Bogatin's Practical Guide to Prototype Breadboard and PCB Design
The following are a collection of videos and downloads that are associated with the textbook, Bogatin's Practical Guide to Prototype Breadboard and PCB Design, published by Artech, in 2021. These videos and downloads are meant to go with the book but are here to give you a taste of the content in the book.
This textbook is the definitive guide to building your engineering understanding of the essential principles of designing prototype electronic circuits when interconnects are not transparent. This book is an introduction to the signal integrity principles behind switching noise which is the most important problem interconnects create. Learn how to engineer solderless breadboard and printed circuit board prototypes to reduce risk and increase your chance of success.
If you find any of these videos of value, you will want to purchase this textbook to gain that fundamental understanding all engineers need to excel as designers.
Here is a tour a commercial PCB fab and see how printed circuit boards are manufactured - page 55.
Here is Bogatin's Altium Live Keynote about signal integrity lives in the white space - page 57.
View this experiment illustrating how to measure ground bounce and how the layout influences the amount of cross talk - page 71.
Read this article about the myth of three capacitor values - page 79.
Read this editorial about what it takes to be a successful SI engineer - page 94.
A bandwidth rule of thumb example can be found here - page 97.
View this video about electrical short and long interconnects and how well simple lumped circuit elements match the behavior of interconnects, up to some bandwidth - page 98.
An online calculator for resistance, capacitance and loop inductance of the signal-return path conductors for four geometries can be found here - page 99.
Calculate the loop inductance of a signal-return path using this calculator - page 100.
A Wiki list of wire diameters for different gauges can be found here - page 101.
View this experiment about how much cross talk there is between long floppy loops when probing circuit boards - page 105.
If you find any of these videos of value, you will want to purchase this textbook to gain that fundamental understanding all engineers need to excel as designers.
Here is a link to get instant quotes on PCB fabrication - page 123: https://www.pcbway.com/
View this video in which I walk you through how to evaluate the fabrication capabilities of fab shops - page 123.
Get the Saturn PCB tool here: https://saturnpcb.com/saturn-pcb-toolkit/
View this video in which I walk you through using the Saturn PCB tool - page 130.
In this video, I do an experiment to blow up some traces and measure the current carrying capacity of 6 mil wide traces. I also show what thermal runaway looks like - page 140.
In this video, I walk through the principle of sheet resistance and why it is such a useful term to characterize copper sheets and to estimate trace resistance page 152.
In this video, I walk you through the 2-wire and 4-wire methods of measuring resistance and how we can use the 4-wire method to measure very low resistances - page 156.
I walk you though a simple method of reverse engineering the Thevenin voltage and resistance of two power sources - page 163.
Read this article on capacitor value selection - page 210.
If you find any of these videos of value, you will want to purchase this textbook to gain that fundamental understanding all engineers need to excel as designers.
Visit Analog Devices LTSpice Tutorial playlist here - page 225.
In this video, I walk you through how to set up a simple RLC circuit in the free simulator, Circuit Lab, and run a simulation - page 225.
NE555 timer datasheet can be found here - page 227.
Sparkfun breadboard can be found here - page 243.
In this demo, I show an example of the switching noise occurring with long jumper wires when the return paths are worst-case and then optimized - page 251.
Assorted colored wires can be found here - page 260.
In this video, I show how easy it is to create short wires as needed to connect components in a solderless breadboard - page 263.
In this video, I walk you through how switching noise is created by mutual inductance between two loops - page 277.
Read this article on where return current flows - page 283.
In this video, I demonstrate the difference in switching noise between a separate, common return trace, and a return plane - page 287.
Use this calculator to calculate the loop inductance of a circular loop of wire - page 298.
Use this calculator to calculate the loop inductance of two round, parallel circular wires of some length - page 298 .
Use this calculator to calculate the loop inductance of two coplanar conductor strips - page 298 .
If you find any of these videos of value, you will want to purchase this textbook to gain that fundamental understanding all engineers need to excel as designers.
In this video, I show how PDN noise is measured on a solderless breadboard and the role of decoupling capacitors - page 308.
Read this article on the myth of three capacitor values - page 335.
Read this article on testing for common signal integrity problems - page 379.
SMD names and pictures of packages can be found here - page 389.
Read this article on SMD and through hole parts - page 392.
Read this article on various SMD part labels - page 392.
Read this article from Topline about part names - page 392.
Read this article on IC packages and what is inside from Sparkfun - page 392.
Read this article on putting the naming of parts in perspective - page 395.
Here is a 51 Ohm resistor, cheap - page 398.
Here is a 51 Ohm resistor, expensive - page 398 .
In this video, I walk you through how to find that 1 in a million resistor - page 405.
In this video, I walk you through how to find that 1 in a million capacitor - page 408.
PDBway Gerber view can be found here - page 457.
Advanced circuits DFM checker can be found here - page 457.
DRC for electrical performance can be found here - page 457.
Read this article on 90 degree bends in circuit board traces - page 460.
Read this article on fab vendors will oftentimes add thieving pads, if requested, by Lee Ritchey - page 464.
Read this article on the myth of three capacitors - page 465.
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Line taken from the famous movie, Casablanca - page 504.