Robert Feranec Courses

OrCAD and Cadence Allegro PCB Editor - Step by Step for Beginners

Design a complete printed circuit board step by step in OrCAD and Allegro, from schematic symbols and footprints through routing and manufacturing outputs.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Designing a PCB Patch Antenna for WiFi and Bluetooth - KiCad - Philip Salmony

Design a WiFi and Bluetooth PCB patch antenna by calculating its dimensions, feed, impedance transformation, and transmission line in KiCad.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How Does Laser Work? Can You Build One at Home? - Zachariah Peterson

Explains how lasers generate and control light, from mirrors and semiconductor diodes to pulse circuits, while outlining what is involved in building one at home.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Build Your Own Box for a PCB Board Using Free Fusion 360 Software - Step by Step Tutorial

Design and 3D-print a custom enclosure for a circuit board in Fusion 360, with openings for connectors and mounting features.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Microcontroller in FPGA - Step by Step Tutorial - Adam Taylor

Build a MicroBlaze soft microcontroller in an FPGA, connect it to DDR3, VHDL logic, GPIO, and USB UART, and debug it.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

What Every PCB Designer Needs to Know About PCB Track Impedance - TDR - Eric Bogatin

Learn how TDR reveals impedance changes along PCB traces and explains reflections, differential-pair coupling, and high-speed signal behavior.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Learn to Fix EMC Problem Easily and in Your Lab - Troubleshooting Radiated Emissions

Troubleshoot radiated-emissions failures in a flyback power supply using lab measurements, a TEM cell, and targeted shielding and capacitor changes.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Many EMC Tips to Help You Design Better PCB Boards

Explore practical EMC techniques for PCB boards, including decoupling, filtering, shielding, guard rings, grounding, and board mounting.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Explaining Veritasium Electricity - Energy Doesn't Flow in Wires

An engineer explains why signals propagate along transmission lines—and how a cable stretching from Earth to the Moon changes when an LED turns on.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Setting Up DDR4 Memory Simulation - ADS - with Vandana Wylde

Set up LPDDR4/DDR4 memory simulations in Keysight ADS, from importing a PCB and defining its stackup to analyzing eye results and troubleshooting anomalies.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Design Boards and Electronics for Space

Design space-bound circuit boards by selecting components and validating them against radiation, vibration, thermal, EMC/EMI, ESD, and safety risks.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Starting with Fusion 360 - How It Works and What You Can Do There

An overview of Fusion 360’s parametric 3D modeling workflow, from editable sketches and assemblies to rendering, manufacturing, and 3D scanning.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Measuring EMC - Conducted Emissions

Learn to measure conducted electromagnetic emissions using spectrum analyzers, LISNs, oscilloscopes, and software while separating common-mode and differential-mode noise.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Create Difficult FPGA Designs with CPU, MCU, PCIE

Explores complex FPGA systems combining PCIe, embedded processors, Linux, and image-processing hardware with software drivers.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Small Things Damaging Your High Speed Signals

Explores how via stubs, fiberglass weave, signal skew, and copper roughness can degrade high-speed PCB signals, with measurements and layout examples.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video