Training Courses

Practical Layout and Routing of Mixed-Signal PCBs

Course id: 0009

Synopsis

Proper Printed Circuit Board layout and routing is vital for signal integrity of high speed and sensitive electronics circuits. Failure to adhere to layout and routing rules, guidelines and recommendations could easily compromise the electromagnetic compatibility of a system, or at worst preventing it from working entirely.

This course is specifically tailored for engineers intending to develop reliable PCBs with an emphasis on mixed signal circuits (analogue, digital, RF) and high speed signaling standards such as LVDS, ECL, USB and DDR2/DDR3. Lectures are interlaced with hands-on practicals to maximize learning effectiveness.

Course highlight
Participants will have practical experiences developing real-world, high speed, mixed signal PCBs using EDA tools.

What participants say about the course
The following are some verbatim statements from the participants:

Strong interaction, content is applicable and practical -- Oct 2010
Practical & lots of lab work. It's great! -- Oct 2010
Hands-on and theory done at the same time, easy to understand the theory by doing the lab exercises -- Oct 2010
I understand the constraints and the need to inform layout engineers on some important critical nets when they are laying out -- Dec 2010

What you will learn

This course concentrates on the theoretical and practical knowledge to allow participants to achieve the following learning outcomes. Upon completing the course, participants would be able to:

Understand the terminology used in by the PCB industry
Use guidelines to determine pad and trace widths and spacing for various voltages and currents
Properly zone PCBs into the analogue, digital and RF domain
Classify and place components to minimize noise
Prioritize and route nets to minimize crosstalk and signal distortion
Implement power and ground planes for effective noise reduction
Route I2C, SPI, LVDS, ECL, USB, PCIE, DDR2 and DDR3 signals

Who should attend

This course is particularly suited for engineers responsible for designing, implementing and testing low noise, digital, high speed, RF and mixed signal PCBs.

Prerequisite

Participants are required to have a background in electronics and/or electrical engineering. Experience with EDA tools, particularly schematic capture and PCB layout tools, would be beneficial.

Course methodology

This course is presented in a workshop style with example-led lectures interlaced with hands-on practical for maximum understanding.

Course duration

3 days.

Course structure

Day 1

Overview: terminology, standards
Material: substrate, copper cladding
Manufacturing process: overview, paneling, drilling, etching, plating, solder resist, silkscreening, electrical test, routing
PCB assembly: component placement, soldering, conformal coating
Multilayed PCBs: multilayer process, interconnecting layers
Footprints: common footprints, custom footprints
Pads: pad size, vias, drill size, thermal reliefs, padstack
Components: categorization, placement, gate swapping

Day 2

Nets: categorization, power distribution, trace width and spacing
Routing: net placement, manual routing, jumpers, auto routing
Mechanics: planes, heat sink, obstacles, keep-outs, fiducial, mounting holes
EDA output: Design Rule Check, Gerber
Low noise circuits: shielding
RF Circuits: impedance matching, intrinsic R, L, C
Combined analogue, digital and RF

Day 3

Digital signaling: TTL, I2C, SPI
Differential signaling: LVDS, ECL, USB, PCIe
RAM: DDR, DDR2, DDR3

Instructor

Dr Royan Ong

Course Schedule

Consultancy

Technical Consultancy

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  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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