Design production-ready circuit boards from schematic capture to multi-layer high-speed fabrication.
Master professional printed circuit board layout using Altium Designer and EasyEDA. Learn component schematic symbols, PCB stack-up constraints, component placement, high-speed differential routing, 4-layer IoT boards, RF trace antennas, thermal management, DRC, and Gerber/BOM manufacturing outputs.
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How You'll Progress Through This Program
Foundations & Syntax
Understand core concepts, architecture patterns, and algorithmic thinking.
Hands-on Exercises
Construct isolated modules, APIs, pipelines, and component units in live labs.
Integration & DB
Tie together databases, third-party APIs, authentication, and state stores.
Docker & Cloud
Package code into production containers with automated test suites.
Portfolio Capstone
Publish complete codebases with clean Git history for technical interviews.
A curriculum built around real engineering
Electronics Fundamentals & Hardware Reverse Engineering
Build strong circuit analysis foundations, passive component selection skills, and reverse engineer physical PCB layouts.
What You Will Learn
- Electrical fundamentals: Voltage, Current, Resistance, Ohm's and Kirchhoff's Laws
- Passive components: resistors, capacitors, inductors, and series/parallel impedance
- Semiconductors: diodes, bridge rectifiers, BJT and MOSFET transistor switching
- Digital and power electronics overview: logic gates, SCR, TRIAC, and DC-DC power converters
- What is Electronic Reverse Engineering?: applications in product design, repair, and obsolescence
- Component identification and reading IC markings against technical datasheets
- Circuit analysis: tracing power supply rails, ground returns, and signal flow
- PCB layer structure: single-sided, double-sided, and multi-layer copper stack-ups
- Tracing PCB copper tracks manually and measuring circuit node voltages
- Reconstructing circuit schematics from physical boards using EasyEDA software
Reverse engineer a commercial power supply board, trace PCB connections manually, draw the block diagram, and recreate the full schematic in EasyEDA.
How the engineering stack connects
You won't learn isolated tools. You'll understand how databases, APIs, client interfaces, and cloud deployments operate as a unified system.
Altium Designer
Industry-standard software for multi-layer schematic capture, high-speed PCB layout, and 3D MCAD co-design
EasyEDA
Cloud-based PCB layout and schematic tool ideal for rapid prototyping and circuit reverse engineering
Saturn PCB Toolkit
Engineering calculator for PCB trace impedance, current capacity, differential pairs, and via capacitance
CAM350
Design For Manufacturing (DFM) analysis tool to verify Gerber, drill, and aperture files prior to fabrication
Autodesk Eagle / KiCad
Complementary open-source and industry EDA tools for schematic and board layout verification
3D CAD / SolidWorks
STEP file exchange for verifying board mounting, connector alignment, and enclosure fits
Build. Deploy. Prove.
Every project you complete at AIRA follows the exact engineering workflows expected in top tech organizations.
Clean Git & Test Suites
Feature branch workflows, automated unit tests with pytest, strict linting, and meaningful commit messages.
Containerized Environments
Multi-stage Dockerfiles and Docker Compose files ensuring zero environment mismatches between local and cloud.
Live Cloud Deployments
Automated continuous deployment to cloud infrastructure providing live demonstration URLs for interviewers.
Capstone projects you will ship
Concrete codebases solving authentic technical requirements.
4-Layer IoT Microcontroller Development Board
Production-ready 4-layer MCU development board featuring internal power planes, USB-C interface, ESD protection, and SWD debugging.
Solid internal ground plane layer ensuring minimal loop inductance and low radiated emissions.
High-Speed USB 3.0 & DDR Interface Board with Controlled Impedance
High-speed board layout with 90-ohm differential USB pairs, length-tuned DDR memory bus tracks, and impedance calculations.
Serpentine length matching maintaining trace length delta below 5 mils across high-speed bus lines.
High-Efficiency SMPS Power Supply Board with Thermal Relief
High-current buck-boost switch-mode power supply board with optimized switching loops, thermal via arrays, and EMI filtering.
Minimization of high-frequency di/dt switching current loops preventing magnetic interference with control logic.
Target technical roles
PCB Layout Engineer
Translates electronic schematics into multi-layer printed circuit board layouts following strict manufacturing and electrical rules.
Hardware Design Engineer
Designs schematic architectures, selects electronic components, oversees PCB layout, and manages board bring-up testing.
Electronics Packaging & CAD Specialist
Coordinates 3D electro-mechanical packaging, thermal management, and DFM manufacturing releases for hardware products.
All-Inclusive Program Fee
Complete industry curriculum, live 1:1 mentorship, capstone project evaluations, and placement support.
PCB Design
3 Months structured curriculum with all project labs & mentorship.