One-Day Power Delivery System Design Class

•Course Desciption
•Practical and Comprehensive
•Expert Instructor
•Major Topics
•How This Course Differs
•Who should take this course
•Prerequisites
•Why take this course
•About the instructor
•Course material
•Contact us

Speeding Edge is now offering a one-day power delivery system (PDS) design class as an on-site class. Today´s high-speed designs use a variety of power delivery components and successfully designing a PDS and the PCB into which is incorporated requires a thorough understanding of the overall power delivery system. In addition to reviewing the PDS components currently available; this course examines how to meet the conflicting goals of the PDS system and how to address power plane, impedance and overall system capacitance issues.

Practical and Comprehensive

As with the other courses offered by Speeding Edge, the PDS design class is structured to take the student through the entire PDS design process. The class begins with the goals of the PDS design process including how to arrive at a reliable design in the shortest amount of time and at the lowest cost possible with a minimal use of single-source suppliers and specialty components and materials. The course will also examine several real-world PDS designs to further illustrate the goals of the design process.

The materials and examples used in this course are drawn from actual designs of PDS systems in current manufacture. These examples range from subminature disc drives to terabit routers and supercomputers. The design process presented is based on many years of completing designs that are "right the first time". The goal of the course is for students to take the information learned in class and start applying it immediately to their designs-to trouble-shoot existing designs or incorporate into next-generation product iterations.

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Expert Instructor

Lee Ritchey is considered to be one of the industry´s premier authorities on high speed PCB and system design. He has participated in the design of more than 3000 high speed PCBs ranging from PC mother boards and elevator controllers to the backplanes used in terabit routers. He is currently involved in the design of several super computer class products as well as video games and servers of all kinds.

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Major Topics

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How This Course Differs From The Speeding Edge Two-Day High Speed PCB and System Design Course:

There is not adequate enough time in our two-day course to provide a complete treatment of all the topics that need to be addressed to design a stable power delivery system. Specifically, this new one-day course provides:

• A complete treatment of the various capacitor choices including their flaws and benefits
• A complete treatment of the on-PCB, on-package and on-die PDS issues that are required by today's complex, high-speed ASICs
• How to determine what loads look like
• Testing of the PDS to ensure proper operation in the completed PCB

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Who should take this course

This course is designed for all the participants in the design process. Among those who will find it valuable are:

Prerequisites

Any engineering professional who works with high speed design will understand the materials presented. No advanced mathematics are required.

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Why Take This Course

The speeds and power levels of current and future electronic products have changed to the point where techniques used in the past and commonly described in applications notes do not result in stable power delivery systems. To arrive at successful designs, engineers need to be fluent in the skills involved in designing the complete power delivery system. This one day course covers of all these skills along with many practical examples to provide a starting point for new designs.

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Instructor

LEE RITCHEY, BSEE, founder and president of Speeding Edge, is considered to be one of the industry"s premier authorities on high-speed PCB and system design. Prior to founding Speeding Edge, Ritchey served as program manager at 3Com Corporation where he managed a corporate-wide signal integrity group responsible for the design rules used to develop high performance networking equipment such as routers and switches. Before that, he managed a development team at Maxtor Corporation, a developer of high performance disc drives. He was co-founder of Shared Resources, a design services company specializing in the design of high-end supercomputers, work stations and imaging products. He began his career as a microwave engineer on the Apollo program.

He is currently providing signal integrity engineering services to several network equipment manufacturers as well as a supercomputer project with 110,000 processors and data links running at 5.2 GB/S. He has taught high speed design courses since 1992.

In 2004, Ritchey was a regular columnist for EE Times and he has written many articles on high speed design for trade publications such as EDN, Circuitree and PC Design. He is the author of the book, "Right the First Time, A Practical Handbook on PCB and System Design, Volume 1" published by Speeding Edge in 2003. He recently completed Volume 2 of Right The First Time, A Practical Handbook on High Speed PCB and System Design.

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Course Materials

The course fee includes a copy of the course slides and copy of the books "Right the First Time, A Practical Handbook on High Speed PCB and System Design, Volumes 1 and 2." Signed course certificates for each student completing the course will also be provided.

Contact Us

To learn more about this course and to schedule as an on-site class at your facility, please contact us by e-mail at info@speedingedge.com or by telephone at 707-568-3983.