EEVblog #1323 - PCB Layout Review & Analysis

Dave analyses a PCB layout from the EEVblog forum and covers all sorts of tips for SMD layout, component placement, routing, layer stackup, controlled impedance traces, supply planes and power bypassing.

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[StreuB]

Young engineers will understand this and older ones might not but mentoring is so unbelievably important that I cannot stress it enough. This type of "Everyone grab a cup of coffee and head to the conference room in 5min" video is unbelievably helpful. Its literally like the boss told the group of junior engineers to head to the conference room to go over a random layout one of the new guys is doing to go over as a working example. This is crash course learning at its finest. Everything is boiled down to an essence.

Dave, you are doing a service. The floating talking head BTW is perfect. Anything else for a video like this just wouldn't have worked. Everything on this video was 100.

Thank you!

[bengrant]

I have to say Dave, the green-screen was worth every penny in this vid, excellent placement!

[vpcnc]

I feel like analyzing designs & workflows is a really underrated kind of learning. Great video & thank you for sharing

[jusaca]

Seriously, the way you look down to the PCB from this little floating head is so hilarious! I think it's great :D
And cool content, thanks for that! I guess I kind of knew most of what you said in this video already, but it's still a very neat overview with a lot of reminders to the little details. Will probably help me with my next designs ;)

[fedimakni]

Thank you for this video, as an engineer i will highly appreciate more design videos and design's review as it gives more information to all of us.
I will also highly appreciate more advanced and complicated things for (non beginner people). Thanks for all the information you gave us all these years.

[edgar]

Great video! 10 most important PCB design rules by showing how not to do it. And after you explain it it's all so obvious. Thanks Dave!

[toastrecon]

Thanks, Dave! I'm just in the curious stage with wanting to start designing a PCB sometime in the future, and stuff like this is really fascinating.

[FixDaily]

This series could happen more often, this is great learning from Dave.

[fuzzydk]

I'll often connect bypass caps to an ICs power pins but not connect the pins to power until after an initial
placement of components on the pcb, that way the rast nets clearly show what pin an cap belongs together

[prengineer]

These are definitely my favourite EEV videos. Great for two reasons; reinforces the things I do know, and it's rare I'll watch one and not pick up 2 or 3 new things. Love it. Keep up the great work.

[trevorkinman]

My boss is giving me my first PCB design project starting next week, this is perfectly timed!

[pmaurin]

This is the kind of video that keeps me coming back. Awesome Dave!

[FurkanBahadr]

it's 4 am at my local timezone and this video drops. nothing better to watch at the moment. i have no life.

[Dave]

This kind of video was about 50% of the reason I subscribed. Thanks, it's been a while.
I especially like your ideology for routing traces. I will soon be laying out the first 4 layer PCB I've done in years and this type of video helps with remembering how to make the decisions with prioritization and overall layout.

[jgibson]

Green-screen looks great. 👍🏽 Can it be mirrored so your head moves with the point-of-interest? 9:35 you noticed it, my learning style really appreciates you using this.

[ilyas.]

The USB-to-Serial chip is CH340, and its CH340C version is exactly the same SO-16 as others, but doesn't need an external crystal, it has an internal one, the XTAL pins just stay NC! The chip is available on LCSC

[thekaduu]

Those decoupling caps around the image sensor looks like they are playing musical chairs.

[AdoobII]

I have graduated a few months ago, but I've known you for years now. you are my role model Dave, please keep doing these. I have learned stuff that would've taken years of mistakes from these videos. thank you.

[kstxevolution]

this is the sort of stuff that made me watch Dave all these years

[Islander]

This is an excellent piratical tutorial. I learned a lot in something I haven't had to think of in decades.