Advanced Hardware and PCB Design Masterclass 2022 -EsteemPCB

Advanced Hardware Design Course Part-1 RK3399 COB (LPDDR4 SDRAM, WIFI/BT, EMMC, PMIC, 260 Pin DDR4 System on Module)

Created by: Aviral Mishra
SOM/COM/DIMM Designer, YouTube Content Creator at EsteemPCB

What Will I Learn?

• How to Extract Selection information from Requirement Sheet for Processor, SDRAMs, EMMC, WIFI/BT modules etc.
• How to Choose a Processor by Defining its No. of Core, Cache, Bandwidth, Clock requirements.
• Different Architecture of Processor for Ex. Little-big, and Memory Organization.
• Types of Internal and External SDRAMs (DDRX, LPDDRX, and their Enhanced versions).
• Comparisons of External SDRAMs up-to DDR5 and LPDDR5
• Different Signal Groups of SDRAM (Data, Address & command, Control and Clock Groups)
• Develop a Set Procedure on selection of SDRAM, PMIC, EMMC, WIFI Module, Processor for Mobile Application.
• How to Read the Datasheet of Different components used in this Board RK3399, 2GB LPDDR4 SDRAM, 16GB EMMC, PMIC, WIFI/BT Module etc.
• Pin Mapping of SDRAM, EMMC, SDIOs, MIPIs, EDPs, Type-C, USB3.0 & 2.0, SDMMC etc. with RK3399 on a Simple Excel Sheet.
• How to Design the Schematic of Processor, SDRAM, EMMC, WIFI, PMIC using their Respective datasheets and Design Guidelines Documents.
• Discussion of Different WIFI/BT Module Certification and Regulation as per US, Europe, Canada etc.
• Impedance Profile Planning of More than 1000 interconnects on a Excel Sheet.
• Layer Stack up (4/6/8/12L), Finish the Components Placement Planning and its Execution.
• Layout Planning, Preliminary Layout, High Speed Design Rules and Length Matching, Power Plane Planning by Sections, Optimization of Layout Loop-1 and Loop-2
• FAN-OUT of #828 Balls of RK3399, #200 Balls of LPDDR4 SDRAM and #180 Balls of EMMC.

Requirements

• Student should have Understanding of Board Design.
• Student should have Completed the Complex Mixed Signal Board Design Course.
• Student should have Patience and Determination to complete the course which has more than 10,000 interconnects and Lot of Dense Components to route.
• For this course Student should have "Altium Designer" Installed on their PC / Laptop
• You do not need any prior knowledge of "Altium Designer" because we'll going to do everything from scratch.

Target audience

• People who have Intermediate experience with Hardware design and want to learn it
• People Who want to Learn High-Speed Board Design
• People who want to learn PCB designing
• People who want to Learn How to Select Components out of millions of chip available
• People Who wan to Learn How Create a Board on Altium Designer.
• People who want to enhance their Electronic Hardware Designing Skills.
• People want to Learn Impedance Profile, Length Matching, High-Speed Design Rules, Complex Layout, Advanced Layout Design etc.