How To Design a Breakout Board | JLCPCB | Altium Designer - Phil's Lab #35

[@DiegoColl44]

A few days ago I commented in a youtube video that it would be good to see a tutorial on how to use the JLCPCB assembly service using Altium. And you explained it perfectly in this video. Thanks.!

[@PhilsLab]

Awesome, thank you for watching!

[@robby091000]

Thanks Phil, i been learning Altium design for a few weeks now and my guide had been your videos on KiCad design, I'm glad now you have a basics tutorial for Altium and maybe in the future you can make a more advance tutorial

[@isaacclark9825]

Is everybody else in the same boat I am in? I had some great ideas for some projects after following Phil over the past year. But there simply aren't too many ways to get a hold of really fast processors right now. It is a good time to play around with Altium and KiCad. I do have a bunch of barely touched development boards laying around. But I want to make something now... that's really smart... and fast... starting yesterday. Maybe pull an Stm32H7 off of a development board? Must resist.., I have some ideas about how to spend the time until processors become available. Good time to play with some development boards, learn a new processor, maybe write some drivers and abstraction layers. But were talking about a year or two? Okay, I am not blaming Phil. If he just did not make this stuff so interesting, I could learn to paint.

[@sakshigalphade1376]

This video is so good, everything was explained in detail.

[@MatchaMakesThings]

Thanks Phil this was incredibly helpful!

[@CollinBaillie]

Phil, I’m no engineer, but the FOGA board sounds interesting. I have filled in the survey to the level I can. Hope you go a long way with it and the course.

[@PhilsLab]

Thank you very much, Collin!

[@MahatmaMichael]

Phil, if you share your own handy schematic and footprint libraries - where to find it? Warm greetings. Michael 🌿🌿🌿🌻🌻

[@hendrik2765]

Hey man love your videos, you have brought me into PCB design and I am currently designing my first Hard board using a STM32MP157F MPU. I have learned lots from you and gotten the basics of everything to start implementing RAM chips, NAND flash, 1 GBit ETH. All of this would have been possible without you.

[@PhilsLab]

Thank you, Hendrik! I’m very glad to hear that. Hope all goes well with your project :)

[@eledikohabib3369]

Hi Philips...can you show the process of hand cutting your castellated holes PCB?🙂...

[@sakshigalphade1376]

Thankyou for making this one, helped a lot for my project.

[@PhilsLab]

Thank you, Sakshi - very glad to hear that!

[@sepehrsaberi4360]

How do we not have to use all of them individually on the PCB when we are going to connect 72 LEDs on the board? Is there a way to make one LED work like 72 LEDs on the schematic?

[@axelriet]

What do you think of 0 ohm resistors to jump over traces instead of vias and routing to some other layer? Case in point the IMU_INT @18:31. The resistor/jumper is not free but in some case it might save a layer, avoid splitting the ground plane, or keep everything on the same layer etc.

[@rusticagenerica]

Would have been really cool if you had mentioned the price odf Altium Designer, and also, the final physical PCB juste for pleasure.

[@thekaduu]

Nice... My workflow with Eagle + OSHPark much less complicated (Not the AutoDesk Eagle... The old school one). Sounds to me like JLCPCB needs to accept the files.

[@Hammad5113189]

Hi Phil. Love your videos and I was able complete a huge part of my thesis because of your videos about KiCAD. I plan to use Xilinx Zynq FPGA as an update to my project. Please let us know if you plan to make KZbin videos involving it like you made of STM32/KiCAD. Much love!

[@PhilsLab]

Thank you very much, I'm glad to hear that! Yes, I'll be covering certain aspects of the hardware design - hopefully will have a overview video out at the end of this month.

[@Hammad5113189]

@@PhilsLab Looking forward to it :)

[@engsam7759]

when you draw the outline , assume the thickness is 0.5mm . does the manufacturer cut inside or outside or middle of this outline ? because i need the board to be of a specific dimensions

[@rahuls7039]

@Phil's Lab - Please provide an update on whether this board works or not? I tried to get an output ( _also using a level shifter breakout board_ ) using Arduino Uno with available code in GitHub but the result is static and not working. It would be great to know whether this is a design fault or the OEM's ( _not JLCPCB_ ) manufacturing fault.

[@rusticagenerica]

Why weren't the components placed on the board automatically at 14:00?

[@pietrogagliano4484]

Hey Phil love your videos as always, was just curious what happened to the audio board coded pcb design course I haven’t heard about that one in a while. I know you must be very busy so no rush at all was just curious. Thank you as always.

[@pietrogagliano4484]

Also can’t wait for the fpga course that’s really the next area I want to go into for developing my skill set as an engineer and also the integration of Ethernet and peripherals of that sort seems very interesting.

[@PhilsLab]

Hey Pietro, I've kinda pivoted away from the audio board towards this FPGA board, which also contains some mixed-signal elements. It's taken me much longer than expected though to make all of this - been rather busy with all sorts of work!

