The textbook compilation for Altium Designer should highlight its practical characteristics

In light of the fact that current PCB design textbook adopted in higher education institution is not concerned with its actual practical circuit design application, this paper will use the practical engineering cases to illustrate several points and summarize the innovative practical experiences in the process of compiling Altium Designer textbook. This textbook features on its typical examples, using numerous training cases to help students master schematic diagram, PCB and 3D PCB design, PCB constraint rules and interactive routing, schematic library, PCB library and integrated library creation, circuit design and simulation technology gradually. Finally, this study will use the robot circuit design as an example, exploring the design methods of hierarchical schematic diagram and multi-channel circuit, with the purpose to improve students' PCB design skills. Teaching practice indicates that adopting new textbook with its design cases could optimize students' knowledge structure and strengthen their circuit and PCB design capacity, also it will be beneficial to cultivate students' learning and innovative capacity. Through the survey of questionnaire, 94.2% of the students think that through the study of this course, they can master the design skills of circuit and PCB.