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[@payloh_3328]

This mans knowledge is remarkable.

[@MacRabbitPro]

This are one of the best 2:20h I spent in my professional life. Thank you!

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[@gudimetlakowshik3617]

Title: How to achieve proper grounding Topics covered: Signal integrity cross talk EMI digital/ananlog topics layer stackups Best video I've ever seen. Thanks Altium for beautiful effort of bringing industry experts to an open platform. Thanks alot

[@engsam7759]

the 4th time i watched this and every time I pick up new info !! THANK YOU .

[@Ratkill]

How the hell you gonna drop these mind bombs on me for 2 hours straight. This video just now was a pivotal point in my understanding of electronics. This is the kind of thing the internet was made for.

[@edcet06]

This is gold. Thank you Rick

[@educationdz202]

This is probably one of the best lecture in Electronics, I've learned so much, thank you very much indeed.

[@DEtchells]

Wow, this was a complete paradigm change in my thinking, it instantly gave me an entirely different understanding of signal (noise) propagation on circuit boards! I can’t recall the last time I had such a sudden burst of comprehension, it was an amazing experience. *Huge* kudos and thanks for the presentation!!

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[@MsAndy60]

I've been a designer since the 80s. I have been working in Altium since its release. (A mixed and power electronics designer). I haven’t seen anything more exciting, I was stuck for two hours. Lots of adrenaline. Detectives are resting! Thank you for the material. Much is familiar and has long been intuitively understood. I developed some of my own triks and solved problems differently. But here is a wonderful systematization of the life experience of a wonderful designer on the way from a teapot to a pro!! I understand it and remember every one of my mistakes and every crazy PCB. At some point I realized that the EMC laboratory should be behind my back, and not from someone for money. I assembled it, and the work went much faster. Thank you so much again!

[@deangreenhough3479]

Mind-blowing content. I am just starting out in Hardware design professionally. This is what I have been looking for, 55 years of experience eloquently delivered. Thank you, Rick

[@xhivo97]

Check out Robert Feranec's channel as well.

[@garygranato9164]

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[@cachve1154]

Rick Hartley is the best. He looks so good.

[@JeremieFrancois]

This really is a superb, and enlightening presentation. ONE THOUSAND THANKS. Rare and precious material that changed my view on electronics and my routing jobs.

[@Philip8888888]

Mind blown. Amazing how you can learn how much you didn't know and change how you view things completely at the same time.

[@fuizipra]

I feel like my brain just expanded to double the size Great talk

[@kleberburgos]

I felt I was not only learning, but being enlightened. Thank you Mr. Hartley! Please Altium, we need more content from this Guru.

[@MicaCZ]

Excellent training!

[@Mohammad-vh4bi]

It was one of the best tutorials I have seen on KZbin. Thanks a lot.

[@thisisnonpractice]

What a presentation!!

[@peterlaidlaw8655]

Very excellent, thank you very much for sharing this.

[@ujjwalpratik242]

Thanks for this amazing talk!!

[@brucetouzel6484]

thank you for presenting complex information in an understandable format

[@xXRedyzXx]

Love this format, keep up the great work

[@RiyadhElalami]

Amazing, we need more like this stuff, I wish I was one I would have asked a few questions.

[@shantk7378]

Absolutely fantastic.

[@markw208]

I was lucky enough to be at some of Rick’s seminars while I was at Compaq and Hewlett-Packard. Very informative. I still have his guide book

[@GiGaSzS]

Thank you for sharing this invaluable information.

[@mitchelllague5499]

Thank you Rick for this golden information!

[@johnbaillie5141]

Unbelievable - this is GOLD

[@smithright]

This is blowing my mind. Keep up the amazing work!!! 🚀

[@LTVoyager]

I was fortunate to have taken a course early in my career back in the late 80s taught by Prof. Tom Van Doren on Grounding and Shielding. He covers most of these same concepts, but in more detail given that it was a two-day course rather than two hours. Very useful for control engineering and instrumentation as well as PCB design.

[@tarunsharma9943]

Very Informative. Thank you Rick!

[@turneroq9888]

I spend all my New Year celebration with this super interesting man. Thank you for sharing such content!

[@achimbuchweisel2736]

THANKS a lot. This has been so educational! A lot of mysteries have been solved that I've been carrying around.

[@danstiurca7963]

Thank you for great information!

[@mltonsorangestapler]

This is a fire broadcast, I enjoyed this thoroughly

[@sinaaghli]

omg this is such an amazing talk, thanks for sharing.

[@Nguyencongkhoai]

It one of the most amazing videos I've ever seen on youtube

[@takisbakalis]

He is THE man

[@youdonotknowmyname9663]

I learned more about good PCB design in these 2,5 hours then in all the years at school! Yes, it is for free, but all of this knowledge is priceless and very valuable!

