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This session is intended for board designers to understand the things RF engineers request during PCB layout. Experienced RF engineers will likely not learn anything new from this course, as the...

Differential pairs have been used in PC boards for years to carry high-speed serial and high-speed parallel data, in a variety of bus formats. Many board designers and engineers believe the rules...

As use of artificial intelligence in electronics design and manufacturing becomes a discussion point, it recalls a similar debate from 40 years ago on the impact of a new technology -- SMT -- that...

Topics covered: 1. BGA/CSP process technologies and standards; single die BGA and FBGA packaging, flip-chip and die-size package technologies, wafer level packaging (WLP), fan-out wafer-level...

Speaker

Rick Hartley
RHartley Enterprises

Duration
 3min 15sec

Circuit boards for the IoT world (Internet of Things) are often driven by the need for low power dissipation, low cost (which drives very low layer count), moderate to high-density and mixed-signal applications. This combination of needs can make board design an extreme challenge. Creating a 1-, 2- or 4-layer board, with excellent signal integrity and low noise/interference and no EMI issues can, by itself, be a very serious challenge. This 3.5-hour course will discuss how to understand when it is necessary to control impedance of lines, how to do it cost-effectively, proper setup of routed lines to keep circuit energy from spreading (preventing interference), even on a one layer board, design of antenna into the PCB, circuit grounding in low layer count boards, power distribution without the benefit of power planes, ground bounce, cross talk with low layer count and design to optimize manufacturability of low layer count PCBs.

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