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How Complex Motherboards Are Designed

What is on motherboards and server boards, how they work and how they are designed. Explained by Istvan Nagy
Chapters:
  • 00:00What is this video about
  • 00:49What is a complex design
  • 08:22PC Motherboard described
  • 12:39Power
  • 16:03Power states
  • 21:10Laptop vs. Standard PC
  • 23:07Thermal management
  • 27:06I2C
  • 29:33Memories and timing
  • 39:25x86 vs. other architectures
  • 42:06Industrial motherboards
  • 45:30Backplanes
  • 47:38High speed signals, signal integrity, simulations
  • 54:39QUCS simulator
  • 56:23SPI, JTAG
  • 58:32How many schematic pages and what is there
  • 1:01:40SERDES
  • 1:06:43Power supplies
  • 1:18:19Reliability issues, testing and measuring
  • 1:24:29Debugging
  • 1:24:40PCB materials
  • 1:33:06Floor planning
  • 1:37:54You power it up and it doesn't work
  • 1:45:02Measuring by probes
  • 1:47:20Open Compute Project OPC
  • 1:49:15Istvan's book