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phil's lab

9 videos. Ranked by independent recommendations, not by views.

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   1 Switching Regulator PCB Design - Phil's Lab #60

   Phil’s Lab 21 people · 20 months · since Jun 2022

   Handed to designers whose regulator layouts get criticised in board reviews, as a clear guide to tight placement and using copper shapes rather than thin traces.

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   2 (Sponsored) KiCad STM32 + USB + Buck Converter PCB Design and JLCPCB Assembly - Phil's Lab #11

   Phil’s Lab 22 people · 17 months · since Sept 2020

   Praised as a full walkthrough of one microcontroller board in free software, from schematic and routing to ordering it factory assembled, and for explaining the reasoning.

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   3 (Sponsored) USB Hub Design Walkthrough - Phil's Lab #86

   Phil’s Lab 5 people · 5 months · since Feb 2023

   Phil's Lab walkthrough of a USB 2.0 hub, valued as a reference design and for showing how to route differential pairs to the right impedance.

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   4 PCB Design for EMI and Signal Integrity - Phil's Lab #64

   Phil’s Lab 4 people · 4 months · since Jul 2022

   Phil's Lab's concise overview of designing boards for EMI and signal integrity, covering stackup and return paths, and regularly suggested after layout reviews.

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   5 2-Layer PCB Design Tips - Phil's Lab #137

   Phil’s Lab 4 people · 4 months · since Sept 2024

   Repeatedly prescribed by reviewers to people with weak first layouts, as a solid grounding in routing and laying out two-layer boards, part of the wider Phil's Lab run.

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   6 (Sponsored) ESD Protection Basics - TVS Diode Selection & Routing - Phil's Lab #75

   Phil’s Lab 3 people · 3 months · since Nov 2022

   Phil's Lab video recommended for understanding TVS diodes and choosing parts for circuit protection, especially the clamping voltage, and pointed to in PCB design reviews.

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   7 I2C Hardware & PCB Design - Phil's Lab #132

   Phil’s Lab 3 people · 3 months · since Jul 2024

   A Phil's Lab video suggested for I2C hardware design, especially choosing pull-up values against bus capacitance and judging how careful the routing needs to be.

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   8 (Sponsored) STM32 I2S ADC DMA & Double Buffering - DSP with STM32 #4 - Phil's Lab #55

   Phil’s Lab 3 people · 3 months · since Apr 2022

   Part of a Phil's Lab series, recommended for practical digital signal processing on microcontrollers, including audio handled through DMA callbacks and double buffering.

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   9 (Sponsored) Mixed-Signal Hardware/PCB Design Tips - Phil's Lab #88

   Phil’s Lab 3 people · 3 months · since Jul 2023

   Phil's Lab is recommended in board reviews for its advice on arranging analogue and digital sections and keeping the ground plane clean on mixed-signal designs.