Just wanted to say: Thank you for this content. I'm an electrical engineer and it saddens me how every year there are fewer and fewer EE students and more and more CS students. This is the type of content that can get people excited for electrical engineering. I will likely recommend this to many of the new college grads I work with. We use one of these Zynq ultrascale chips on some of our more complex boards at work and when they see that schematic for the first time they panic a bit. School never prepared them for reviewing boards with this level of complexity. This course should help demystify it quite a bit.
This course is probably too advanced for me, but I will probably still buy it to support you. I have already learned a lot from you through this channel, so you deserve it!
Phil, you had me at Lesson 5 🙂 and after that, it was the gift that kept on giving. I almost stopped the video to go and make the purchase. It looks a fantastic body of work and well worthy of a purchase. It looks to have been worth the wait. I'm off to buy the course. Thank you Phil your an inspiration
Thank you very much, Dean! I really hope it's been worth the wait. Please do let me know how you like the course, once you've worked your way through it! Thanks :)
I'm a mechanical engineer and currently learning the basics of electrical engineering & design on my own. Your channel is a blessing and I suspect I will soon take your mixed signals course too and not think of it any different.
Same here, mechanical design is good for a day job but gets boring at times. Electrical design in my spare time fills that gap when my brain needs something challenging.
I feel this is the kind of training you usually only do in your company because it costs so much, maybe thousands of dollars. But here it's pretty afordable. Very nice, I will definitely buy it... but I still need to do the first one ;) Thank you very much. Your free videos are already such a big help.
This is awesome! I have been following you for a year now and I'm about to finish my EE degree. Thanks to your videos I got 100% on the university's introductory PCB design course by documenting the process of upgrading my old PCB project with better PCB design practices. Though it is mostly DIP and TH because I wanted to hand-solder it so I'm definitely lacking in the high speed and more dense PCB department. There's a vacancy open for a PCB designer at the company I work for. I don't know if I should apply now or wait until I finish my degree in about a month and maybe go through your courses (I still have the mixed-signal one bookmarked) - so much stress and so little time during finals month! I definitely want to go through this course in either case when I get the time.
Congratulations on your 100%! I'd say go for the open position and practice your PCB design skills while you're waiting to hear back/interview. As long as you have a portfolio of your own designs to show, I think you have a good chance :)
From Aerospace engineering background to EE translation is not easy, but for the past year I have found your Channel, it help me tremendously in improving my PCB design skill and understanding. Sure will dive in this course. Thank you very much.
hey Phil thank you a lot for your efforts. I 've been waiting for a long time this course to be released. I like your teaching style with high quality content.definitely I will buy it not only for supporting you but also step up myself on designing advanced boards. hope to see more courses like this with other topics such as pcie rf camera lvds interfaces
!!!!!!!! Euforic momment ... Was waiting for the course for a long time. You had me at the survey for the course content heheheh... So definitely buying it. Although I'm still using KiCad for being free, I will do the course following your steps with Altium's free trial software and redo it with KiCad. Once more thanks for your hard work and investing your time in making this course...
Thank you for this course and all the hard work put into it. It contains a wealth of information presented clearly. I was wondering if you could present more videos involving mixed-signal and RF design. Designs that might involve discrete components, and maybe covering some of high-speed interfaces like LVDS, JESD. Much appreciated.
Im currently learning vhdl to create a custom vga controller. It will be a mixed signal circuit board. When the project is working on the breadboard I will 100% purchase and use this. This is the knowledge Ive been looking for!!!
I'm looking forward to joining this. Sad you had to use Altium, but I understand that is how you can offer it at such a good price. I'll do the extra work to translate my understanding to KiCAD :) Many thanks!
Thank you for putting this course out there. Do you plan to create a follow up course on how to develop the firmware for this board's ZYNQ, maybe a basic ethernet application?
Could you offer a manufacturing service partnership for making our own versions of this board manufactured at an affordable price ? I am good at soldering but I guess soldering such an FPGA alone is impossible. Or are we supposed to make another board entirely while following the course ?
Would this course be suitable for a Computer Engineering fresh graduate who had limited experience during University designing SoCs and FPGA projects and wants to dive into this world?
Hi Huzeifa, I'm sorry to hear that - I'll ask the guys at Fedevel if there's anything we can do about that. Could you please send me an email (phil@phils-lab.net) with your details?
current junior in electrical and computer engineering. I got an internship this summer and it is going to revolve around this stuff, but I still dont know that much. Would the previous course / free material from your youtube, be where I start?
Hi Thomas, I'd suggest started with the free YT material (in particular, the ~3hr long Altium/KiCad complete walkthroughs). Once you've made a couple of your own PCBs, the mixed-signal course is the next step, followed by the advanced course.
