FEDEVEL Academy – Advanced PCB Layout Course 2014

This course covers all the important subjects you need to know for Advanced PCB Layout:

• Placement (how to place CPU, memories, power supplies, connectors, protection, etc.)

• Basic Rules & Basic Stackup (initial rules and stackup settings to start your layout)

• Fanout under CPU (how to do placement and fanout in high-density areas)

• DDR3 preliminary layout (deciding on how to use layers, pin & bank swapping, … )

• Board fanout (how to do fanout, good practice and recommendations)

• Planning Layout (how to plan layout for high speed interfaces, wide buses, power distribution, … )

• Crosstalk (how to calculate and minimize crosstalk)

• Impedances & Stackup (how to calculate impedance and decide on stackup)

• High Speed Design Rules & Routing (recommendations & examples for high speed design layout)

• Layer ordering (how to decide on layer ordering)

• Number of layers (how to decide on number of layers)

• Layout (recommendations on routing different peripherals & buses, Powers, … )

• Length matching (DDR2/3, PCIE, HMDI, LVDS, GbE, … )

• About memory routing (T-branch vs Fly-by topology, calibration, … )

• Polygons & Power Planes (how to work with polygons & planes, what is important, useful rules, … )

• Checking PCB (recommendations for checking your PCB)

• Length tuning (differential pair length tuning, finishing memory layout, … )

• Finishing PCB (adding useful information e.g. manufacturing notes, mechanical drawing layer, … )

• Generating & Checking gerber files (how to generate gerber files, tips about how to check them, …. )