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A project log for FCThermostat: Another overengeneered IOT device

A new way of thinking to a IOT thermostat:

nicolNicolò 08/24/2018 at 15:030 Comments

Hi, right now My main PC is DOWN due to a failure on my graphics card. I think that some memory chip is fried!

Talking about memory I finally madeout how to route the memory lines for the DDR3 IC I'm using.

All the work done so far has been made on Circuit Maker. But I wanted to test out Altium Designer. So I just downloaded the trial and imported my project.

I tried out X-Signals and some other functions like the active routing but I'm not able to wake them work. Or at least not like on the advertisements videos...

You can take a look of the work I'm doing now. I'm still learning how the impedance control works: because on my calculations I get a track too wide to be routed under the BGA balls!

Now I'm trying to compress the power section, the power driver of the EPDand the USB protection circuit. So I can finally try to lenght match the tracks of memory. Now I have no space! (The pcb has 8 layers but it's not big enough)


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