[@JUSTMUSICTODAY-oh1iq]

Great job and appreciate it

[@Chrls5]

WOW, i just learnt how wrong my concept of grounds are!!! Mind Blown! Thanks Rick Hartley, super interesting and awesome content!!

[@C0deC0w]

Thank you for this excellent information. Really appreciate it 👍

[@tobiasschneider7367]

Amazing!

[@camdenarey2341]

I went to sleep and woke up to this ty for the best time of my life God loves you

[@mohamedalioueche4165]

Awesome 😁 thank you mister Rick.

[@rfengr00]

Great presentation. At 32:00 there is an interesting effect not discussed. At very low frequencies the Z0 goes up (nonlinearly) due to finite R and G as frequency approaches zero; a low frequency dispersion. You can see this effect on some RF VNA that go down to 300 kHz or lower.

[@michaelcrookes1350]

Thanks Altium and Rick. This is one of the best PCB tutorials I've seen. Only wish I'd seen it years ago. For me it brought together all those little tips I've been told since the start of my career but actually explained why - with some great tips that I hadn't been told as well.

[@ongdaniel5273]

Thanks for this great video! really learned a lot from this video.

[@arkansassignalintegritycom408]

Very impressed with Altium this year. It's like they won 2019 World Series. Killin' it.

[@user-cc8kb]

Thank you very much. This was amazing!

[@BM-jy6cb]

This is truly excellent content. A goldmine for any PCB designer. Thank you.

[@Hewagej]

Really nice video Thanks

[@Graham_Wideman]

7:00 the question of should you attach the cable shield to chassis or to circuit ground, for which Rick's answer is always to the chassis (and for good reasons). That's all very well, so long as this cable is not designed to carry the signal return (slash ground reference voltage) on the shield, like several standards for audio cables do, for example. In that situation, you don't want the shield conductor to connect the chassis of two pieces of equipment that are plugged into mains, where their chassis are individually connected to the ground pin of two different wall outlets, thus introducing a ground loop, and a hum voltage that adds to the audio signal being communicated. There's a reason for insulated RCA sockets, insulated BNC sockets and so on.

[@burski0954]

Excellent lecture :)

[@natriumhydrochlorid]

that all of this is free info is the best ever . thank you very much .

[@RelayComputer]

Thank you very much. Although I already applied some of the practical rules exposed here, this explanation of why we should apply them was really eye opening. The most surprising realisation is that bad effects start to happen at frequencies as low as just few kHz. Again many thanks !!

[@remy-]

Wow. This movie is ABSOLUTELY a must for pcb designers. Rick, thanks!!! Gr from Holland.

[@RajasPoorna]

Wow, thank you so much!!!!

[@projects4996]

Worth watching every single sec 👌

[@EngineerInTaipei]

Book of knowledge for beginners. A must-watch lecture.

[@kentvandervelden]

Wow, 2.5hrs of grounding awesomeness!

[@mrechbreger]

thank you for this video

[@conconmervin]

Brilliant!

[@dan5607]

Mind blowing content, basically tore apart years of "knowledge" in 2 hours!

[@chrispowder2713]

Rick, you are a f@#cking GENIUS, thank you so much!

[@nicolasgoldberg3114]

Amazing content Rick. Thank you it really helps with PCB design. Helped me get insight into design flaws with my pcbs.

[@TomLeg]

Phil's Lab sent me ... great presentation!

[@metaphysica9984]

Thats awesome! Im routing biards for many years, so much read, but never heard better.

[@gapguy9564]

@10:00 such an humble "Grounded" person. Love from INDIA

[@sajjadkarami872]

thanks for nice tips 🙂

[@nicoladellino8124]

Very nice video, TNX

[@sgct89]

Glad this video got released! My kids won't stop playing up and I've been needing to properly ground them

[@lordfabri]

this pure gold

[@pcdoodle1]

Really good video, I will use some of this information in our small company making gadgets.

[@DrTune]

Rick [if you ever come read this] - dude - that's awesome. So great. Get more of your knowledge out there, please, you do it well.

[@nameredacted1242]

He speaks at just about every major PCB design conference... if you can afford going to a conference.

[@Tutoelectro1]

Awesome talk, well worth it. Thank you very much! I wish there was a way for Altium to check this concepts in the DRC. Like have at least a warning when you route a signal between power planes, or when you split grounds, etc. Maybe this feature is somehow implemented and I'm not aware of it?

[@PulsedPower]

First of all thank you for making this content freely available! How does the traditional 2-layer “Manhattan” layout technique mesh with this information? It seems to me that you would be relegated to co-planar signal/return routing since by design current could NOT travel in the same direction on the bottom and top layers, which as you explain would be ideal. For reference I am just learning the basics of PCB layout design and am designing some fairly simple 2 layer boards. The “Manhattan” style layout technique was recommended for 2 layer designs at some point but now I am thinking it should be completely avoided!

