Fedevel — Advanced PCB Layout with Altium Designer

Fedevel — Advanced PCB Layout with Altium Designer

Advanced printed-circuit-board layout training with Altium Designer, delivered by motherboard design engineer Robert Feranec.

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Placement: positioning the CPU, memories, power supplies, connectors, protection components and related circuitry
Basic Rules and Basic Stackup: initial design rules and stackup settings
CPU Fanout: placement and fanout in high-density areas
DDR3 Preliminary Layout: layer use, pin swapping and bank swapping
Board Fanout: fanout techniques, good practices and recommendations
Planning the Layout: high-speed interfaces, wide buses and power distribution
Crosstalk: calculation and minimization
Impedance and Stackup: impedance calculation and stackup decisions
High-Speed Design Rules and Routing: recommendations and examples
Layer Ordering
Selecting the Number of Layers
Layout: routing peripherals, buses and power
Length Matching: DDR2/3, PCIe, HDMI, LVDS and Gigabit Ethernet
Memory Routing: T-branch and fly-by topologies, calibration and related considerations
Polygons and Power Planes: working practices and useful rules
PCB Checking: recommendations for design review
Length Tuning: differential-pair tuning and completion of memory routing
Finishing the PCB: manufacturing notes, mechanical drawing layers and supporting information
Generating and Checking Gerber Files