Hey Phil, have you considered making a comprehensive beginner level course that could help people first starting out from scratch and maybe bridge the gap to the more advanced courses you offer? It seems a little difficult to find a nicely laid out starting course for people starting out and I think there's a need that isn't being met in this area currently
Hi Matt, I haven't done 'absolute beginner' material yet. However, I hope the videos on my channel (+ practice) are enough to get started with PCB design, and also then to elevate that to an intermediate level.
Hi phil, First, thanks a lot for your investment and passion. I will definitely buy your course and the first one about mixed signal routing. If I have questions during my learning, how can I ask you ? is there a forum or anything like that ? I use to learn on Udemy and it is really easy to ask the teacher for something.
Thank you for your comment and support! There is a Fedevel Phil's Lab forum: designhelp.fedevel.com/forum/fedevel-education-courses/phil-s-lab Otherwise, you can also send me an email at phil@phils-lab.net if you are a course student.
Hi Phil! I was going to buy the course but now I can't do it. My question is: The platform says that for the online option the availability is 6 months and can be extended by 1 month. If I want to review a video in the future will I not be able to? In my case is it better to buy online and download? Thank you for your content, it’s a pleasure to contribute to your content! 😊
Hi Sergio, Thanks for your comment. If you'd like lifetime access, then yes, you'd need to go with the 'online and download' option. The online-only version gives you access for 6 months, and then anytime in the future, you can extend the course for 1 month. Thanks for your support! Phil
Hey Phil, cool content as always! I wanted some info regarding multiplexing the CC lines on USB-C PD Devices i.e. Connecting 2 USB PD Devices (different power requirements) to 1 USB PD Source. Is it possible?
If you've followed the YT channel vids (incl. KiCad or Altium Designer full tutorials), have successfully designed your own MCU-based PCBs, then I'd suggest starting with the Mixed-Signal HW design course. Once you're comfortable with MCU-based designs and want to try out BGA-based, high-speed designs, the advanced course is the one to go for.
Hello I am an mechanical engineering student and i am interested to learn about PCB design and Embedded systems because i am working on a robotic project for my final year college major project. Is this course helpful for me ?
Depending on your background and the complexity of the circuit this may be too advanced. I'd recommend to start with his videos on STM32 boards in case you haven't checked them out yet.
As darkrasen stated, I'd recommend starting with the videos on my channel covering the 'basics' (e.g. the full walkthroughs of an STM32-based design), then practising those designs on your own, before moving on to the courses.
Are there any plans for the next course? I just bought this one and I'm already thinking about the future ones haha. :) Also, are you planning to finish your EMI Test Board project? It's been a long time since you uploaded that video...
Haha thank you, Bernard. Courses take me quite a while to make, so nothing planned for this year anymore. Potentially a 'practical DSP' course for the next year, which goes from absolute basics & theory to full implementations on embedded systems. Not sure how much interest there would be for that though! Yes, I've been meaning to finish that and still need to send boards to Min Zhang for testing. Sorry about the delay.
Hey Phil, I want to buy this course or the other more basic course. But I have very little PCB knowledge and very basic electronics experience. I don't know when to use copper pour vs trace, heat sinks etc and not sure where to start. Will these courses help?
Is it actually possible to lay out and take to manufacture a board as complex as this, using KiCAD? Does KiCAD have all the features needed to complete the entire design flow on this board?
@@PhilsLab Hi, could you tell us what are the features you would miss doing this in KiCad ? Can these features be found in free software ? (for example the saturn PCB toolkit)
I've tried to make the course as tool-independent as possible, showing how to create a well-designed, functional high-speed PCB, rather than showing how to use a particular tool. So yes, regardless of the tool you use, you'll be able to follow along.
That course seems amazing but too much costly for me as a student. i wish it could be around 50$, i could have afford. Whatever , love ur works brother. keep it up. 😊
@@PhilsLab Both don't work for me, but I recently played around with a filtered DNS over HTTPS router setting and maybe it is simply blocking the request. I will have to try disabling this filter list on the AdGuard DoH
Just wanted to say: Thank you for this content. I'm an electrical engineer and it saddens me how every year there are fewer and fewer EE students and more and more CS students. This is the type of content that can get people excited for electrical engineering. I will likely recommend this to many of the new college grads I work with. We use one of these Zynq ultrascale chips on some of our more complex boards at work and when they see that schematic for the first time they panic a bit. School never prepared them for reviewing boards with this level of complexity. This course should help demystify it quite a bit.
Thank you very much for the hard work. You don't know how much of a perfect timing this is. I will definitely buy the course.
