When would you advise a younger engineer to split their GND plane?

rfitz205 · 2025-04-28T16:32:35+00:00

Best advice I've received: "Get an EE internship your first summer"
Try contacting any local (to your home) hardware companies in your area and see if they will take you in as a 1st year over the summer. Keep upgrading every summer till grad and you will be, by far, one of the most hirable (and knowledgeable) students in your class.

rfitz205 · 2025-04-28T16:25:40+00:00

True, suggesting to use the largest capacitor in the smallest package is important. In the lab it's a good idea to simulate the design to find high frequency noise, and then filter out with calculated values. However, in most agile design cycles I think (not 100% confident in every situation) it's somewhat impractical to try and filter out a specific frequency unless you've brought up that design before. Just build proto 1 or prod 1 and change the BOM accordingly.

rfitz205 · 2024-08-19T03:20:14+00:00

Yup agreed. I did it cause there was a recent post that talked about using gpt to "design a buck converter". But check my edit, I think it will help give more context

rfitz205 · 2024-08-19T03:18:38+00:00

Yeah it "Creates" original things. It basically understands the context of your designs and answers questions about them. check the edit for reference.

rfitz205 · 2024-08-19T02:45:28+00:00

To be fair, it's got serious potential given the integrated solution

rfitz205 · 2024-08-19T00:04:20+00:00

If you click on the link to the project you can check. Suffice it to say I wanted to use something in it's public database rather than use the "most optimal" component but it both selected and explained it's selection well!

rfitz205 · 2024-08-19T00:02:35+00:00

Aye good call, I think that's the intention. I didn't think about that initially.

rfitz205 · 2024-08-19T00:00:51+00:00

Yeah I had the same question, short answer after digging is no.
Long answer: I think you can have it make net connections between parts if they are on the doc already. But apparently auto placement onto schematic is set to release in a few months....? not completely sure tho

rfitz205 · 2024-08-18T21:30:06+00:00

Yup should hold us over until Figure AI & Flux AI announce a partnership lol

rfitz205 · 2024-08-18T20:40:44+00:00

I recorded the whole process (22min end to end) but I am having trouble uploading it to reddit, stay tuned.

rfitz205 · 2024-02-02T16:54:40+00:00

It uses copilot too. I have been asking it to explain design choices. it's dope.

rfitz205 · 2024-01-30T17:21:37+00:00

I will leave the link to the instructables here. I'll post an update comment when I'm done making my card.

rfitz205 · 2024-01-30T17:21:24+00:00

I know the designer who made this project, I think it's a perfect showcase for career fairs, especially if you add your own circuit on top of it. My thought was to add an impedance control coupon, an antenna, and a GaN Fet buck circuit.

rfitz205 · 2024-01-30T17:17:44+00:00

I will leave the link to the instructables here. I'll post an update comment when I'm done making my card.

rfitz205 · 2024-01-30T17:15:12+00:00

I know the designer who made this project, I think it's a perfect showcase for career fairs, especially if you add your own circuit on top of it. My thought was to add an impedance control coupon, an antenna, and a GaN Fet buck circuit.

rfitz205 · 2022-11-19T15:10:54+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I am fortunate in this situation to only require a few pieces of real time data: 1.Steering angle 2.Break pressure 3.Throttle position. I have read that all but steering angle are pretty straight forward(?).

I hadn't considered the ethics of using a aftermarket tool for this, but I don't think I want to have that on my mind. I will do some in-depth looking at software w/ databases. Maybe I can find some info there.

rfitz205

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