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Ken Burns has published 7 hardware projects on Kickstarter. He explains how it works.
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://tinycircuits.com/">Ken's company TinyCircuits</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://fedevel.com/courses">FEDEVEL Online courses</a></li>
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Can You Make Money on Kickstarter HW Projects?

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Interesting experiments and examples to help you to understand ground layout in PCB. Explained by Hans Rosenberg
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            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">00:00</span><span class="chapters-text">What is this video about</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">00:19</span><span class="chapters-text">Currents flow under track</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">03:10</span><span class="chapters-text">What happen when you are making a board</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">08:37</span><span class="chapters-text">Where currents flow</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">14:01</span><span class="chapters-text">Experiment: Cut under track</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">19:51</span><span class="chapters-text">Floating copper fill</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">23:15</span><span class="chapters-text">Grounded copper fill</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">27:04</span><span class="chapters-text">Experiment: Filter</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">35:05</span><span class="chapters-text">2 Layer vs. 4 Layer</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">44:00</span><span class="chapters-text">3 rules to prevent ground problems</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">46:05</span><span class="chapters-text">Example: Ground plane</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">49:52</span><span class="chapters-text">Example: 1 VIA per GND pin</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">54:46</span><span class="chapters-text">Example: Gap in GND plane</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">1:02:00</span><span class="chapters-text">Example: FPGA board redesign</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">1:05:16</span><span class="chapters-text">Star grounding</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">1:07:39</span><span class="chapters-text">Multiple ground planes</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">1:14:30</span><span class="chapters-text">Example: Digital and Analog on one board</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">1:16:40</span><span class="chapters-text">About Hans</span></li>
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@HansRosenberg74">Hans´ YouTube</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.hans-rosenberg.com/">Hans´ website</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://fedevel.com/courses">FEDEVEL Online courses</a></li>
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Examples of BAD Ground in PCB Layout And How to Fix It

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What will happen if you don't have enough GND pins on your connector?
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/bogatin/">About Eric</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://fedevel.com/courses">FEDEVEL Online courses</a></li>
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Do You Design Connector Pinout Correctly? | Eric Bogatin

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        This video explains how to setup a Length Matching Rule and do Interactive Length Tuning in Altium Designer.
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">00:00</span><span class="chapters-text">Introduction</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">00:41</span><span class="chapters-text">Data Bank</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">02:10</span><span class="chapters-text">Yellow Color</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">02:36</span><span class="chapters-text">Interactive Length Tuning</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">03:36</span><span class="chapters-text">Changing Parameters</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">05:07</span><span class="chapters-text">Adjusting the Waves</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">05:55</span><span class="chapters-text">Adjusting the Length</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">07:14</span><span class="chapters-text">Outro</span>
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Length Matching in Altium

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        You know that. Your boss asked you to design a board with high speed interfaces which you have never used before … or … you have a board with problems like crashing or rebooting itself – you tried everything and you dont know how to fix it … or … you simply just want to learn high speed design. Maybe, this is the training which could help you …
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        <h2 class="blog-content-heading">What will you learn?</h2>
        You will learn how to do <a href="https://fedevel.com/courses/advanced-pcb-layout-course">High Speed Design PCB Layout in Altium</a> (DDR3, PCIE, SATA, Ethernet, etc.).<br><br>

        This course covers the important subjects you need to know for a practical high speed PCB layout:
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            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">What is important in high speed design</span></li>
            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">Crosstalk (how to calculate crosstalk)</span></li>
            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">Stackup (how to design stackup, number of layers, layer ordering)</span></li>
            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">Impedance (how to calculate impedance)</span></li>
            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">Differential pair routing (how to do differential pair routing, recommended rules for PCIE, SATA, GbE, …, length matching)</span></li>
            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">DDR2 / DDR3 memory layout (how to do memory layout, rules, topology, fanout, pin swapping, length matching, a few words about simulating memory interface)</span></li>
            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">The most common high speed design rules (how to route high speed signals, buses, clocks, …)</span></li>
            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">Layout process</span></li>
            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">Testing boards and HW verification</span></li>
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        <b>How to register for this online course?</b><br>
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            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text"><a href="https://fedevel.com/">Step 1: Register & Login at FEDEVEL website</a></span></li>
            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text"><a href="https://fedevel.com/courses/advanced-pcb-layout-course">Step 2: Select your course (you will need to be logged in)</a></span></li>
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://fedevel.com/courses/advanced-pcb-layout-course">High Speed Design PCB Layout in Altium</a></li>
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Altium Training – Advanced High Speed Design

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        Have you ever wanted to export your PCB from Altium into a 3D PDF? This video explains how you can do that …. <br><br>

        Update! For Altium 15.1 and up, read <a href="http://www.fedevel.com/welldoneblog/2015/07/altium-how-to-generate-3d-pdf-its-easy/">Altium – How to generate 3D PDF – It’s Easy</a>.
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="http://www.fedevel.com/welldoneblog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Export-3D-model-from-Altium-to-PDF-Example.pdf">Here you can download the 3D PDF from the example in the video</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="http://get.adobe.com/sk/reader/">You may need Adobe Reader to see the file in 3D!</a></li>
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