Thank you very much!
This course is probably too advanced for me, but I will probably still buy it to support you. I have already learned a lot from you through this channel, so you deserve it!
Thank you very much, Matheo!
Phil, you had me at Lesson 5 🙂 and after that, it was the gift that kept on giving. I almost stopped the video to go and make the purchase. It looks a fantastic body of work and well worthy of a purchase. It looks to have been worth the wait. I'm off to buy the course. Thank you Phil your an inspiration
Thank you very much, Dean! I really hope it's been worth the wait. Please do let me know how you like the course, once you've worked your way through it! Thanks :)
The course looks fantastic. I will work on this once I'm through your Mixed Signal Design Course! It's got a ton of relevant content I can apply now.
We just bought this for our company. It will be a great tool for training our current and future engineers. Thanks for the work you put into this.
Thank you very much for your support! I hope you guys like the course!
Happy to avail it now. Im glad you had this content offered to us. Kudos Phillip.
Thank you very much, Ian!
Very nice! My company paid me a similar course for over 3k, so this course is very cheap.
Will definitely buy also this course for private usage.
Thank you for your support, Max!
I'm a mechanical engineer and currently learning the basics of electrical engineering & design on my own. Your channel is a blessing and I suspect I will soon take your mixed signals course too and not think of it any different.
Thank you very much, Nazarii!
Same here, mechanical design is good for a day job but gets boring at times. Electrical design in my spare time fills that gap when my brain needs something challenging.
I feel this is the kind of training you usually only do in your company because it costs so much, maybe thousands of dollars. But here it's pretty afordable.
Very nice, I will definitely buy it... but I still need to do the first one ;)
Thank you very much. Your free videos are already such a big help.
Thank you! Yes, I hope this is affordable to most and brings down the cost of otherwise quite expensive training material.
You are amazing. Thank you for the detailed and easy to follow explanation and tutorials. It is a pleasure to listen to you.
Thank you very much!
This is awesome! I have been following you for a year now and I'm about to finish my EE degree. Thanks to your videos I got 100% on the university's introductory PCB design course by documenting the process of upgrading my old PCB project with better PCB design practices. Though it is mostly DIP and TH because I wanted to hand-solder it so I'm definitely lacking in the high speed and more dense PCB department.
There's a vacancy open for a PCB designer at the company I work for. I don't know if I should apply now or wait until I finish my degree in about a month and maybe go through your courses (I still have the mixed-signal one bookmarked) - so much stress and so little time during finals month! I definitely want to go through this course in either case when I get the time.
Congratulations on your 100%!
I'd say go for the open position and practice your PCB design skills while you're waiting to hear back/interview. As long as you have a portfolio of your own designs to show, I think you have a good chance :)
Yes!! Thank you! I've been looking forward to this course. Time to get started right away.
Thank you, hope you like the course!
From Aerospace engineering background to EE translation is not easy, but for the past year I have found your Channel, it help me tremendously in improving my PCB design skill and understanding. Sure will dive in this course. Thank you very much.
Thank you very much - glad to hear the content has been helpful!
I will definitely buy the course after I complete my master thesis. Thanks Phil
Thank you very much!
God bless you Phil, this is an amazing course. Absolutely purchasing & very happy to support such an amazing source of information !
Thank you very much, Sebastian - I hope it lives up to your expectations! :)
hey Phil thank you a lot for your efforts. I 've been waiting for a long time this course to be released. I like your teaching style with high quality content.definitely I will buy it not only for supporting you but also step up myself on designing advanced boards. hope to see more courses like this with other topics
such as pcie rf camera lvds interfaces
Thank you very much, Mustafa!
!!!!!!!! Euforic momment ... Was waiting for the course for a long time. You had me at the survey for the course content heheheh... So definitely buying it. Although I'm still using KiCad for being free, I will do the course following your steps with Altium's free trial software and redo it with KiCad.
Once more thanks for your hard work and investing your time in making this course...
Thank you, Ricardo and thank you for your patience! Please let me know how you like the course.
Brilliant, looking forward to this course 👏👏👌
Thanks Phil, I have been waiting for this course. Thanks for your hardwork, investment and passion. Keep up with the good work.
Thank you very much!
Thank you for this course and all the hard work put into it. It contains a wealth of information presented clearly. I was wondering if you could present more videos involving mixed-signal and RF design. Designs that might involve discrete components, and maybe covering some of high-speed interfaces like LVDS, JESD. Much appreciated.
Was waiting for this, thanks
Thanks phil. Been waiting for this course.
Thank you, hope it's worth the wait!
Loved the first course. Looking forward to taking this one in the future.
