Embedded Systems Circuits and Programming

Appendix G

Printed Circuit Boards

G.1 Introduction

For students in courses in electrical, electronics, and computer engineering (or for anyone interested in these fields), hardware boards and programmers are a valuable learning tool. Many such boards are offered online at different prices and levels of complexity. But making your own demo boards is even more valuable than purchasing one off the shelf. In this appendix we provide information and resources to facilitate making hardware versions of three simple demo boards mentioned in the text.

The reader should note that these hardware boards are neither cheap nor easy to make. One of the problems is that companies that produce printed circuit boards often require orders for more than one board. ...