How Complex Motherboards Are Designed

What is on motherboards and server boards, how they work and how they are designed. Explained by Istvan Nagy Links: - Istvan’s Book: - FEDEVEL courses: Other links: - Istvan’s calculators and QUCS templates: - Open Compute project server and switch card designs: - TopJtag Probe software: - Istvan’s website and FPGA card: - The Open Hardware Repository Chapters: 00:00 What is this video about 00:49 What is a complex design 08:22 PC Motherboard described 12:39 Power 16:03 Power states 21:10 Laptop vs. Standard PC 23:07 Thermal management 27:06 I2C 29:33 Memories and timing 39:25 x86 vs. other architectures 42:06 Industrial motherboards 45:30 Backplanes 47:38 High speed signals, signal integrity, simulations 54:39 QUCS simulator 56:23 SPI, JTAG 58:32 How many schematic pages and what is there 1:01:40 SERDES 1:06:43 Power supplies 1:18:19 Reliability issues, testing and measuring 1:24:29 Debugging 1:29:40 PCB materials 1:33:06 Floor planning 1:37:54 You power it up and it doesn’t work 1:45:02 Measuring by probes 1:47:20 Open Compute Project OPC 1:49:15 Istvan’s book ------------------------------------------------------ Would you like to support me? It’s simple: - Sign up for online courses hosted on our platform: - You can also support me through Patreon: - FEDEVEL Discord: It is much appreciated. Thank you, - Robert