Thank you!
Looking forward taking the course!
Tremendously excited to purchase this!
Thank you, Mark!
I HAVE BEEN WATING FOR THIS DAY🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Hope it's been worth the wait :D
@@PhilsLab Thank you!!! Im so excited haha.
Im currently learning vhdl to create a custom vga controller. It will be a mixed signal circuit board. When the project is working on the breadboard I will 100% purchase and use this. This is the knowledge Ive been looking for!!!
Thank you so much - good luck with your design!
Can’t wait!
Thanks, Lex!
I Love You and you are very good teacher. I wish my former Prof. from my university has 15% of your knowledge . THANKS (:
Thank you very much for your kind comment :)
Definitely going to take the course!
Thank you for your support!
I saw it yesterday when getting the basic course :)
Thanks for your support :)
Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏
Thanks for watching!
Nice! I am really looking for an advanced course. I am going to take it. Thank you!
Awesome, thank you very much!
I'm looking forward to joining this. Sad you had to use Altium, but I understand that is how you can offer it at such a good price. I'll do the extra work to translate my understanding to KiCAD :) Many thanks!
i would buy if I could. well worth the money.
Thank you for putting this course out there. Do you plan to create a follow up course on how to develop the firmware for this board's ZYNQ, maybe a basic ethernet application?
Check out the 'FPGA' playlist on my channel. I do a pretty complete board bring-up for this board (incl. Ethernet, embedded Linux, and so on).
yep gonna buy it
Thank you!
Sweet, I'll be taking thhis!
Awesome, thank you!
Awesome
Could you offer a manufacturing service partnership for making our own versions of this board manufactured at an affordable price ? I am good at soldering but I guess soldering such an FPGA alone is impossible. Or are we supposed to make another board entirely while following the course ?
This is awesome
Thank you!
Would this course be suitable for a Computer Engineering fresh graduate who had limited experience during University designing SoCs and FPGA projects and wants to dive into this world?
Are the project files included with the course to follow along?
Hi Phil,
Thanks for creating this course. Unfortunately, payment is not supported in Kenya. Could you advise on other mode of payments?
Hi Huzeifa, I'm sorry to hear that - I'll ask the guys at Fedevel if there's anything we can do about that. Could you please send me an email (phil@phils-lab.net) with your details?
@@PhilsLab Thank you Phil🙏
Will there be any documentation next to the video lessons like pdf Documents and schematics?
Yes, I provide schematics, Gerber files, PDF plots, assembly drawings, and any files/links that the relevant lesson requires.
current junior in electrical and computer engineering. I got an internship this summer and it is going to revolve around this stuff, but I still dont know that much. Would the previous course / free material from your youtube, be where I start?
Hi Thomas, I'd suggest started with the free YT material (in particular, the ~3hr long Altium/KiCad complete walkthroughs). Once you've made a couple of your own PCBs, the mixed-signal course is the next step, followed by the advanced course.
@@PhilsLab Thank you so much! That was very helpful. My goal is to eventually end up making a custom flight controller pcb for fpv drones!
Hey Phil, have you considered making a comprehensive beginner level course that could help people first starting out from scratch and maybe bridge the gap to the more advanced courses you offer? It seems a little difficult to find a nicely laid out starting course for people starting out and I think there's a need that isn't being met in this area currently
Hi Matt, I haven't done 'absolute beginner' material yet. However, I hope the videos on my channel (+ practice) are enough to get started with PCB design, and also then to elevate that to an intermediate level.
Is the course done with Altium?
Hi phil,
First, thanks a lot for your investment and passion. I will definitely buy your course and the first one about mixed signal routing. If I have questions during my learning, how can I ask you ? is there a forum or anything like that ? I use to learn on Udemy and it is really easy to ask the teacher for something.
Thank you for your comment and support! There is a Fedevel Phil's Lab forum: designhelp.fedevel.com/forum/fedevel-education-courses/phil-s-lab
Otherwise, you can also send me an email at phil@phils-lab.net if you are a course student.
Hi Phil, can you tell me if you also sell the hardware, PCB etc?
Hi Phil!
I was going to buy the course but now I can't do it. My question is:
The platform says that for the online option the availability is 6 months and can be extended by 1 month.
If I want to review a video in the future will I not be able to?
In my case is it better to buy online and download?
Thank you for your content, it’s a pleasure to contribute to your content! 😊
Hi Sergio, Thanks for your comment. If you'd like lifetime access, then yes, you'd need to go with the 'online and download' option.
The online-only version gives you access for 6 months, and then anytime in the future, you can extend the course for 1 month.
Thanks for your support!
