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Best RF Design Layout Practices

Duration: 30 minutes
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RF designs come with additional challenges and complexities that must be addressed. To create a functional RF design, best RF design layout practices should be followed. Best RF design layout practices include:

Implementing RF Design best practices will help to improve performance, achieve better signal isolation, and easily integrate analog and digital circuitry, RF components, sensors, and microcontrollers. The experts at Sierra Circuits and EMA Design Automation will walk you through best practices for RF design layout and provide in-depth knowledge and detailed demonstrations on how to design and analyze your RF PCBs with AWR.

In this webinar, you will learn the best RF design layout practices, including:

  • 5 design tips to build an efficient hybrid stackup
  • Suitable materials for a hybrid stackup
  • Bonding materials used for hybrid stackups
  • 4 fabrication challenges in building hybrid stackups
  • How Sierra Circuits can help you create reliable hybrid stackups
  • How the AWR design environment allows you to design and analyze your RF designs
  • Tips to achieve the best RF trace design
  • Types of transmission lines
  • Tips for power and ground planes in your RF designs
  • How to incorporate stitching vias in your RF designs
  • Tips for incorporating and routing decoupling capacitors

About the Presenters

Ernie Frohring - Application Engineer

Ernie began his career in electronic design and instrumentation, specializing in emulators and logic analyzers. Since then, he has leveraged his knowledge of hardware instrumentation to become experienced in the software tools used for electronic design. He has worked with various PCB layout, schematic capture, analog simulation, and signal integrity analysis tools, and is especially interested in the integration of these tools into a design environment. He currently specializes in RF and Digital simulation, doing presentations, and working one-on-one with customers using the EDA tools from Cadence and EMA Design Automation.
He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Bachelor’s & Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering. His hobbies include chasing Total Solar Eclipses to interesting parts of the world.

Amit Bahl - Chief Revenue Officer

Amit has been in the PCB industry for over 20 years. He is the Chief Revenue Officer at Sierra Circuits. His passion to empower tech companies to achieve their visions and change the world. Rockets going into space, self-driving cars taking up the streets, cancer-fighting medical devices, protecting the country, he’s ready to build any circuit board!

WEBINAR

Best RF Design Layout Practices

RF designs come with additional challenges and complexities that must be addressed. To create a functional RF design, best RF design layout practices should be followed. Best RF design layout practices include:

Implementing RF Design best practices will help to improve performance, achieve better signal isolation, and easily integrate analog and digital circuitry, RF components, sensors, and microcontrollers. The experts at Sierra Circuits and EMA Design Automation will walk you through best practices for RF design layout and provide in-depth knowledge and detailed demonstrations on how to design and analyze your RF PCBs with AWR.

In this webinar, you will learn the best RF design layout practices, including:

  • 5 design tips to build an efficient hybrid stackup
  • Suitable materials for a hybrid stackup
  • Bonding materials used for hybrid stackups
  • 4 fabrication challenges in building hybrid stackups
  • How Sierra Circuits can help you create reliable hybrid stackups
  • How the AWR design environment allows you to design and analyze your RF designs
  • Tips to achieve the best RF trace design
  • Types of transmission lines
  • Tips for power and ground planes in your RF designs
  • How to incorporate stitching vias in your RF designs
  • Tips for incorporating and routing decoupling capacitors
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Duration: 30 minutes
Download Slides

About the Presenters

Ernie Frohring - Application Engineer

Ernie began his career in electronic design and instrumentation, specializing in emulators and logic analyzers. Since then, he has leveraged his knowledge of hardware instrumentation to become experienced in the software tools used for electronic design. He has worked with various PCB layout, schematic capture, analog simulation, and signal integrity analysis tools, and is especially interested in the integration of these tools into a design environment. He currently specializes in RF and Digital simulation, doing presentations, and working one-on-one with customers using the EDA tools from Cadence and EMA Design Automation.
He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Bachelor’s & Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering. His hobbies include chasing Total Solar Eclipses to interesting parts of the world.

Amit Bahl - Chief Revenue Officer

Amit has been in the PCB industry for over 20 years. He is the Chief Revenue Officer at Sierra Circuits. His passion to empower tech companies to achieve their visions and change the world. Rockets going into space, self-driving cars taking up the streets, cancer-fighting medical devices, protecting the country, he’s ready to build any circuit board!

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