ECE5973-Session 06: PCB Design Principles and Practices using Altium Designer

PCB Design Principles and Practices using Altium Designer
ECE5973
University of Oklahoma
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
Bridging the gap between industry and academia by helping our future engineers to build the right skills for their future engineering career.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This comprehensive class teaches variety of essential topics and will expand on in-depth topics to advance the attendees knowledge of using Altium Designer Schematic Capture and PCB Layout tools. The class will also dive into more challenging topics including mixed-signal high-speed PCB design considerations and techniques, differential pair routing, length matching, signal integrity aspects, circuit replication with multi-channel design, and design for manufacturing (DFM) techniques.
The class is associated with several in-depth exercises that are used to explain and reinforce design techniques and to enable trainees to practice new features and techniques and explore more complex Altium Designer capabilities as they build a complete design from schematic to PCB including manufacturing output files.
TOPICS:
The class will cover all essential and advanced subjects needed to build a highly-reliable PCB design using Altium Designer. A variety of topics will be covered in each session or on multiple sessions. This will include, but not limited, the following topics:
Schematic Design Flow
Layout Design Flow
Create Schematic Design
Create Layout Design
Placement and Re-annotation
Routing (Manual-route, Active-route, and Auto-route)
VIAs (Through, VIA-in-PAD, Micro, Buried, and Blind)
VIA Stitching and Net Shielding
Compiling & Verifying PCB Design
Electrical Rules Check (ERC) Engine
Layer Stackup Manager
Create Integrated Libraries
Importing, Exporting, and Editing 3D models
Differential-Pairs and Busses Routing
Cross Talk in Differential Pairs
Differential and Common Signals
EMI and Common Signals
EMC and Signal Integrity in High-speed Electronics
Modular Approach to Simplify PCB Design Process
Output Generation (Documentation, Fabrication, Assembly, Netlist, BOM, etc)
Planning Layout for high speed interfaces, wide buses, power distribution, etc.
Best Practices for Mixed-Signal Grounding
Calculating and minimizing Crosstalk
Impedance Control
PCBs design using high-density interconnect (HDI) techniques
Signal Integrity and Differential Pair Routing (Length Matching, Parallel Routing, Electrical Clearance and Creepage) in High-Speed PCB Design.
Design Guidelines for Successful Manufacturing