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

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Board 2: PCB Ground Plane Analysis

PCB design to explore effects of Ground Planes using Hex Inverters

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Board 3: Golden Arduino Board

Custom PCB for Arduino using ATmega328

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Board 4: Instrument Droid

Thevenin Resistance/Voltage Measurement Droid with I2C

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