Phil
Hey Phil, cool content as always! I wanted some info regarding multiplexing the CC lines on USB-C PD Devices i.e. Connecting 2 USB PD Devices (different power requirements) to 1 USB PD Source. Is it possible?
Any links to start a basic design course then? Can jump after that to your course
If you've followed the YT channel vids (incl. KiCad or Altium Designer full tutorials), have successfully designed your own MCU-based PCBs, then I'd suggest starting with the Mixed-Signal HW design course. Once you're comfortable with MCU-based designs and want to try out BGA-based, high-speed designs, the advanced course is the one to go for.
Hello
I am an mechanical engineering student and i am interested to learn about PCB design and Embedded systems because i am working on a robotic project for my final year college major project. Is this course helpful for me ?
Depending on your background and the complexity of the circuit this may be too advanced. I'd recommend to start with his videos on STM32 boards in case you haven't checked them out yet.
As darkrasen stated, I'd recommend starting with the videos on my channel covering the 'basics' (e.g. the full walkthroughs of an STM32-based design), then practising those designs on your own, before moving on to the courses.
Are there any plans for the next course? I just bought this one and I'm already thinking about the future ones haha. :)
Also, are you planning to finish your EMI Test Board project? It's been a long time since you uploaded that video...
Haha thank you, Bernard. Courses take me quite a while to make, so nothing planned for this year anymore. Potentially a 'practical DSP' course for the next year, which goes from absolute basics & theory to full implementations on embedded systems. Not sure how much interest there would be for that though!
Yes, I've been meaning to finish that and still need to send boards to Min Zhang for testing. Sorry about the delay.
Hey Phil, I want to buy this course or the other more basic course. But I have very little PCB knowledge and very basic electronics experience. I don't know when to use copper pour vs trace, heat sinks etc and not sure where to start. Will these courses help?
Hey, I'd suggest starting with the free YT vids, creating a number of your own designs, and only then moving on to the courses.
Is it actually possible to lay out and take to manufacture a board as complex as this, using KiCAD? Does KiCAD have all the features needed to complete the entire design flow on this board?
Yeah, KiCad will be able to do this. However, there are a few features I would miss doing this in KiCad.
@@PhilsLab Hi, could you tell us what are the features you would miss doing this in KiCad ? Can these features be found in free software ? (for example the saturn PCB toolkit)
i do not have eagle cad license can kicad do the trick?
I've tried to make the course as tool-agnostic as possible (by putting principles first, that don't depend on the tool), so any ECAD tool can be used.
@@PhilsLab oh ok so tool doesn't matter with this course thank you!
Hello, is there English subtitles available for the "Advanced Digital Hardware Design" course?
They are currently being worked on!
Is it possible to follow this course without altium designer? I am currently using kicad.
I've tried to make the course as tool-independent as possible, showing how to create a well-designed, functional high-speed PCB, rather than showing how to use a particular tool. So yes, regardless of the tool you use, you'll be able to follow along.
Looking for a long time for this type of couse, I just see all the index that is actual things i am looking for....
You've been busy 🙂 You mentioned Linux, at the end when to boards come in ... will Linux run?
I have a bring-up series with this board on the channel (FPGA playlist) and yes, embedded Linux does run on it!
That course seems amazing but too much costly for me as a student. i wish it could be around 50$, i could have afford. Whatever , love ur works brother. keep it up. 😊
is this course available on Udemy ?
I'm afraid not.
Can we also buy a ZettBrett board?
I need to get some more made and then I'll aim to make them available for everyone.
The course links dont work for me. Not sure if it is just me.
Which one in particular didn't work? Could you please try phils-lab-shop.fedevel.education - that should direct to the course page.
@@PhilsLab Both don't work for me, but I recently played around with a filtered DNS over HTTPS router setting and maybe it is simply blocking the request. I will have to try disabling this filter list on the AdGuard DoH
Hmm hopefully that's just because of the router settings. I've tried on multiple devices, browsers, etc.. and they've all worked for me.
@@PhilsLab Yeah I think it works now, something was acting really weird on my end but it works now.
Could you give us long time fans of your channel
a coupon code for the Fedevel site please?
Could you please send me an email (phil@phils-lab.net) and we'll sort something out!
@@PhilsLab
I did Phil.
Awaiting your reply.
any coupons code for students ?
Sure - send me an email (phil@phils-lab.net) and we'll sort something out!
@@PhilsLab And what about patreons?
Yes, there's a code for Patreons as well. I made a post this week in the Patreon group, but you can also send me an email if you prefer.
price in euro?
👍🙏❤
uhum uhum so any chance of getting the good old "poor african student" discount ey ?
this is awesome