learning_resources.md

Learning Resources

Programming

Source Code Control and Git

• Interactive / Game Style Git Tutorial

Computer Graphics

• Premultiplied Alpha / Beware of Tranparent Pixels

Electronics

Useful Libraries and Programs

• JLCKicadTools - Useful if using Kicad + JLCPCB's assembly service

PCB Manufacturing and Assembly

• Aisler PCB manufacture and Assembly - Prototype quantity PCBs manufactured/assembled in Europe or the US (2 or 4 layer)
• OSHPark - PCBs manufactured in the US (ENIG only, 4 layer, flex)
• JLCPCB - PCBs manufactured/assembled in China
• PCBWAY - PCBs manufactured/assembled in China

Youtube Channels

• https://www.youtube.com/c/MicroTypeEngineering

PCB Design

Grounding & Return Paths

• Altium - How to achieve proper grounding
  • found from this twitter post by jonoxer
  • Also see What Every PCB Designer Should Know - Return Current Path (with Eric Bogatin) Explanation about return currents for both single-ended and differential signals

Misc

• Altium - How to design Castellated Modules - OnTrack Whiteboard Series
• Renesas - Detecting Bus Signals Correctly with Failsafe Biased RS-485 Receivers

Electromagnetic Compatability (EMC, EMI, ESD)

• "Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering", by Henry W. Ott

Embedded Linux

• Device Tree for Dummies! - Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons

STM32

• Tutorial: Timers and PWM (and a cheeky AM radio transmission) using STM32CubeIDE

MCUBoot

• MCUboot Walkthrough and Porting Guide (Interrupt)
• Updating device firmware using DFU in Zephyr Project on a FRDM-K64F board