A practical walkthrough of the printed-circuit-board design flow — concept, block diagram, schematic and libraries, layout, placement, routing, SI/PI, DFM checks, fab export, incoming inspection, and board bring-up, plus the optional ISO 26262 functional-safety overlay for boards, with the tools used at each step and a glossary.
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Designing a Board End-to-End in KiCad
A practical end-to-end walkthrough of designing a printed circuit board in KiCad — project setup, schematic capture and ERC, footprint assignment, updating the PCB, board setup, placement, routing, DRC, 3D check, and generating Gerbers, drill, BOM, and pick-and-place for the fab.
Process Geometry: What a Chip ‘Node’ Really Means
What a semiconductor process node actually is, how transistors evolved from planar to FinFET to gate-all-around, the FEOL/BEOL layer stack, why design rules and DRC exist, and how process geometry shapes every chip design decision.