[@Gruftgrabbler]

Hey Phil. Thank you for the videos. I‘m new to Altium (coming from KiCAD). I was always confused why there are no generic components like in KiCAD. Do you have created the generic components on your own? Are you willing to share them? EDIT: After trying to follow your tutorial and do a breakout board on my own I realised that its pretty much impossible to place a simple capacitor like you did in altium... What is this? Is altium a sort of joke? Why is it so complicated to just put a regular cap in the schematic??!?!? Thanks and greetings 🖖

[@PhilsLab]

Hi David, Getting to grips with Altium after having used KiCAD for a while does take some attempts. Initially, I was also quite hesitant regarding the library system - but it's something you will quickly get used to. I may publish my libraries to GitHub so everyone can use them and will let you know when I do so.

[@Gruftgrabbler]

@@PhilsLab thank you. I managed to do some tutorials on Altium. But yeah coming from the KiCAD workflow it’s really a hassle

[@Masudrana-vi7sy]

​@@PhilsLab waiting for the libraries. Thanks in advance.

[@AtulKumar-tp8hd]

Can you make small video for one layer pcb ?i will do etching at my home.

[@krushna.kalathiya]

Hey Phil, We are waiting for Library that you used in this project. Please give update on this. Much love😍. Learning from You.

[@miore580]

Nice video. Short question: Is it good practice to put an additional ground layer on top of the pcb (at some points connected to the bottom gnd layer by vias)?

[@josefonseca9178]

Thanks for the video Phil. Just one short question: How do you link a schematic to a board file and vice-versa? For instance, if i have multiple brd and sch files, how would i do it?

[@aatifshah8476]

Amazing work

[@PhilsLab]

Thank you!

[@yamanseyravan4387]

Just perfect !, thanks a lot

[@magnus-j]

350 USD/month or 10.000 USD for a perpetual license... Yikes! Way out of reach for hobbyists.

[@PhilsLab]

Yeah, for hobbyist's it's not the best choice. However, for students (discounted price) or people wishing to pursue PCB design/hardware design as a career, Altium Designer (or similar tools) will be a very useful tool to know and is used a lot in the industry.

[@AtulKumar-tp8hd]

Lol i use for free student version rocks ✌🏻

[@Transitooooor]

Hey Phil I am trying to learn the basics of Altium but am struggling I followed along with this but had heaps of errors and I do not know why. Struggling for the past 4 days! could you make an absolute beginner video? covering the grid controls etc? or what resource would you recommend this was good but missed steps such as when you routed it.

[@TnInventor]

will you be willing to share your Altium libraries?

[@Elektronikchannel]

Nice video...

[@enginstud8852]

Have you made your PCB course yet ?

[@PhilsLab]

It's unfortunately taking me quite some time to finish the PCB design course, so it isn't out yet I'm afraid!

[@AtulKumar-tp8hd]

Hey i also use altium designer but footprints Library sucks, can you share your footprint and symbol library? It will really help me to do my project work. Thank you :)

[@rafalzasada8826]

On JLC PCB website I have found advice "Please make sure you have the clear outline in mechanical layer." Is it still OK without any mechanical layer?

[@PhilsLab]

I always export a 'board outline' layer, which is included in the Gerber ZIP.

[@Luke_Ainsworth]

Hey mate, Love these videos. I understand the sponsorship by Altium helps you out. This is way out of a hobbyist's budget though :( Any chance you could continue to mix in some kicad tutorials? Keep up the great work!

[@PhilsLab]

Hey Luke, Thank you! Yeah, more KiCad stuff to come as well - I'll try to keep a good mix :)

[@isaacclark9825]

The datasheet appeared to indicate that SPI was a possible communications interface. Did I err?

[@PhilsLab]

The datasheet is for both MPU-6000 (SPI & I2C) and MPU-6050 (I2C only).

[@isaacclark9825]

@@PhilsLab Thanks. I can see that in the datasheet now that you have pointed it out. Thanks for the quick response and the really cool tutorial.

[@Hammad5113189]

Hi Phil which one did you find better in terms of user interface and faster designing: KiCAD or Altium?

[@PhilsLab]

Hi Hammad, I (even though being sponsored) much prefer Altium these days.

[@panelty8379]

kicad has a big advantage. it doesnt cost couple thousend of dollars to get a lisence

[@CarlosRochaTX]

if someone figures out how to get one of these gyroscopes onto a breakout board that fits inside a skateboard truck lmk

[@OneThatDied]

I’m new to altium but I am so passionate about this. How do I learn all the tools in the program. It’s so dense Also could you consider having your library for download

[@PhilsLab]

Robert Feranec (Fedevel) has many courses on Altium Designer all the way from the beginning. I'll see if I can make my libraries public. :)

[@BS-my2ky]

@@PhilsLab Robert's videos are really hard to follow. It's raw and uneditted plus his accent is too strong.

[@isaacclark9825]

@@BS-my2ky I have found it to be worth the effort.

[@PampostReturning]

Thank you 💖.

[@PhilsLab]

Thank you for watching :)

[@andr27]

Whats the cost of altium?

[@alxcuisine9575]

A kidney per year...

[@unclejoe8310]

400 dollars per month. I dont understand why people make youtube videos for software that cant be afforded from any non business entity. Its not like thousands of engineers from S&P 500 companies will watch these videos and re enact them.

[@markadyash]

Hi Phil

[@PhilsLab]

Hello :)

[@mrechbreger]

and then .... mill it, isolation milling.