How Do You Get a Nano into an Eagle Schematic?

22 Dec 2020

As it is Christmas and we are in a lockdown, or as good as, so cannot see any family, I thought I might use this opportunity to actually get to grips with Eagle and maybe make a PCB for my robots so that I can continue my quest to take over the world with them. However, I have run into a problem. How do you put a Nano as a component into an Eagle schematic?

I have looked on Google, YouTube and Element14 but I do not seem to be able to find any answers. I might just not be looking in the right places.

I have used other schematic capture softwares a few years ago so know the general idea. The one I used had Nanos as a component so that it could easily be added. I have just started to use Eagle and want to make a PCB that mostly just contains a Nano and a couple of other components. But I do not seem to be able to find out how to do it. Can anyone help? I just downloaded the latest version of Eagle 9.6.2.

Dubbie

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genebren over 2 years ago in reply to genebren

Dubbie,

Here is a link to the element14 eagle page, there is a link on here to the Arduino Library : Autodesk EAGLE
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genebren over 2 years ago

Dubbie,

The correct way to do this is to use a library element. You might be able to find a library for the Arduino Nano online, so look around.

When I was dropping a Nano into my Ardunio Day project, I took a simple shortcut. I dropped to 15-pin pin headers onto my schematic, attached nets to the pins and labeled them with the Nano pinouts. I could then attach the nets to the necessary locations in my design. When it came to doing the layout, just position the two headers appropriately (aligned with the proper spacing).

Good luck!
Gene
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