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Can You Be a Great SCH & PCB Layout Engineer? How?

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What is your advice? 5 top questions from people asking how to become a great engineer.

How To Improve Your PCB Layout – Power Planes

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Commenting on a PCB Layout done by a junior engineer + some tips for power plane layout.

How GND VIAs Improve Your PCB Layout

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See how a stitching VIA helps to control return current path.

PCB Layout & Decoupling – Measuring and Fixing (Part 3)

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How to fix the noise on power pin by measuring PDN impedance.

What Every PCB Designer Should Know – Return Current Path (with Eric Bogatin)

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Discussion with Eric Bogatin about why return currents flow under tracks… and more… Links: – Eric Bogatin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-bogatin-368860/ – Eric’s classes: https://www.bethesignal.com/bogatin/ – AltiumLive: https://www.altium.com/summit/

Does Return Current Flow Under Signals? Watch these examples…

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I always wanted to see if for higher frequencies currents really flow under signals. And, here it is …

PCB Layout & Decoupling – Understanding Impedance (Part 2)

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When capacitor is an inductor …

PCB Layout & Decoupling – Explained why it’s so complicated (Part 1)

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Change the way how you look at powers on your board.

How to do BGA fanout – VIAs & Layers

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What you may want to think about when doing BGA fanout… Links: – Using VIA in PAD? What you need to know – Guidelines, dimensions and more –  How to Route DDR3 Memory and CPU fan-out –  Review of Server PCB Layout & Schematic – Part 6: DDR4 Memory Layout & CPU Power – PCB Layout Planning – How to decide on what Layers we should use