[@KevinStoriesTV]

Great tutorial

[@stepannovotny4291]

Get through the first 10 minutes and then THIS BECOMES A FANTASTIC VIDEO FOR PCB DESIGN!

[@henrikvilhelmsen6299]

Thanks Rick. now i understand some of the problems there are in the model train world i have seen with marklin digital. I work with Eagle cadsoftware 9.6.2 - now and design pcb for my marklin digital layout. Best regards, Henrik Vilhelmsen - Dannemark.

[@aardrock]

Very interesting and valuable. I wonder if there is such a thing as “field-oriented or field-centered electronic design” that starts at fields and folds the design around that.

[@mdevidograndpacificlumbera1539]

I think the mind required to design circuits that way would be inconceivably smart. It's taken me 30 years to understand how electricity flows through a wire !! Lol

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Wow! Just Wow! mind blown.

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[@xeropulse5745]

This is absolutely brilliant information. I've only recently began studying electronic engineering during my master's, and this is brilliant supplementary info! Thank you so much Rick!

[@UltimateRobotics]

Energy transmitted in dielectric! That's the priceless part - many people talk about impedance and return currents, but that's the perfect and extremely simple explanation of _why_! Thanks!

[@TheVideoVolcano]

Meanwhile I say this too my principle digital engineer supervisor and he said it is nonsense. And also asked my RF/Microwave design engineer coworker and they said similar thing. I don't who to believe anymore....

[@UltimateRobotics]

@@TheVideoVolcano it's not a matter of faith - physics doesn't care about people's opinions :) Just ask yourself a question: how EM wave propagates here (hint: it's explained in the video but requires some knowledge to understand). If you would blindly trust the video without understanding what is happening, how will you apply it for actual PCB design anyway?

[@TheVideoVolcano]

@@UltimateRobotics unfortunately regardless of what I think, I will be forced to do it their way even if it wrong... it is annoying...

[@Dazza_Doo]

@@TheVideoVolcano They are wrong and I can prove it. Ask them How does the Electricity from the Power station get to their Home? The Cables are the Wave Guide, as the EM fields are OUTSIDE the wires travel 100's of Km/Miles - this is true because you move a wire next to the Power cable and get the EM energy to move into your wire. The Transmission Line System Proves this to accurate - have you seen the Veritasium videos on How Electricity Actually works? It's a Study of Electrodynamics. A Capacitor is a break in the circuit, nothing should cross it, but it does, why EM fields travelling though the wave guide. How does RF work? EM fields travelling though space/air meet up with a wave guide, called an antenna and we receive the signals. No Electron from the Power Plant makes it to your Home, All the Power is in the EM fields. Voltage and Amps are Measurements of the EM field. Did you watch the Play list?

[@alexpioner]

Genious video which can absolutely change the vision of the board design physics for many HW engineers. It's a pity that there is a big lag of video relatively to sound, and Altium hasn't fixed it. A little bit hard to follow.

[@jugnu361]

best on internet

[@mbeard117]

Great presentation Rick! There is a mechanical thickness requirement of 0.062" for a PCIe board-edge connector.

[@mach3turbo467]

Very nice lecture, it is a pity that subtitles are broken :(

[@FelipeBrittoAS]

That is just great.

[@user-eo9lz8oq5i]

Thank you

[@raymondklucik]

This video elicited a profound transformation in my cognitive framework, instigating an immediate and comprehensive shift in my understanding of signal (noise) propagation within the realm of circuit boards. Thank you!

[@rioschad3284]

it should be mandatory for every ee college student to watch this video

[@robv3872]

I agree! :)

[@remontlive]

Its a million dollars video, im a 38 years radio engineer and knew that all only now, energy is a field! now i got it.

[@KeesHessels]

man, my poor head...great presentation, extremely informative

[@MohamedMahmoud-df6uc]

Thanks for this awesome content! I didn't understand what you meant to route a layer in triplets. Would You explain?

[@Jonaspatzl]

I take it he meant that if traces don't have their return path directly in a ground plane below, you should route them like this: Signal - GND - Signal | Signal - GND - Signal ..... So every signal line has a ground return path directly ajacent.

[@Bestill_]

I feel like I need to erase and start over. Great content!!

[@berkaykahriman53]

Pouring copper on the same layer affects the impedance value of the trace. What is the necessary gap between copper pour and the signal on the same layer?

[@Ikkepop]

Mindblowing stuff, I learned alot of things that I should not do... now to figure out what the heck should I do instead XD

[@EgonFreeman]

@14:00 -- well, the water analogy still works here: the energy of a wave is neither in the height of the wave, nor in the speed of the wave; they're both _indicative_ of the energy originally _imparted_ to the wave, but the energy itself is _in the mass of the water molecules_