Name: Rick Hartley Seminar 2025
Start: 2025-05-13T09:00
End: 2025-05-14T17:00
Location: Coppid Beech Hotel John Nike Way Bracknell

Seminar Description

The 2 day seminar will take place in Copenhagen on 23rd – 24th of October 2024 at the Clarion Copenhagen Airport Hotel. The instructor will be Zachariah Peterson, a well-known PCB design expert, and electronics design consultant. Aside from being a familiar face on Altium’s instructional videos, Zachariah’s consultancy assists electronics manufacturers and OEMs, providing strategy, and highly technical content.

Introduction to new participants

These sessions have been developed by Zachariah Peterson based on years of experience building and deploying real systems, original research and publications, and based on input from other experts in the field. The courses will present the core concepts required for success in PCB design as interface speeds continue to increase and formerly specialized SI problems become more common. The course concepts span from real layout practices to analysis concepts and topics in EMI/EMC and manufacturing.

Introduction to past participants

The sessions have been updated from our previous 2-day seminar in 2023 to include topics in packaging/IC substrates, flex PCBs with hatched planes, package/die models, and RF designs integrated with digital on HDI PCBs.

High-speed design introduction

Introduction to the courses: high-speed PCB design
When does a circuit board become “advanced”
Influence of stackup on high-speed PCBs
PCB layout issues that affect SI
PCB layout issues that also affect EMI

Differential pair/high-speed interface design

Basics of differential pairs
Termination and coupling
Impedance calculations
Length matching limits (Serial interface vs. groups of pairs)
Differential crosstalk
Mode conversion
Differential vias vs. single-ended vias
Routing and return paths – splits in planes, routing over cut up power planes, etc.
Differential pairs and SI on flex PCBs

Fundamental transmission line theory

Basics of transmission lines
Equations for impedance (how they are derived, etc.)
Including losses and wideband interconnect design
Lossless to lossy transformations
Single-ended to differential transformations
Via design, stubs
Transfer functions and impulse response
Package models
Channel bandwidth vs. signal bandwidth
Why critical length is misleading
How to use TDR and S-parameters to debug channels

Signal integrity in HDI boards and IC substrates

Overview of HDI stackups and IC substrate structures
HDI vs. ultra-HDI
Impedance and crosstalk penalties
Fine-line limit where no ground plane is needed
How SI changes in thin vs thick layers
Connector/signal launch footprints with examples
TEM limits in packaging footprints/ballouts
HDI routing and skip-layer routing

High-frequency/RF design

RF fundamentals (signals, component types, parasitics, system impedance)
Stackups and transmission lines (PTFE vs. hybrid)
Power and PCB layout for RF/mixed-signal systems
Impedance matching networks and losses in different frequency ranges
Noise, power budgets, and routing
Vias and stubs for RF vs. digital
RF in HDI PCBs
Oscillators and power amplifiers
Bias tees
Power dividers
Phased arrays and other phase-sensitive devices
Substrate integrated waveguides
Patch antennas, slot antennas, coax-fed antennas

AGENDA

Overview of the seminar

EVENT: PCB Design Seminar – 2 Days

DATES: 23rd – 24th of October 2024

VENUE: Clarion Hotel Copenhagen Airport

DEADLINE: 22 September for “Early Bird” Price

Price for Attending

For Seminar, Reception Dinner, and Lunches (does not include hotel)
!!!You can get Hotel discounts, by using below discount code!!!

€850 – If registered after 22 September
(no prepayment required… simply register and we will invoice!)

Attendee Registration Click Here

Hotel Stay at Venue (Clarion Copenhagen Airport)

Hotel Booking Dates: 22 Oct – 25 Oct

Link for hotel booking: https://hotelscopenhagenairport.dk/

Discount Code: AZITECH (for 15% discount)

Seminar Description

Introduction to new participants

Introduction to past participants

AGENDA

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