Raspberry Pi RP2040 Hardware Design | Altium Designer | JLCPCB - Phil's Lab #28

How to design a minimalistic PCB for the new Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller (MCU) including a buck (step-down) converter. Covers all aspects of schematic, layout, and routing in Altium Designer.

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00:00 Introduction
00:52 Altium Designer
01:19 RP2040 Design Help
02:46 Schematic: Power Supply
05:16 Schematic: RP2040
09:18 Schematic: QSPI Flash Memory
10:37 PCB: Overview
11:18 PCB: Stack-Up
11:55 PCB: Buck Converter
13:45 PCB: RP2040
15:40 PCB: Crystal
16:43 PCB: QSPI Flash Memory
17:07 PCB: USB
17:36 PCB: Additional Tips
18:30 Outro

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[PhilsLab]

This channel will still feature KiCad videos but I‘d like to show other PCB design tools, such as Altium Designer, as well. I believe most of my videos are there to give hardware/PCB design/engineering tips rather than tool-specific tips, so what software I use to me is secondary. Altium Designer is what I use for work and also mainly in my spare time, but I still try to make many designs in KiCad - I like both pieces of software. Thanks for watching and let me know your thoughts! :)

[swastiksingh]

this man makes PCB designing into an intricate art with his videos

[Avriox]

Every time I need some sort of MCU in my designs I come back to your videos and follow your guidelines. Love it! Keep it up man. Your videos are most certainly amongst the best!

[lastairbender]

You are doing really a huge support to RP2040 community . I can't thank you enough. I'm user of Raspberry Pi Pico & enjoying it. I am into extreme resource constrained devices & thinking about designing another board around RP2040. Thanks a lot for doing this. And showing us other tools like Altium 🤩🤗

[tomnicholls]

Great video Phil 👍Glad to see you went with the RP2040 suggestion 😉 exited to see what carrier board you conjure up and what you plan to do with it.

[claudiotalle]

Probably the best video, or among them, on how to approach correctly to PCB design in Altium. Straight to the point and without missing details. I had to stop and re-watch some parts because accessing some feature with the complexity of Altium, requires some understanding. Repeting the steps, everything goes straight. Great Video.

[akindiranolanrewajujohnson]

Appreciate your great effort to carry along. I haven't watched it to two minutes, yet I have never been disappointed on this channel.

Thanks for awesome time spare to make things work, . . . thoroughly impacting

[thenoisyelectron]

Fantastic content Phil! You're firing out quality material like a fire-hose!

[PATRIKKALLBACK]

Nice work! I would love to use Altium but it's a bit outside my budger so I stick with KiCAD.

[slipperynickels]

thanks for this. i’m planning on building an rp2040 into a g-key m.2 form factor for a modular project i’m working on, so i’ll probably be referring to this a lot early on.

[MikeNugget]

Thank you for this video! I've recently thought just about how to make own PCB with RP chip.

[deviliscool]

programming and pannelisation for both kicad and Altium would be interesting. i have my own ways of pannelisation but would be interesting to see the variation on how other people choose to do it in both EDA's

[RoboticsLive]

Hey Phil, Your videos are very much knowledgeable and I really enjoy them. Can you do a video or maybe a video series on single board computer like raspberry pi PCB design ? It's hard to find good material on that topic. Thanks.

[neildarlow]

I saw what you did with the board naming. 😊

These devices are too good to resist at their price-point.

I've added them to my existing options of STM32F411 and ESP32 so I can cover most scenarios.

[codewithdaniel-]

Hi phil great work..I loved your long videos on kickad, I wish you would do the same with Altium so that beginners can learn from components placing to routing. Anyway thanks ❤️

[housseinbenabdelhamid]

Length matching the QSPI signals is highly recommended

[backdemoletor]

Yep, this is one of my favourite channels

[adaminsanoff]

Whatever you do, you do it right. So keep doing.

[MeeBilt]

Brilliant video, thanks!
I'm just about to pull the trigger on making my own STM32 design from scratch - and now this turns up to mess up my brain completely ! 😂

[NivagSwerdna]

Oh dear... you've gone back to the dark side using Altium... that's a shame because I found your KiCad ones particularly useful.