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Bogatin's Practical Guide to Prototype Breadboard and PCB Design
Printed circuit boards (PCB) are at the heart of every electronic product manufactured today. Yet, engineers rarely learn to design PCBs from a class or course. They learn it by doing, by reading app notes, watching YouTube videos and sitting by the side of an experienced engineer.
This book is the foundation building book for all engineers starting out to design PCBs. It teaches good habits designing a PCB, first for connectivity, and secondly, introduces the four most important principles to reduce noise.
A seven-step process is developing a plan of record, creating a Bill of Materials, completing the schematic, completing the layout, completing the assembly, conducting bring up and troubleshooting and documenting the project. Each step is developed in detail. In particular, the emphasis in this book is on risk what can be done at each step of the process to reduce the risk of a hard-error which requires a complete re-spin, or a soft error, which requires some sort of on-the-fly repair.
After connectivity is designed, it’s important to develop good habits to minimize the potential noise from ground bounce, power rail stitching noise, stack up design and reducing switching noise in signal paths. These techniques apply to all designs from 2-layer to 8-layer and more, for bandwidths below 200 MHz.
The best practices for manual lead-free soldering are presented so that everyone can become a soldering expert.
The best measurement practices using common lab instruments such as the DMM, the constant current/constant voltage power supply, and oscilloscopes are presented so that common artifacts are minimized. Features in the design that help you find design or assembly errors quickly and the troubleshooting techniques to find and fix problems are introduced.
Applying the habits presented in this book will help every engineer design their next circuit board faster, with less chance of an unexpected problem, with the lowest noise. This textbook will also have embedded videos to visually demonstrate many of the hands-on processes introduced in this book.
This book is the foundation building book for all engineers starting out to design PCBs. It teaches good habits designing a PCB, first for connectivity, and secondly, introduces the four most important principles to reduce noise.
A seven-step process is developing a plan of record, creating a Bill of Materials, completing the schematic, completing the layout, completing the assembly, conducting bring up and troubleshooting and documenting the project. Each step is developed in detail. In particular, the emphasis in this book is on risk what can be done at each step of the process to reduce the risk of a hard-error which requires a complete re-spin, or a soft error, which requires some sort of on-the-fly repair.
After connectivity is designed, it’s important to develop good habits to minimize the potential noise from ground bounce, power rail stitching noise, stack up design and reducing switching noise in signal paths. These techniques apply to all designs from 2-layer to 8-layer and more, for bandwidths below 200 MHz.
The best practices for manual lead-free soldering are presented so that everyone can become a soldering expert.
The best measurement practices using common lab instruments such as the DMM, the constant current/constant voltage power supply, and oscilloscopes are presented so that common artifacts are minimized. Features in the design that help you find design or assembly errors quickly and the troubleshooting techniques to find and fix problems are introduced.
Applying the habits presented in this book will help every engineer design their next circuit board faster, with less chance of an unexpected problem, with the lowest noise. This textbook will also have embedded videos to visually demonstrate many of the hands-on processes introduced in this book.
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Published September 30, 2021
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April 18, 2023
For someone looking to get their head around PCB design, this is a GREAT book by Professor Eric Bogatin.
Factually, this is in the "very small area of interest" category at a local library, and it's not easy to find even online, so it's expensive. It's worth it though, as Prof. Bogatin does a great job explaining via interconnects, SMD soldering and some basic + advanced things at the same time which is great.
This isn't a page-turner ;-) but it's not meant to be. The author does a good job of acknowledging that though and I think he's written it as conversationally as possible. There are 1,000 electronics books out there which really cover the theory (moreso than anything) which isn't very helpful to someone wanting to invent a new product - as I am looking to do. My use case is that I know how to code an embedded controller just fine but wiring and ensuring that everything doesn't get cross-talk and works effectively.. for that purpose, it works perfect for me. Lastly, I don't have a vast electronics knowledge, I've picked up a few things, and this book does a great job I think of covering a lot of territory for those at multiple skill levels.
Well done.
Factually, this is in the "very small area of interest" category at a local library, and it's not easy to find even online, so it's expensive. It's worth it though, as Prof. Bogatin does a great job explaining via interconnects, SMD soldering and some basic + advanced things at the same time which is great.
This isn't a page-turner ;-) but it's not meant to be. The author does a good job of acknowledging that though and I think he's written it as conversationally as possible. There are 1,000 electronics books out there which really cover the theory (moreso than anything) which isn't very helpful to someone wanting to invent a new product - as I am looking to do. My use case is that I know how to code an embedded controller just fine but wiring and ensuring that everything doesn't get cross-talk and works effectively.. for that purpose, it works perfect for me. Lastly, I don't have a vast electronics knowledge, I've picked up a few things, and this book does a great job I think of covering a lot of territory for those at multiple skill levels.
Well done.
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