Calendar

Lectures are held MWF from 1-2:30 in 34-101, and labs are held in 38-500 on TR from 10-12, 12-2, or 2-4 depending on your lab section.

Creating a whole new class is hard! We're figuring out the due dates week-by-week, and modifying to see what works best for both you and us. This will change, and don't get too attached to anything you see here.

Week 1

1/9/23

  • Topics: Batteries, Motors, Power Flow, Design Process, Intro to PCB design
  • Lecture 01: Design as an Art + Process
  • Office Hours: 2:30PM-4:00PM @ 38-500
  • Assignment: Track 2 Project Proposals due Wednesday

1/10/23

  • Topics: Familiarity with altium, Basic Schematic + Layout
  • Lab 01: Introduction to Altium Designer
  • Office Hours: None
  • Assignment: Finish Lab + Submit to Altium 365 Workspace by WEDNESDAY before lecture!

1/11/23

  • Topics: parts of a PCB, component selection, bypass, datasheets, footprints, power ratings, power, seperation
  • Lecture 02: PCB Structure, Components, Schematic Capture
  • Office Hours: TBD
  • Assignment: Schematic of Speaker due TUESDAY, Design Review TUESDAY in lab, READ THE SCHEMATIC CAPTURE CASE STUDY FOR TOMORROW

1/12/23

  • Topics: go through the schematic of a complex board
  • Lab 02: Schematic Capture (Case Study) + speaker schematic work time
  • Office Hours: None
  • Assignment: Schematic of Speaker due TUESDAY, Design Review TUESDAY in lab

1/13/23

  • Topics: motors + motor control, FOC
  • Lecture X: Motors + Motor Control (Mandatory for Track 02!)
  • Office Hours: TBD
  • Assignment: Schematic of Speaker due TUESDAY, Design Review TUESDAY in lab

Week 2

1/16/23

  • MLK Day, no lecture!

1/17/23

  • Topics: soldering, reflow, practical skills
  • Lab 03: Soldering SMD components by hand

1/18/23

  • Topics: location of components, parastitics, impedance matching, differential pairs, ESD, flyback, filteration, debounce
  • Lecture 03: LAYOUT! Yay!

1/19/23

  • Layout Office Hours All Day!
  • Office Hours: 10AM-5PM @ 38-500

1/20/23

  • Topics: practical examples of layout, flyback + TVS, seperation of power and signal, custom footprints, exporting and ordering boards
  • Lecture 04: Layout from Scratch (Case Study)

Week 3

Track 1: Board layout due Thursday 1/26!

Track 2: Design reviews MWF 3-7pm, sign up for a slot with the Doodle poll on Piazza!

1/23/23

  • Topics: order of population, systematic debugging, tools for debugging, case study
  • Lecture 05: Population + Debugging

1/24/23

  • Topics: lab kits, population tools, debugging
  • Lab 4: Population + Debugging of PCBs

1/25/23

  • Topics: case study on debugging to reinforce process
  • Lecture 06: Layout Tutorial

1/26/23

  • Lab 4 Continued: Keep assembling boards if you’re not done populating, and start debugging if you are.

1/27/23

  • Lecture 07: Layout Commentary

Week 4

1/30/23

  • Lecture 08: Hardware’s Not Dead

1/31/23

  • Lab 4 Continued: General OH to get your bluetooth speakers up and running. Feel free to come around outside your lab section - we just want to help you get your stuff working :)

2/1/23

  • No lecture!
  • Party 01: Lobby 13 from 7-10PM, we’ll have some music, food, and good vibes. Y’all have done good work, and that’s worth celebrating.

2/2/23

  • Lab 4 Continued: General OH to get your bluetooth speakers up and running. Feel free to come around outside your lab section - we just want to help you get your stuff working :)

2/3/23

  • No class!