Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
From here, your job is to place the different components (that we chose in the previous
step when creating the schematic) on the board, arrange them as you want, and route the
board. Routing refers to connecting the different components together on the board using
copper traces. This can be done automatically by using the auto-routing functionality of
EAGLE. You can see that EAGLE already indicates which components are connected to-
gether by displaying thin lines between their pins.
For my example board, I placed all the components first in order to use the least amount
of space possible on the board while keeping some space for traces on the board. This is
displayed in the following screenshot:
I then used the auto-routing function of EAGLE to automatically connect all the compon-
ents on the board according to the schematic, as shown in the following screenshot:
