the implementation of embedded components. Next, concepts necessary for the design of wearable electronics and how the use of concepts from HDI and Embedded are necessary to achieve the small size and light weight of wearable electronics. More Less

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Electronics Assembly Training for Engineers - Get New Engineers Up to Speed Fast

Developed with the industry to cover the topics every engineer must know.

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