How Complex Motherboards Are Designed

What is on motherboards and server boards, how they work and how they are designed. Explained by Istvan Nagy

Links:

• Istvan's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Complex-Digital-Hardware-Design-Istvan/dp/1032702087
• FEDEVEL courses: https://fedevel.com/courses

Other links:

• Istvan's calculators and QUCS templates: https://www.buenos.extra.hu/mycalculators.html
• Open Compute project server and switch card designs: https://www.opencompute.org/contributions
• TopJtag Probe software: http://www.topjtag.com/probe/
• Istvan's website and FPGA card: https://buenos.extra.hu/s6bfboard.htm
• The Open Hardware Repository https://ohwr.org/explore

Chapters: 00:00 What is this video about 00:49 What is a complex design 08:22 PC Motherboard described 12:39 Power 16:03 Power states 21:10 Laptop vs. Standard PC 23:07 Thermal management 27:06 I2C 29:33 Memories and timing 39:25 x86 vs. other architectures 42:06 Industrial motherboards 45:30 Backplanes 47:38 High speed signals, signal integrity, simulations 54:39 QUCS simulator 56:23 SPI, JTAG 58:32 How many schematic pages and what is there 1:01:40 SERDES 1:06:43 Power supplies 1:18:19 Reliability issues, testing and measuring 1:24:29 Debugging 1:29:40 PCB materials 1:33:06 Floor planning 1:37:54 You power it up and it doesn't work 1:45:02 Measuring by probes 1:47:20 Open Compute Project OPC 1:49:15 Istvan's book

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