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TOP 3 Welldone Blog Videos
WOOW, we have reached 100 Posts on Welldone Blog and 400 000 Views on Youtube. Thank you guys! Here are the TOP 3 HW Design Videos Altium Designer Tutorial: Start Schematic & PCB Layout (39 195...
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PCB Layout Fast Forward – DDR3 Memory
A unique view on PCB layout process. Screenshots captured during iMX6 Module design … and more will come Martin has just graduated and I am helping him to learn HW design. This is all his work – well...
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PCB Layout Planning – How to decide on what Layers should we use
WOW – Planning layout, that sounds really scary but it can actually save you a lot of time. This video will show you, how you can do it with your next project. Let me know what you think about it
View ArticleFEDEVEL Academy: Schematic & PCB Design Course – Starting now
Thank you everyone for supporting this blog and our courses. We would not exists without you! – Robert How to register for the Schematic & PCB Design Course? Step 1: Register at FEDEVEL Academy...
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Design your own Intel x86 motherboard
Did you know, Intel has a free tool called Embedded Board Planner? Through a web interface, you can for example design your own Intel Atom based processor board. It will even generate a schematic for...
View ArticlePCB Soldering with a Hot Air Gun
How to solder BGA and QFN components at home or at your LAB with inexpensive hot air gun? I made this video tutorial for you, so you can try it by yourself.
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x86 Custom Board Design – How long it takes?
I am always curious to see some statistics from projects I have done. As I book all my hours into a system, it’s not very difficult to prepare some interesting graphs. Here they are …. “Once you have...
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10 Tips for Better Schematic Checking – Processor Boards
1 ) Tricky power Be aware of the power rail, which powers a particular pin. A wrong connection can cause current leaking, not defined signal level or can prevent board from booting. Check how the pin...
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Altium – How to Create Net Class and Differential Pair Class
Why to create a NetClass? Net Classes are very useful during layout – by one click you can select whole interface (e.g. UART1, SD card, …. ) or a group of special signals (DATA BANK 0, 1, 2, …). You...
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Online Advanced PCB Layout Course, by Motherboard Designer
Hi, I am thinking to share my knowledge from motherboard and processor board design. Would you be interested? What & How will you learn You will learn how to do Advanced PCB Layout (CPU, DDR3,...
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Community website for HW Design
Did you hear about SnapEDA? Great idea – FREE CAD library, schematic symbols, simulation models, reference designs, professional network, manufacturing, …. I am very curious where this project will go....
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3 STEPS How to determine / calculate number of PCB layers
STEP 1: Choose initial number of layers 1 or 2 Layer PCBs – Home prototyping Use 1 or 2 Layer PCB only for very simple boards, breakouts or for some circuits which you are making at home. Don’t use 1...
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Download High Speed Altium Project with DDR3, PCIE, SATA, HDMI, LVDS, …
Complete Altium files can be downloaded at http://www.imx6rex.com/ It’s our open source project: based on Freescale i.MX6 CPU, 12 Layer High Speed Design with micro VIAs, DDR3, SATA, PCIE, Gb...
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Hardware Design Directory Template
Visual version of the FEDEVEL Directory Template. This directory template helps you organize your documentation. It also helps engineers to generate high standards and consistent outputs. Download...
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i.MX6 Module Layout – Complete PCB Routing [Video]
This video shows complete layout process of a module based on iMX6 Freescale CPU. What you can see: 0:08 – 0:11 Memory fanouts 0:11 – 0:16 Processor fanouts, component placement under CPU 0:16 – 0:25...
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8 Steps to Bring up your Board to Life
This is a real video, from bringing up iMX6 Rex board to Life. Step 1: Visual inspection What to look for: if all the the components for your VARIANT are correctly fitted, if all the pin 1 are placed...
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A great video from Assembling one of our boards
A big thank you to our assembly house AMSET for taking this video and building high quality boards. Enjoy this 1 minute video
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How does ARM boot?
There are some differences between processors, but concept stays similar. Step 1: Internal bootloader Based on bootstrap resistors (or/and eFuses) an internal bootloader (stored in CPU ROM) determines...
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4 STEPS How to verify DDR3 memory layout of your board – using a software
What is the best way to test DDR3 interface by running a memory test? STEP 1: Do DDR3 calibration Before you start with any testing, be sure you did DDR3 calibration. Every layout is different and...
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