ECEN5730: PCB Design
Printed circuit board design reports from from ECEN 5730.
This page includes reports for PCB created for ECEN5730 at CU Boulder for Fall 2025.
These projects were shared with instructor (Prof. Tim Swettlen) approval. All PCB designs were done on Altium Designer. Prof. Bogatin’s Youtube playlist regarding Altium designer can be found here.
Some topics covered in this class include:
- Basic circuit lab equipment use (Oscilloscope, Signal Generators, Multimeter)
- Good PCB design techniques (PDNs, ground planes, routing, etc.)
- Assembly, debugging and analyzing PCB
- Decoupling Capacitors, Crosstalk, Loop Inductance, Differential Signals
- Sensors, Microcontroller Programming, I2C, and ADC
Board 1: 555 Timer Circuit
Simple PCB show-casing 555 Timer Circuit, with Signal Integrity Analysis
View articles →Board 2: PCB Ground Plane Analysis
PCB design to explore effects of Ground Planes using Hex Inverters
View articles →Board 3: Golden Arduino Board
Custom PCB for Arduino using ATmega328
View articles →Board 4: Instrument Droid
Thevenin Resistance/Voltage Measurement Droid with I2C
View articles →