Serving Eastern Massachusetts
Course Description
| Course Name: | Practical RF PCB Design: Wireless Networks, Products and Telecommunication |
| Time & Date: | 9:00am to 4:30PM, Wednesday & Thursday, Dec. 15 & 16 |
| Location: | Holiday Inn Select Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Rd, Woburn, MA |
| Speaker: | Henry Lau, Lexiwave Technology |
Course Summary:
One of the most demanding consumer products in the market is the wireless telecommunication product. A well-designed Radio Frequency Printed Circuit Board (RF PCB) contributes significantly to the success of any wireless product as the layout of the PCB greatly affects the performance, stability and reliability of the product. In today’s highly competitive wireless products market with increasingly compressed development time-frame, there is a strong demand for RF professionals who possess the knowledge and experience to design top-performing RF PCBs in less number of iterations. What matters is whether your level of competence is up to the required standard to meet such demand.
Audience:
RF Designers, Wireless Product Designers, Field Application Engineers, Design Managers and related professionals.
Benefits:
This course aims to provide participants with an insightful training on RF PCB design from a practical, industrial perspective. Participants will be led through a systematic, theoretical presentation with case studies on commercial products in the training. The course will be conducted by an RF expert with rich industrial experience. It is suitable for RF professionals who want to keep up-to-date their skills and knowledge in RF PCB design and stay competitive.
Outline
1. Printed circuit board design for RF circuits
- circuit design, schematic diagram to PCB design
- single / double side component placement
- best utilization of board area
- arrangement of layers
- trace routing : length minimization and width maximization
- grounding and ground plane
- power line routing and power plane
- decoupling
- via holes : location, size and quantity
- shielding
- design examples
2. Printed circuits board design for analog and digital circuits
- analog circuits
- component placement
- isolation of weak / strong signals / noise /
- differential pair
- linear / switching power supply
- digital circuits
- digital noise : clock, signal and power
- decoupling
- design examples
3. PCB design of RF sub-circuit evaluation and prototyping
- Design of demo board and evaluation board :
- Performance maximization
- Circuit design
- Component selection
- Component placement
- Routing, grounding and shielding
- Connectors and connection
- Design examples
4. Mechanical design
- chassis design for maximum board area
- placement of components, antenna, and input / output connectors
- mounting, mechanical strength
- heat sink / ventilation / heat transfer / thermo relief
5. PCB design for mass production
- single / double side component placement
- single / double side surface mounted components for wave soldering / reflow soldering
- test points and test pins
Expertise:
Henry Lau received his M.Sc. and MBA degrees from UK and USA respectively. He has more than 21 years of experience in designing RF systems, products and RFICs in both Hong Kong and US. He worked for Motorola and Conexant in US as Principal Engineer on developing RFICs for cellular phone and silicon tuner applications. Mr Lau holds five patents and has one patent pending, all in RF designs. He is currently running Lexiwave Technology, a fables semiconductor company in Hong Kong and US designing and selling RFICs, RF modules and RF solutions. He has also been teaching numerous RF-related courses internationally.
Handouts and coffee breaks are included with course registration
Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Monday, December 6, 2010
FEES
Payment received by December 1: IEEE Members $375
Payment received by December 1: Non-members $425
Payment received after December 1: IEEE Members $425
Payment received after December 1: Non-members $475