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USB PCB Business Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Step 1: Circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Step 3: Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Step 4: Artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Author:frank26080115
Frank's Projects
I'm an electrical engineering student at the University of Waterloo.
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1. regular sized business card
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Step 1: Circuit
The circuit is based on V-USB's recommended circuitry. It's powered by the 5V from the USB port. There's two 68 ohm resistors, one on each of the USB data lines,
these act as terminating resistors which suppress reflected signals. There is a 1.8 kilo ohm resistor on the D+ line, which allows the computer to detect when something
connects to the USB port, and it identifies the device as a low speed device. Two Zener diodes with Vz of 3.6V are on the data lines to clamp the voltage on those lines.
There is a 0.1 uF capacitor between the 5V and GND as a decoupling capacitor.
Since the business card should be a compact and thin design, 0604 surface mount packaging is selected for most of the components. The diodes are Mini MELF
packaging (they look cool in my opinion).
The microcontroller is an ATtiny85, which is a 8 pin AVR microcontroller. The SOIC package version is chosen to keep the design compact and thin.
To program the microcontroller, in-circuit serial programming is used, which requires the signals: reset, SCK, MOSI, MISO, along with power and ground. The SCK and
MOSI are exposed by the USB connector, while two pads are provided for the MISO and reset signals. This allows for a programming adapter to be made.
The created connector component is placed onto the PCB layout. The dimension layer must be a continuous line that follows the outline of the business card and the
connector. The dimension layer is what the manufacture will follow when milling your PCB outline.
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Step 3: Layout
Layout the component as shown, or you can be creative, as long as your layout matches the circuit. For low speed USB, you don't have to worry too much about how the
traces are layed out. For high speed designs, you should try to keep the differential D+ and D- signals together and away from noise, but our design is low speed.
Make it look nice! Personally, I like seeing symmetry, parallel or perpendicular angles, and even spacing, but that's my personal preference. You might like curves,
abstractness, and chaos. This is all personal preference.
Step 4: Artwork
For my design, I placed my name and some instructions using the text tool in Eagle CAD.
The tStop and bStop layers in Eagle control the soldermask. Soldermask will not be present on the areas covered by tStop or bStop. The "t" and "b" mean "top" and
"bottom. This fact can be used to your advantage.
Remember that areas with copper and soldermask will look light green, areas with no copper but with soldermask will look dark green, areas with no copper and with no
soldermask will look sort of yellowish. Also remember that more light will go through if the bottom layer is uncovered.
Area with no soldermask but with copper will become tinned. This will be silver if you get your board tinned with regular tin or lead solder. If you want to spend more
money, you can ask the PCB manufacture for gold plating instead.
On my own card, you can see that I've placed my own name in both the top copper layer and the tStop layer, thus creating the silver text effect by placing text under an
area without any soldermask.
You can also ask the manufacture for other colours aside from green. Here is my friend's University of Waterloo PCB Ruler, created with black solder mask and gold
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Please be aware of the file that your bitmap layer goes into! If you select the bitmap layer in the copper gerber file, then the bitmap will become a part of the PCB's
copper. If you select the bitmap layer in the silkscreen gerber file, then the bitmap will become a part of the PCB's silkscreen.
Please use a Gerber file previewing tool before sending it off to manufacturing. I personally use Gerbv http://gerbv.sourceforge.net/
For kicks, I also made some non-USB business cards/keychains, see picture above (I forgot why I blurred the picture). The smaller size made these dirt cheap.
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Put some solder on one pad, keep heating that pad and move the component into that pad, make sure it's aligned correctly, then remove the heat and let the first joint
cool. Then you are able to solder the 2nd joint very easily.
Remember, flux can make the difference between a fun project and quitting the electronics hobby. I suggest you get a flux pen.
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