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[LIVE] How to Achieve Proper Grounding - Rick Hartley - Expert Live Training (US)

Altium · 1M views · 2019-11-11 · 2:19:51

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Overview

Rick Hartley gives a roughly two-hour live training on proper grounding in PCB design. He explains how energy actually flows in the space between conductors, and how that governs noise, EMI, return paths and signal reflections.

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Hailed as the best video on electrical engineering and an essential, eye-opening watch for anyone designing high-speed boards.

Recommended by 9 HN people across 10 months · HN mentions 2021–2025

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Electronics & circuit design
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groundingpcb designemisignal integrityreturn pathshigh-speed design

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davidhyde · 2024-11 · Strong recommendation

Admittedly I ended up building a board with a microcontroller rather than a microprocessor because I could interface with the modem over spi too. However, this YouTube channel was great to work through: [LINK] It has some high speed stuff with ddr memory, fpga’s gigabit Ethernet and usb3 too so I’m pretty sure you could use the same concepts to build a board with a microprocessor on it. Proper grounding, emi, impedance control and length matching are well explained. I think he has some more advanced courses via his website too. Additionally, this was an ah-ha moment video for me: [VIDEO]

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genter · 2023-12 · Strong recommendation

Not directly answering your question, but on preventing emission in the first place (and the best video I've ever seen on electrical engineering): [VIDEO]

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brunooo · 2023-11 · Strong recommendation

For anyone who cares enough to watch a 2 hour video on it and hasn’t seen it yet, this Rick Hartley video is the recent gold standard of explaining the issues at play: [VIDEO]

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